Danny Trejo joins cast of From Dusk Till Dawn on El Rey Network

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Submitted by Mike 'Ace' Maillaro on Thu, 03/12/2015 - 11:22

I saw this story on Lucha Underground's Facebook feed.

Danny Trejo was announced as joining the cast of El Rey's From Dusk Till Dawn series. Sadly, we don't get El Rey by me, but I love Robert Rodriguez, so I've been wanting to see this series for a while. I have been considering subscribing to Sling just so I can more easily follow From Dusk Till Dawn and Lucha Underground.

I have always had a love for lesser known actors...you know, those guys you've seen in many movies, but you don't know their names. Well, I take the time to learn their names, and Danny Trejo has been one of my favorites for a while (I should do a column on some of my favorites...including Tina Majorino, Andre Braugher, Peter Stormore, and Clancy Brown). Danny Trejo has appeared in around 200 different roles, including doing voice work. He even had a brilliant cameo in the Muppet's Most Wanted as a prisoner in a Russian Gulag...named Danny Trejo.

Danny Trejo was in all three From Dusk Till Dawn movies (I actually never saw the third one), so it's appropriate that he is joining the cast of the series. I am hoping his character is named Razor Danny (in the movies he played characters named Razor Charlie and Razor Eddie). He is also Robert Rodriguez's cousin, which is why he shows up in so many of his movies and now TV series. Trejo also appeared in a few episodes of Lucha Underground, also on the El Rey network.

Here is the video they showed to announced this awesome news: