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Benicio Del Toro Trivia
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- Because of his pay-or-play deal on the film, he was paid $5 million for the doomed "American Gangster" project (set to begin filming in October 2004), which was to star Denzel Washington and be directed by Antoine Fuqua.
- Passionate about oil painting.
- Burned himself with cigarettes repeatedly for the elevator scene in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" because the real Oscar Zeta Acosta did as well. The shots of the burn were cut.
- In 2001, became the fourth Oscar winner (Best Supporting Actor, Traffic (2000)) to play a character that mostly spoke in a foreign language (most of his dialogue was in Spanish).
- Third Puerto Rican Actor to win an Academy Award. The other two were: Rita Moreno (West Side Story) and Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac).
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