Maria Hinojosa: You really also talk about something that we don’t often talk about, certainly not in the Latino community, which is depression. Depression in general, depression in Latinos, depression in immigrants, depression in men. You put that out there, too.
John Leguizamo: I thought it was important to be as vulnerable about that, especially because we Latin dudes, we got the macho thing going on, but we’re a lot more involved than we get credit for, also. Especially modern Latin men, we’re much more vocal. When I hang out with my friends, my friends are all about my age, most of them are from my high school, and so we talk about a lot of stuff, man. We get really deep, and we talk about stuff that, I don’t know if our dads had that ability, or that language, or that permission. But definitely it’s better to know that Latin men, we get depressed. We cry like everybody else. And it’s okay. And it’s better than okay. The only way to survive life is to be as vulnerable as possible.
-conversation from NPR’s Latino USA with Maria Hinojosa, May 13, 2011
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