Actor Michael Peña and John Leguizamo explore Chicago’s Little Village

[@FaithandFamily2012]

So proud of Peña , never knew he was from little village so happy to see someone representing us in a positive way.

[@SteveTorres-lq3cp]

Yeah but he's a Scientologist 🤦🙅

[@caring-assoul_]

He represents Scientology not Raza😏👎🏼.

[@cristianrivas3475]

Love this guy. Great representation of us first generation Mexicans. We have similar stories

[@OskieOmega]

Same here growing up here in the late 80s

[@hernandezgg8720]

First generation chicano, you probably meant to say

[@hernandezgg8720]

@Roxy_Penny8889 you're from the country you were born. If you was born into the US, you're not mexican

[@hernandezgg8720]

@Roxy_Penny8889 even if your parents are mexicans

[@chicanoinparadise]

@@hernandezgg8720lol, no he didn’t. He meant first Generation American.

[@martinez209]

Thank you Michael Peña for making us Chicanos proud and playing the guy's character I grew uo with in east stockton Jose Hernandez. You did his character justice. 🇲🇽🇺🇲

[@eg395]

I grew up in Little Village, Chicago and I appreciate you coming back to your roots. One thing I was proud of in the movie “Fury”, you asked the new kid where was he from. You asked him if he was from Chicago. Thanks for representing Chicago bro!

[@mickeynewlin]

Puerto Ricans & Mexicans united, I LOVE IT

[@derekkase7884]

John Languizamo is Puerto Rican and Colombian

[@LocoMenteClaraOne]

And Colombians Viva La Raza

[@akaiseigo]

But don't sit them close in a football match.

[@LocoMenteClaraOne]

@@akaiseigo Football meaning futbol? Not a real issue I'd day don't sit them close in a boxing match if and when the opponents are Mexican and Puerto Rican 😂

[@jesv4026]

​@@LocoMenteClaraOneMexican boxers own Puerto Rican boxers

[@rosariogaytan5852]

I had no idea Michael Pena is from Chicago!!! Wow!!! I'm from Brighton Park and totally want to be a chicana in film , I loved you in a million miles away

[@ILWU4Ever2024]

I’m from Los Angeles and I have family that lives in Chicago. One of the best cities in America! 🤙🏼

[@ArcadiosMarino]

It was beautiful now is full of scams Venezuela's destroying Chicago 😢

[@eg395]

Im also from Chicago and when I visited LA and I felt so at home.

[@Danny-fs1hk]

Chicago’s own Michael Peña! Stand & Deliver was an excellent film too.

[@6demon6gang63]

Was just in little village yesterday getting food and some alcohol and i gotta say as someone who speaks very little spanish but enough to kinda get by, everyone was very supportive and helped me out a lot and there was so much culture there and so many local entrepreneurs and its gotta be one of my favorite areas around chicago by far

[@chicanoinparadise]

I’m also first Generation American. Straight up Chicano. Straight from the Pico Union Killings fields of the 90’s. Most my homies are dead, druggies or locked up. It’s good to see other Chicanos being a good example for our youth. Much love Michael and thanks MSNBC For the upload.

[@PraiseOnMyLips]

New sub

[@David-um4dy]

Puro Psycho Realm

[@dalzvert9206]

if you from Chicago and from other areas from the Midwest then you’re not Chicano unless you’re Mexican-American but they don’t consider themselves as such outside of the Southwest. From what I see, Chicanos are seemingly only from the Southwestern US and they’re the only ones whom claims that identity

[@JulioRodriguez-dn9kf]

@@dalzvert9206 I think they’re in denial cause they arent chicano not even in the slightest

[@odiamemas1313]

@@dalzvert9206 being a Chicano has nothing to do with the region you were born in. If you were born in the US and come from Mexican descent then you’re a Chicano; I say that as someone who was born in Texas

[@Milofchg]

As a patron of Atotonilco's Chicago Little Village since it opened in 1977 (when I was 6 yrs old) I still go there. It's nice to see the family still kept everything as it should. Great to see some of the older family members (owners wife, sister) remember my family and I when we get a chance to go there. Very little has changed in 46 years in that establishment which is a good thing. This was one of the first Mexican restaurants in Little Village, maybe the first east of Central Park ave for sure back in the 70's. The best tacos Al Pastor in Chicago. The best Horchata's (rice water), and the best ham Tortas outside Mexico City. This place set the standard on how tacos are prepared in Chicago. Most taco establishments try to emulate Atotonilco's.

[@josemariabaquero8204]

Atotonilco taqueria is my favorite taquería in the world. I haven’t found better tasting tacos anywhere, not even in Mexico.

[@dustywagon298]

The Al pastor tacos are world class

[@josemariabaquero8204]

@@dustywagon298 Been to hundreds of taquerias throughout Mexico and I have not found better tasting pastor.

[@eg8580]

You should try the adobada/al pastor from TJ.

[@dustywagon298]

@@josemariabaquero8204 fr me too. I go to Mexico every other month for work. Nothing comes close

[@MrDinglin2694]

Mexicans and Colombians always get along No doubt 🇲🇽 🇨🇴

[@raycontreras422]

Leguizamo is PUERTORICAN.

[@curtisbradley5171]

Leguizamo is Colombian, he was born in Bogota, grew up with Boricuas in Queens.​@raycontreras422

[@antoniobanderas9769]

@@raycontreras422Colombiano

[@highlymysteriousplayer9694]

in your dreams mexico need to build a border wall in the south of mexico

[@caring-assoul_]

Lies😂

[@Robd07]

I love Michael Pena! Awesome actor whose done a lot of roles! 30 seconds or less was real funny!

[@jessevalencia9689]

What a great episode! We need more of these two gentlemen. I’m originally from Joliet and we would go to taqueria Atotonilco on 26th street as a kid with my family.

[@DannyMartinezMusic]

Love these two guys together. So proud of our Latinidad! So much to be proud of! Felicidades!

[@alejandrogarcia3694]

I love going to Little Village. I have family there and it's nice to be around the Raza. Reminds me of back home at el DF. Barrio Mexicano

[@MrLeecho]

This was so wonderful to see, what a shame it was not displayed to a major audience.

[@orlandovega6958]

My parents were migrants. Grew up on southside chicago. Made it out 11 years ago and now in college and three beautiful kids. Stay strong brothers.

[@eddieelprimoflores5620]

Much love to the both of them.there both really good actors and it's nice to see that they came to the barrrio.

[@SierenH]

Stand and Deliver is one of my favorite movies.

[@brianh2176]

Wow, KZbin.....why isn't this more popular? Why are you hiding this?

[@treyoftriphorya]

Bc he didn’t go to Farragaut and bc he didn’t wanna take a pic a Chuy garcias B**** a**

[@MariaHernandez-jd2bi]

I was raised in Little Village back in the late 60's and early 70's. Worked on 26th street.

[@mikelopez9817]

Love these two talented gentlemen, would be great to see them in the same movie!

[@demelom2596]

I’m just glad that I’m able to understand what they are saying without the subtitles.

[@NoshirtNickJohnson]

These two need to make a movie together...I love Them! 🎥💯

[@wendyalvarado8626]

I didn’t knew I needed this collaboration, but I need more! There so funny together 😂

[@jaymartinez8208]

(Stand And Deliver 1988) Was A Great Movie About The Raza That Inspired Our Youth The Previous Generation And You Could Tell That Michael Peña Inspired The Next Generation Of Raza With The Great Professor And Philosopher In The Film (Walkout 2006) And (Caesar Chavez 2014) Based On True Stories About Raza Overcoming The Struggle. I WILL FOREVER BE THANKFUL FOR FILMS LIKE THAT, THANK YOU! 💪🏽😎

[@sirenloud]

The chemistry these two guys have I want to see a buddy cop movie comedy

[@eg395]

A funny cop movie would be awesome.

[@MegaLBreezy]

Pena already did Last of Watch, but put these 2 in something!

[@thomengel9720]

Two of my favorite actors.

[@ChilliChilo]

I did not know Michael pena was from Chicago wow😮

[@Splatpope]

it's always nice seeing twin brothers spend a nice evening together

[@Nunyabznis]

Had me at Peña then added a Leguizamo? Awesome.

[@lauragarza1432]

Love for you both from Pilsen 🧡 Part 2?!

[@ElizabethAlvarez-k2k]

Very Proud of these two Latino Actors. Enjoyed the video. Keep up good work John and Michael. Latino power❤

[@kevincreighton594]

Little village is literally one of most dangerous parts of Chicago for Michael Peña to get out of that neighborhood and make it to where he did is resilient and a miracle

[@angelgabriel4642]

I remember when the high school I attended in Massachusetts celebrated the one puertorrican that graduated with honors. I was so disgusted that the counselor was so proud of one! One puertorican where they were hundreds of them.

[@rmarroquin2577]

Thank you guys.

[@d1zturbed221]

My two favorite human beings on earth. God bless your energies.

[@BuscandoTesoros23]

These two are great actors and have always reminded me of each other!

[@AndreaHernandez-nj8md]

Grandes Actores😊 Felicidades y que Dios los Bendiga🙏

[@bryntookool]

My two favorite Latino actors

[@slappygilmore7653]

I love watching these two as actors but seeing them in this one on one interview and seeing them are normal human beings is amazing I'd love to just spend a day with the both of them just once and hear these stories in person

[@jayzrat]

Two amazing actors!

[@AbeVicious]

First place my father lived after coming here from Mexico was Chicago. I remember seeing his photos of him and friends in bell-bottoms and hippie hair, mustache. Kinda wish i was in chicago to experience it.

[@mookie2209]

Omg I live in Chicago and I would have loved to run into these two icons on the street!!!😍😍😍Nobody would have believed me 😭😭😭

[@blackam41]

Such amazing and beautiful people

[@ricardolozano1240]

Pena and leguizamo is legendary.

[@bigpunisher4483]

Puerto Rican and Mexican! 👊 i love bei g latino!!

[@forthepeople1664]

He’s Mr. Chicago, happy to see these guys, keep it up.

[@jessiechairez914]

Wow!!! I did not know Michael Pena was from Little Village. I love Michael even more now!!!

[@roberthill3703]

Man I love these guy's they need to do a movie together.

[@swiftkarma4436]

John Leguizamo is still a handsome man. He is aging gracefully.

[@Vjl5280]

Pena needs an academy award. The guy is a stellar actors.

[@jtjtrs8806]

Michael man your representing in a mayor way for mexican americans , please keep on doing it !!

[@GOILL]

Family is so important to us because our parents leave what they know for a better future. It takes a lot to leave what you know.

[@HopeOverComesFear369]

I appreciate seeing this video because i felt outcasted from little village because am Puerto Rican and felt unwelcome in little village because I learned that Puerto Ricans are not well received their but I hope everyone sees this video to see them 2 together makes a statement in many ways .

[@reneriley8132]

I feel you brother, being from Mexican heritage in Humboldt park was rough. I’ve Never felt welcomed. Never understood why the animosity between Mexican and Puerto Rican.

[@donatello4041]

That drama is more prevelant in schools than the hood. From little village i went to Prosser and Sabin Magnet

[@HopeOverComesFear369]

just don't understand it h. park didn't show me to hate Mexicans if anything I saw and learned that Mexicans were happy to have friends of P.Rican I had friends growing up Mexican and once I moved their I learn how Mexicans in little village hate us for what . @@reneriley8132

[@HopeOverComesFear369]

the crazy thing is I never had a reason to hate Mex. my brother is Mex and he died at birth and my sisters are Mex I have family of many decent9if thats the right word to use) both I could believe what I had to intake from little village sideways hate I aint down with that. @@donatello4041

[@lotusgrl444]

Isnt he Colombian!? Nonetheless, when I was in 7th/8th grade, I had curly hair, this was back in the 90s and as a Mexican I hated when ppl would say I looked puerto rican bc of my curls..it was silly but there was real beef back then between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans..now I love me some jibaritos and even visited La Isla Del Encanto!!

[@on1-4life]

2 of my favorite actors 😮

[@sirenloud]

Me hizo la boca esa torta

[@MiguelBanda-y5g]

❤ una película juntos 😊

[@michaelking9963]

Little village is a dangerous place when your black…when I was a child living in the suburbs of Chicago…there was areas where it was only Mexican…I was told not to go there…But I did ..first food I ever had was a torta ..then the candy..and stuff from the bakery…it was different on that side …they had there own business and they was circulating there money…when I got older I went to that side and Latin Kings …hated me and I was lucky god was with me…My girlfriend is from Mexico City I met her in California…we moved back to the Midwest…The culture is a beautiful thing ..I wish we all could unite …But on this side or anywhere it will never happen

[@logogonzalez6083]

Aqui te nemos 2 primeros actores Latinos DOS grandes' de Verdad

[@zackketz]

Pena is top tier and criminally under utilized.

[@lucio.martinez]

Uff, qué padre! Yo soy mexicano, en el USA, desde guachito. Conozco estas dos culturas, el colombo-boricua y el chicano mexicano. Yo soy pocho, nacido mexicano, con cultura algo chicana, pero más mexicana. I remember el Leguizamo from, "Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar", y "Mambo Mouth". Saludos from Florida y'all! 🇲🇽🇺🇸

[@dalzvert9206]

Michael Peña isnt Chicano because he isnt from the Southwestern US, hes Hispanic-American of Mexican origins from the Midwest all the while John Leguizamo is Hispanic of Colombian origins from Latin America and he has no Puerto Rican origins

[@charlesxavier9485]

@@dalzvert9206 real 💯

[@highlymysteriousplayer9694]

LOL eres "Pocho" ? ahahahahah deberias aprender español bien antes de usarlo, pocho es un insulto

[@highlymysteriousplayer9694]

ahahahaha "yo soy pocho" lol es es algo de lo que no deberias estar orgulloso pocho es un insulto hahahaha mejor adaptate a tu nuevo pais o si tanto te gusta mexico entonces regresa aqui y limpia mi casa hahahaha

[@trinicarillo4179]

It bothers me that they keep saying they went to terrible schools. They should rephrase this as they went to underfunded schools. Super Mexican is also something we need to move away from as well. Being Mexican isn’t levels, he was proud of his culture and exhibited. Much like the Irish and Italian do.

[@Lookoverthere123]

Something that bother me as well is that they keep saying Mexicans dress this way we in fact we all don’t..

[@patriotacienxciento1083]

Man .. that store it's nice..

[@carlosmartoral6268]

My Favorite actors and entertainers!

[@samuelcorona9214]

I wana see them both in a movie now

[@rubensalais1502]

I heard this two orgullos de nuestra cultura and make me feel really proud of my heritage, keep it up guys

[@DonRamiro1]

I used to live in Chicago and I remember Taqueria Atotonilco. I got so excited when I first saw it because that's where my parents are from only to learn that the owners aren't even from Atotonilco. They just basically stole the name.

[@stevenvia2452]

These 2 dudes need a show on tv

[@MrEarthquake213]

Yes very true about family. My friend is white. He trips out on how my Mexican family is close & that we are always together. He says he doesn’t have that in his family. Yet he loves hanging out with us.

[@rayvillarreal-bc3fw]

Hola Pena, congrats on the collab W/ John. You two could be a dynamic duo for Hispanic history in the US

[@cassie1dueces]

Love this 2 one of my faves arriba nuestra gente

[@bobtorres7949]

Wait holdnon Michael John's been here for many films & shows

[@breej69]

Love both of these actors!

[@RudyArroyo-v7d]

I’m from lil village and people say he reminds people of me short Mexican with similar mannerisms when I fond out he was from the neighborhood ( different side) I t made sense but I love what you did and do for us thank u Michael pena

[@AlfredoMartinez-g6t]

Familia primero ,God bless 🙏

[@chanisamor8701]

That’s my hood all the way! I’m from Chicago and that taco place they eat, I lived a block away. Aww 🥰 good time for sure. Chi-town baby!!!

[@Richard-vj4wj]

Keep up the good work! We need more Actors like you. Tell the Chicano actors to step up.

[@guillermoanaya2968]

I Went To School With This Cat, Never Spoke To Him. I Was A Senior And He Was A Freshman..but I'm so glad he made it..proud of him..hope to meet him someday..maybe on my podcast...wink wink!!

[@eliassalcedo5229]

Excellent video, bring some more.

[@rickroser59]

Both are great actor's , and should be in more movies together

[@TheAvargas687]

Huge fan of this dude , grate actor mr, peña is us up on the screen

[@Robertjgamer]

I loveee michael peña❤

[@JonnyCigar407]

Chicago best Mexican food period

[@emiliaescobar7652]

Love, Love these two guys!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kobralockhart3908]

Michael Pena IS THAT GUY!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@jessecantu5130]

These are some real brothers right here 👍👍por Vida

[@JohnDoe-cd6ro]

HAVING SUPPORTIVE PARENTS IS ESSENTIAL!

[@talisha5863]

Absolutely love this duo💕

[@GodisKing1219]

Best actors!

[@jimboh4311]

Atotonilco Restaurant ..Wow 😮

[@treyoftriphorya]

It was cool seeing him there

[@Goldone99]

This Guy reminds you of one of your favorite Uncles

[@nolames9084]

2 of my favorite actors.....

[@Sunshinegal317]

I love this video. Thanks for sharing.

[@mponce661]

John LeguizaMo really asking, “what’s creama ?”, is comical

[@miagy5088]

I did the same thing I moved 3 of my 4 sons to better schools out of the hood big difference.

[@ineedthatent5370]

I loved this Two legends

[@maymoon8851]

Wait nooo I need more 😢😂😂😂

[@eddievenuto1862]

Those two guys great