Robert Rodriguez

Brad Pitt; Miami Rhapsody (1995); Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado (1995), in which Banderas played El Mariachi, a gun-toting musician; and Assassins (1995). In 1996 he starred with Madonna in the musical Evita (1996), playing the role of Ché, the film’s narrator. Accused by some critics of overexposure, Banderas conceded that he…

…she was noticed by director Robert Rodriguez, who cast her in Desperado (1995), alongside Antonio Banderas. Exposure in the action film catapulted the young actress into stardom. Her next major role was in another Rodriguez film, From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), a gory vampire movie that also starred George Clooney…

…Machete Kills (2013) directed by Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez first gave a nod to the Machete character idea in his Spy Kids series, in which Trejo plays Uncle Isador (“Machete”) Cortez, an inventor who creates spy gadgets. Machete also appeared as a spoof trailer (a fictional film preview) in Grindhouse (2007),…