2. A refrain in your show is "cup my balls." Is that your thing?
JL: That used to be my thing. It's not my thing anymore. You know how you go through things, then they're not your thing anymore? That was my thing when I was in my early 20s. Now, I don't need that anymore. I don't know what my thing is now. I don't want to talk about what my thing is now. [Laughs]
3. Was your first time everything you thought it would be?
JL: Yeah and no. The foreplay was a lot better. I used to spend hours and hours.... My mom would be at work, and me and my girl would be spending hours just necking and feeling each other up. My dad walked in once and he said, "What are you doing?" I said, "We're necking." He said, "Well, put your neck back in your pants."
4. You shared a room with your brother until you went to college. Did that put a crimp in your womanizing?
JL: Totally. My brother was a little jealous bastard. There was this one girl I was madly in love with. I'm not going to say her name, but she was half Cuban and half Puerto Rican, so she'll know who she is. I was crazy in love and I had her in my room during the summer. I was about to...finally I had talked her into doing the dirty, the nasty, the funky, and my brother broke the door in, and I had to retreat, and I got myself caught in the zipper. It was totally just like the movie There's Something About Mary, it was so freaking painful. I'm, like, crouching between the two beds going, "Get out! Ow! Get out, you fucker, you've ruined everything!" So I had to go to therapy. I had too many homicidal instincts.
5. In your current show John Leguizamo Live!, you joke that the men in your family are not well-endowed. Then, about the real-life Toulouse-Lautrec, whom you played in Moulin Rouge, you told The Today Show: "He had a very large penis. Prostitutes called him 'The Tripod.' That's how I got the part." Which is true?
JL: I know, can you believe that shit about Toulouse-Lautrec? It's a true story. Typecast again. All I had to do was show enough to get the part.... Well, it was hot in the room when I auditioned, and that makes the difference between an inny and an outy.
6. Toulouse-Lautrec used to say, "The aroma of redheads arouses me." He was in love with Moulin Rouge entertainer Jane Avril. Then, in your show, you advise your newborn son about redheads. Did that really happen? What's the allure of redheads?
JL: I did give him advice about redheads. I said, "Do one. Do one for your daddy. Your daddy's never had one." I told him that, but he's too young to put it into practice. The allure? I want to say it's dirty and innocent at the same time, 'cause I guess it looks like fire, like blood, the red hair. And they're so pink. It's kind of dirty and innocent at the same time.
