John Leguizamo: The Global Court Jester of Post-Colonial Anxiety
When the lights went up at the Cannes premiere of Moulin Rouge! in 2001, John Leguizamo—painted green, four-foot-tall, and dying of tuberculosis—was not the obvious candidate to become a walking Rorschach test for the planet’s shifting power dynamics. Yet, two decades later, the Colombian-American polymath has quietly become one of the most efficient export mechanisms…