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Yet another human predator catapulted into this alien world is drug gang enforcer Cuchillo, portrayed by Danny Trejo. “I actually didn’t want Danny to be in this movie,” reveals Rodriguez. “They wrote in the Predators script ‘a Danny Trejo type’ and I said that you can’t put ‘a Danny Trejo type.’ There is no other Danny Trejo. Anybody else we get is going to be a disappointment. I had just used Danny Trejo in Machete and didn’t want to just shove him into this movie. So we looked around for another actor. But there is no one else that iconic, that’s what makes him great. You just have to get Danny.”
“Cuchillo basically don’t like anybody and they basically don’t like him,” Trejo agrees. “He’s a drug dealer and assassin, wearing cowboy boots and a pimp shirt, carrying two machine guns, a nine millimeter [gun] and a knife, because my name’s Cuchillo. Everybody knows that these characters are good at what they do… and that’s kill.”