I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike and Sprite. Dante Basco Read Quote
After ‘Hook,’ it was so sad for all of us to watch the set get destroyed. We were at the end of ‘Hook,’ and we’re walking off the Sony lot and we’re literally seeing the boat get destroyed. That was the sad thing, seeing that go. Dante Basco Read Quote
I come from a big family of brothers and sisters and family dramas and honor and dishonor. Dante Basco Read Quote
I come from a traditional media generation, you know? I’m like the last generation of that. And so the whole world has changed, ultimately. Coming into social media, Twitter, Facebook – I mean, the first social media I ever had was Tumblr. Dante Basco Read Quote
My brothers and I came to L.A. as break-dancers when I was about 10, and by the time I was 15, I was working on this really big movie, with Steven Spielberg and Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams. Dante Basco Read Quote
But everyone comes to Hollywood hoping to get a role people are going to remember them for, and I get girls saying I was their first crush, or Asian guys saying Rufio was the first time they saw an Asian kid on-screen that wasn’t nerdy or stereotypical, so I was lucky the character that resonated was cool. Dante Basco Read Quote
I love seeing the new generation take something that we’ve done and reinvent it for a whole new time. Dante Basco Read Quote
The crazy thing about ‘Hook’ was it was one of the movies in town that everybody knew about. It was the biggest film shooting in Hollywood at the time and the idea of Robin Williams playing Peter Pan really captured everybody’s imagination. Dante Basco Read Quote
