John Leguizamo On ‘Chef,’ Jon Favreau [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

In Chef, John Leguizamo plays Martin, friend and assistant to noted chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau), who quits his restaurant job and starts fresh by taking his business on the road with a food truck called “El Jefe.”

Leguizamo found working with Favreau a liberating experience. “You know around the set, he is just letting you be yourself, you know he welcomes all your input and you get to be all of the artist you want to be,” he told uInterview.

Leguizamo also found to time to contribute to the comedy, most notably in the hilarious corn starch scene. “You know when it gets really hot, some of the Latin chef’s pour cornstarch on their gentiles to keep it all from you know going jungle-rot,” he told uInterview. He especially enjoyed working the young Emjay Anthony, who was quite the jokester on set. “He’d always tell me, ‘I slept with Sofia Vergara!’ Well he did he took a nap next to her,” Leguizamo recalled.

Leguizamo first appeared on television in an episode of Miami Vice in 1984, and had his first film appearance in Mixed Blood that same year. He also utilized his vocal talents for many characters, such as the rat from Dr. Dolittle and Sid the sloth from the Ice Age series. It was recently announced that Ice Age 5 would hit theaters in 2016, in which the comedian is expected to reprise his role as Sid.