LeJon is known for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) and Down and Out in Vampire Hills (2022). He is a talent above all. Here is an interview with Lejon that will give you a better understanding as to what makes Lejon tick.
- What inspired you to become an actor? My love of movies, plays, television shows inspired me to be an actor. I have a brother Leon who is in Heaven now and was a yr. older than I. We were best buds, co-conspirators etc… when it came to our older brothers, our parents, i.e. the world. When he and I enjoyed the certain films etc…and didn’t want them to end we decided we’d play act our own continuation of the piece. We would pretend we were the characters, and we’d continue the story by play-acting the characters. The enjoyment of play-acting let me know from age 5 and older, I wanted to be an actor because it was/is fun
- Can you share some highlights from your acting journey? I will answer this question by stating, I am usually cast as a character actor. Seldomly, do I play, “The Hero” nor the lead actor. My most colorful roles, among an extensive list of many colorful roles range from Showtime TV movie “Manson’s Lost Girls, I played the drug dealer who sold Charles Manson the drugs that he shared with his followers when they tortured, savagely murdered Sharon Tate and the Labiancas. His name was Bernard Crowe aka “Lotsapoppa”.
- How do you prepare for a new role? Depending on the role, there are different techniques of preparation: If it is a role of a real person that is alive? I do my best to contact that person. In the film “Auto Focus, director Paul Schrader, I played Ivan Dixon who was “The Black guy” on the CBS Television Show “Hogan’s Heroes” starring Bob Crane. I put the word out to my manager and other sources I want to meet and/or speak with Ivan Dixon. A few days later I was on the phone with Mr. Dixon because he lived in Hawaii. He and I spoke, and he gave me a lot of insight into who he is as a person and how he interpreted playing a black prisoner at a Nazi camp during WWII. When the role is a character that I’m not able to speak with whether alive or dead, I hit the internet. Google can be your best friend in situations like this. Reading autobiographies are the best form of research and biographies are the second-best form. Depending on the era, I’ll do general research of the political and social climate of that era.
- What has been your favorite role so far, and why? This is a very difficult question to answer simply because I love every role that I have played. Every role I take on brings a challenge to forget who I am and to exist as that character exists. I must think, react and be that character the entire time I am filming. The more depth and layers you uncover the richer and more believable the character will appear in the piece. The more I get to know my character, I fall in love with who he is, what his motivations are and what his purpose is to move the story. Keeping in mind that I have loved every role I have played, my most loved role is playing Pirate Lejon in POTC Dead Man’s Chest. I worked on this film for one year. We filmed at many locations beginning at Disney Studios in Burbank. The sets were amazing and would have you believing you were on the Atlantic Ocean on a pirate’s ship or in the middle of a rainforest in the Caribbean. The other locations were exotic tourist attractions like the Grand Bahamas as well as a small island called Dominica which is south of Guadalupe and north of Martinique. Being on those islands and playing a pirate felt like the days when my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers. It was like I never grew up and I was privileged to play like I played as a child but in this case, it came with a very luxurious pay rate.
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