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Joe Dominguez, on Nash Bridges. Marin's trademark is his characters' strong Chicano accents. According to Marin, he identifies as Chicano ; he has never been to Mexico and does not speak Spanish , although his relatives do. Marin's nickname "Cheech" is short for " chicharron ", fried pork rind , which is a popular snack and ingredient in Mexican cuisine. He dropped out before graduating. Tommy Chong directed four of their films while co-writing and starring in all seven with Marin. He made a cameo appearance as a dockworker in Ghostbusters II.
After decades apart, Marin and Chong recently reunited for a national tour and a television special. Don and I had known each other for 20 years before that, before he was on Miami Vice or any of that. So when we were on Tin Cup , the very first day, we got together and started doing a scene and telling jokes. Don looks at me and then he disappears into his trailer. After lunch he comes out, he hands me this script.
It was a kind of trashy classic, something you watched on a sun-baked afternoon on the couch and then felt filthy about. Actually, it was kind of like Spring Breakers that way. It indulged both Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's basest impulses.