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    Actor Danny Trejo spent 12 years robbing stores, but now he only plays the bad guy in movies.

    Trejo has been in nearly 200 films playing "tough guy" characters, but earlier in his life, he spent some time behind bars for drugs and robbery.

    According to Nate Jones at Time Magazine, Hollywood came calling when a director asked if Trejo could play a convict, which he replied, "I'll give it a shot."

    "I've been in every penitentiary in the state of California. And so when they say, 'Can you do a robbery?' I go, 'Hell, done a few of those,'" he said.