Who is Wes Studi you might ask? Why, he's the Native American Danny Trejo of course! Wes Studi is probably best remembered for playing Magua in the 1992 Michael Mann version of The Last of the Mohicans. He's the pockmarked, tough living, Native American man of few words who has appeared as the pockmarked, tough living Native American man of few words in films like Dances With Wolves and Mystery Men. More specifically, Wes Studi belongs to the Cherokee Nation and spoke Cherokee as his primary language until he started school. He also served in the US military for 18 long months during the Vietnam war. So he comes by his pockmarks, his tough life and his Native American culture honestly. As his official web site www.thestudigroup.com will gladly point out, Mr. Studi is also a sculptor, a political activist and a musician. So although Hollywood generally will only pull him off the shelf if they need some stoic looking Indian to hand out kernels of Earthy wisdom or righteously kick some European settlers asses, they are clearly not using Wes Studi to the full extent of his capabilities as an actor. Personally he's one of my all time favorite You Know That Guys since I'm part Onondaga Iroquois and feel a certain level of pride any time a Native American actor gets famous enough to be recognized, even if only minimally. Plus, he was the funniest part about Mystery Men, the best bad guy in a long time in Last of the Mohicans and actually played the often imitated but never duplicated Indian in the Desert in The Doors. You rock Wes Studi! Keep on keeping on.

Danny Trejo has been acting since the early 1960's. Best known for playing pockmarked, tough living Mexican or Mexican American men of few words, he's made a stealthy but enduring impression on audiences in movies like Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn and Con Air. He's spent more than 10 years in prison, is a prize winning boxer, has successfully overcome a life threatening addiction to drugs and has tattoos from head to toe. Since the time he turned his life around he has also been actively involved in drug, suicide and gang interventions. So he comes by his pockmarks, his tough life and his Mexican heritage honestly too. Although his characters don't usually say that much, from the various interviews and articles I've read about him, his life is packed solid with interesting stories and experiences that influence his ability to portray his characters honestly and directly. Again, it's pretty clear that Hollywood isn't using this multi-faceted dynamo of an actor to the full extent that they could. Which is their loss since Danny Trejo is a seriously bad assed mother funker.

The only time these two You Know THAT Guys ever appeared in the same movie together they both had minimal roles in 1995's Heat. Studi played a police detective named Casals and Trejo played a character named, um, Trejo. It is our hope that one day Studi and Trejo are teamed up for the end all be all, stop or my mom will shoot, four to the floor, rock me Amadeus, best buddy cop movie ever conceived of for the big screen. Because that's a You Know THAT Guy film extravaganza we'd pay good money to see. But only if the film makers cast Ronny Cox as the grizzled captain who gets all bent out of shape when one of them does the exact opposite of police procedure.