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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmilio Estevez has spoken about the words his father, Martin Sheen, gave him when he thought about changing his name.Sheen was born Ramón Estévez, however, due to prejudices in the industry, he changed his professional name to Martin Sheen in 1958 in a bid to land more acting roles.When he began auditioning as an actor, Estevez said he, too, used the name Sheen as he thought it would…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmilio Estevez has recounted the time Laurence Fishburne saved him from drowning in quicksand.Appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show this week alongside his father Martin Sheen, Estevez recalled the incident which happened in the Philippines.Estevez had been visiting his dad on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now, when he and actor Fishburne were both…

Laurence Fishburne saved Emilio Estevez from drowning in quicksand when they were both 14 years old. The actors were on location in the Philippines for Apocalypse Now. Estevez was not in the film, but his father, Martin Sheen, was. At the time, Sheen would travel with his family on long shoots in faraway places, so that they could remain close — physically and emotionally. “We’d only known each other a couple of days,” Estevez said of Fishburne on The Jennifer Hudson Show Tuesday, where he made…

Legendary music producer Emilio Estefan weighed in with his take on how to boost Latino representation in showbiz. Latinos, he said, should be true to their identities."I feel proud that I didn't have to change my last name I didn't have to change my sound because people liked it," he said. "We bring something a little bit different and that's what makes America."The Cuban-American Estefan, who is married to superstar singer Gloria Estefan, has endured one of the relatively few key figures in American show business. He's…