Mark Pellegrino Looks Back on "LA Law"

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The hot NBC drama marked "my first time being on a really big set," Pellegrino recalls. "So I was really, really intimidated, and I had the unenviable task of picking on a little person."

Pellegrino's character — who, for the record, was named "Punk" — was one of a trio of miscreants who are much bigger than the lawyer they string up on the back of a bathroom stall's door.





The idiots are stopped by a very angry Victor Sifuentes, played by Jimmy Smits.

"I remember looking at him, and when he saw the other actor hanging from the hook there, he turned around and looked at me. The first thought that went through my head was, 'Holy crap, he’s really mad' — but there was no imaginary stuff. Like, he was really mad and I was a little worried, because he’s a big guy and the very next thing he had to do to me was grab me by my lapel, by my leather jacket or whatever I was wearing, and smash me into this breakaway mirror — which he did with considerable force, I have to say," he says.

"That was like my first real experience of… a really authentic actor having an experience on film. It actually took me out of the moment."

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