Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing.

After the premier screening at Sundance and the subsequent hype of the film Leonard found himself in the spotlight appearing in magazine covers and getting roles for other movies. When he was six he was convinced by his father to appear in plays like Life With Father. After teaching poor children in Puebla working as a gardener and hiking through the jungles of Central and South America Leonard returned to the U.