Pepe's journey is a tale of great expectations.
the young prawn escaped from a boat off Nantucket Island. made his way to the mainland and began his career in acting at the Fargo school in Oklahoma.
His one prawn Broadway show "i am prawn" opened to an audience of one(a critic) who gave such a bad review that the show was closed before the start of the second act.
if you look in the widescreen special edition directors cut dvd version of Forrest Gump, you can see Pepe's hand in the right corner of your screen when Forrest & Lieut. Dan catch their first LARGE batch of shrimp.
he was part of a cocktail in Goodfellas but that wonderful scene involving Joe Pesci & Pepe was deleted and no one has seen that particular portion film since it hit the cutting room floor. it may have disappear or been locked away in a vault never to bee seen again. a mystery? a scandal? the world may never know.
in Scream 2, pepe played the part of a salt & pepper shaker( he was the salt shaker) during a vicious cooking scene.... but that scene was cut for time contraints.
Pepe had many failed attempts at success. who would have thought that a chance meeting with a frog on a bicycle, two bears, five chickens and a ..a um..whatever, would have altered his career forever.
and THAT is how Pepe came to be.