Neither did John Leguizamo, when Nolan took him out to lunch a while back, at the Odeon, and offered him the role. “I was trying not to eat, because I spit a lot,” Leguizamo recalled recently. Leguizamo, who grew up in Bogotá and Queens, had read the Odyssey at Murry Bergtraum High School, near One Police Plaza. Lately, Leguizamo has been reading Daniel Mendelsohn’s translation of Homer, which describes Eumaeus as a “noble fellow.” ”After lunch, Leguizamo walked over to Hixenbaugh Ancient Art, a gallery on Sixtieth Street.