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Ryan Parker
The actress says that director Robert Rodriguez and star Antonio Banderas were wonderful and total gentlemen, yet she cried all the time.
Salma Hayek on Monday detailed her experience shooting the love scene in her hit film Desperate, making it clear that his trauma had nothing to do with the director or the star.
The Oscar-nominated actress appeared Armchair specialist, the popular weekly podcast hosted by Dax Shepard and Monica Padman. Among the topics they discussed was Hayek’s first big break in Hollywood in 1995 Desperate, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Antonio Banderas. Hayek previously noted that she struggled with the love scene, but it opened the situation for Shepard and Padman.
Thrilled to get the tough Carolina role in the Columbia Pictures film, Hayek said there was no mention of a love scene between his character and El Mariachi de Banderas in the script. It was brought to your attention after production started.
Telling Shepard and Padman that Rodriguez was his “brother” and his then wife, producer Elizabeth Avellán, was his “best friend”, Hayek agreed to do the scene on a closed set. It would only be the four.
“So when we were going to start shooting, I started to sob,” said Hayek, adding that she kept saying to the other three people, “I don’t know if I’m going to make it. I’m scared.”
She continued: “One of the things I feared was Antonio – he was an absolute gentleman and so nice, and we are still very close friends – but he was very free. It scared me that for him, it was nothing. , ‘Oh my God. You are making me feel terrible. And I was so ashamed I was crying. “
Hayek made it clear several times that Rodriguez and Banderas “were incredible” and that Rodriguez “never pushed me”, but even so, the moment was very traumatic and she vividly remembers it.
“I wasn’t dropping the towel,” she said. “They tried to make me laugh. I took it off for two seconds and started crying again. But we got over it. We did the best we could do at the time.”
In the film, the love scene is made in quick cuts. Hayek said it was the best she could do between matches and stops. “When you are not you, you can do this. But I keep thinking about my father and my brother,” she explained of her obstacle. “And will they see? And will they be teased? Guys don’t have that. Your dad will be like, ‘Yes! This is my son!'”
Hayek would finally take his father and brother to see the film, but she said they left the theater during the scene and came back when she finished, adding, “You want your father to be proud of you.”
Listen to the full podcast here.