The traumatic sex scene with Antonio Banderas that made Salma Hayek cry
- “I refused to take off the towel I was wearing. They were trying to make me laugh to relax me. But when I took it off after two seconds, I started crying again », the actress acknowledged about the sequence of 'Desperado'
- «Antonio was an absolute gentleman and very nice to me. In fact, we are still very close friends, "Hayek explained in an interview in the US.
It seems almost impossible to make Salma Hayek cry, a woman of character who has fueled her career in Hollywood by carving out an unimpeachable name and reputation. However, the actress was not able to remain impassive in 1995, when she met for the first time in a movie with the Spanish Antonio Banderas.
During the filming of 'Desperado', directed by Robert Rodríguez, Hayek, a rookie at the time, was summoned to shoot a sex scene for which she did not feel prepared at that point in her career. The idea was to get more funding for the film, the American sequel to 'El mariachi', by Rodríguez himself.
“When we were going to start shooting, I started crying because I didn't know if I could do it.
I was very scared ”, recognized the actress in the program 'Armchair Expert'.
«One of the things that scared me the most was Antonio. Of course he was an absolute gentleman and very nice to me. In fact, we are still very good friends. But he was too free. That was what scared me the most. He had never seen anything like that. So when I started crying he told me that it made him feel very bad. And I, meanwhile, totally ashamed because I could not stop doing it, "said Salma Hayek.
Although Banderas and Robert Rodríguez tried to make the actress feel as comfortable as possible, Hayek has confessed that she still remembers that scene as one of the most traumatic of her career. «I refused to take off the towel I was wearing. They were trying to make me laugh to relax me. But when I took it off after two seconds I would start crying again. In the end we managed to finish the scene. We did the best with what we could do then, "she assured.
The experience was very hard, especially since Hayek could not help but imagine the reaction of her family to see the scene. “Another of the things she thought about the most was my father and my brother. What they were going to think about when they saw the movie. Men don't have to go through this. If a boy teaches something in a movie, his father is going to shout proudly saying that he is his son ", criticized the interpreter. And, although they went to see the movie that made Salma Hayek walk through the front door in Hollywood, when the intimate scene arrived, the actress forced them out of the movie theater.
