Salma Hayek, unrecognizable, in her first 'casting'
Before being a charming dancer of snakes, bandit and Frida, the Mexican actress presented herself in an audition for the telenovela 'Teresa'
Today she is a star, married to the French billionaire François-Henri Pinault and one of the most powerful Latinas in Hollywood after giving life to the exuberant snake charmer dancer for Tarantino ('From Dusk Till Dawn', 1996), to the painter 'Frida' Khalo (2002) and, along with her friend Penélope Cruz, play one of the most edgy 'Bandidas' (2006) on celluloid.
But before, much before, Salma Hayek (49 years old), the daughter of businessman Sami Hayek Domínguez, a Mexican with a Lebanese father, and Diana Jiménez Medina, a Mexican of Spanish origin, had to appear at many 'castings' to prove her worth. .
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In 1988, with an Eva Nasarre bouffant hairstyle, she stood out among the candidates for the role of the manipulative Teresa for the telenovela of the same name on Televisa. The soap opera swept Mexico and Hayek got the first point of the star from her.
Now, almost three decades later, the Univisión program 'Despierta América!' has rescued from the trunk of memories the tape with which Hayek got his first big role: "Hello, I'm Salma Hayek, I'm 20 years old, I study in the first year of the second group of the Training Center and I have no experience," he whispered fearful
