Both actors starred in the film 'Desperado' in 1995.
Despite how natural s-x scenes can be seen on the big screen, there is an important job behind it that sometimes is not comfortable for the actors. Salma Hayek has been the last to be honest about this aspect when talking about the s-x scene that she had to record with Antonio Banderas for the movie Desperado (1995).
The Mexican interpreter has confessed on the Armchair Expert podcast that the filming of this sequence was one of the most "traumatic" moments of her career. The film was the fourth production in Hayek's career, so she still did not have enough ease to face a scene of this type that, moreover, was not in the initial script, as she has recalled.
According to her account, the scenes were "requested by the studio to see the chemistry between the two" something that caught her completely off guard despite her good relationship with Banderas.
″He is an absolutely charming guy, quite the gentleman, and we became very good friends. But he was very 'free'. And I was very scared of that and that, for him, it was nothing. I had never seen myself in such a situation so I started crying and he said: 'My God, you're making me feel terrible'. He made me so ashamed… ”, the actress recalled.
In the absence of privacy coordinators at the time, the director's wife, Robert Rodríguez, entered the set to try to calm her down. “Elizabeth Avellán, Rodríguez's wife at that time, became a great friend of mine. I remember that Robert closed the entire set so that only he, his wife, Antonio and I were there”, she has detailed.
Hayek has noted that, despite stopping crying when her classmates tried to calm her down and make her laugh, she couldn't help but cry again when the towel was removed from her. According to her account, this modesty was due to what her father and her brother, who helped her launch her career, might think.
The final montage of the scene was influenced by this "bad time" of the actress. The sequence has very fast cuts due to Hayek's inability to concentrate due to the discomfort caused by the situation.
