

Hayek will next be seen in How to Be a Latin Lover, in theaters April 24. Salma Hayek Pinault (born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez, Septemin Coatzacoalcos, Mexico) is a Mexican actress of Spanish and Lebanese ancestry, and is now an American citizen. George Clooney was like, ‘How come she doesn’t look at us?’, ‘Because I’m the writer.'” Salma Hayek Pinault (born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez September 2, 1966) is a Mexican-American film actress, producer, and former model. “Where of course he makes me dance only for him.

“So I did it and from that dance, Quentin wrote me the part in From Dusk Till Dawn,” Hayek explained. “He said, ‘Just put a bathing suit on, and we won’t see your face.'” He and Tarantino were working on the anthology film Four Rooms (1994) and needed a stripper, so Rodriguez reached out to his Desperado star on the day of filming. Hayek was recruited to the project after doing a favor for friend Rodriguez. Because you can’t choreograph a snake, we don’t know what she’s going to do!” I had to go on trance to do the dance… And there was no choreography.

“So it was good because I had to overcome my greatest fear. To prod the actress, Tarantino claimed that Madonna was interested in the role, and that she would have no problem being wrapped in python. It’s my greatest fear,‘” Hayek recalled (watch above). “Quentin told me, ‘Oh, by the way, you’re dancing with a snake.’ I said, ‘I can’t do that, I can’t do that. Hayek said at multiple points during our recent Role Recall interview that her memories of filming the scene were blurry because she had gone “on trance” due to some serious ophidiophobia. From Dusk Till Dawn’s deep cast also delivers a number of memorable performances Michael Parks carries the opening scene with. Initially a tense kidnap thriller, From Dusk Till Dawn pulls a midway plot switch when the antiheroes hole up in a bar infested with vampires. The film features a combination of solid character actors (Michael Parks, Harvey Keitel), beloved genre icons (Tom Savini, Fred Williamson, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo), and future stars (Salma Hayek, George Clooney). But she doesn’t remember all that much about the actual filming. 1996’s chase movie/vampire western From Dusk Till Dawn is a wild genre hybrid that by all rights should not have worked. Salma Hayek remembers how she got the role of a snake-dancing stripper vampire in the Quentin Tarantino-penned, Robert Rodriguez-directed thriller From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
