Salma Hayek says for years she wasn’t allowed to take comedic roles because she was branded as a “sexy” woman.
The Frida star sat down with GQ for an interview and lamented that she couldn’t escape her first US film role as a vampiric stripper in From Dusk Till Dawn. Speaking positively about the Robert Rodriguez film, he admitted that he was closing doors to other roles.
“I was typecast for a long time,” he said. “All my life I’ve wanted to do comedy and people wouldn’t give me comedy. I couldn’t get a part until I met Adam Sandler, who got me in. in a comedy. [Grown Ups, 2010]but I was in my forties!
“They were like, ‘You’re sexy, so you’re not allowed to have a sense of humor.’ Not only were you not allowed to be smart, you weren’t allowed to to be funny in the 90s.”
Reflecting on his time in Hollywood, the actor added, “At the time, I felt sad, but now I’m doing all the genres, at a time in my life when they told me he had expired, that the last 20 years would have “I’m unemployed. So I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m laughing. I laugh, my daughter.”
Hayek made her Hollywood debut alongside George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Danny Trejo and Juliette Lewis in From Dusk Till Dawn in 1996. She then starred in Kevin Smith’s cult religious comedy Dogma. Hayek received critical acclaim in 2002 with the biopic Frida Kahlo Frida.
Hayek’s next big role will be in the latest Magic Mike movie, opposite Channing Tatum. She recently revealed that Tatum “nearly killed her” while rehearsing a lap dance scene for Magic Mike’s Last Dance.
The actor, who plays Maxandra Mendoza in the franchise’s third film, recalled a rehearsal for a lap dance routine gone wrong after Hayek turned around.