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Welcome to The Salma Hayek Picture
Pages!
Born September 2, 1968 in
Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, Salma Hayek has become one of the
more popular leading ladies on film today. Salma
certainly didn't have the average life of others from
her country, as her father was a top exec with the
state-owned oil company and mother was an opera singer.
Salma has admitted to having had a very spoiled
childhood which included her own private zoo, Colorado
ski trips, and summers on Greek islands. Originally,
this Spanish speaking actress was working in Mexico on
the highest rated television program in that country.
Hayek had dreams of going to Hollywood and conquering a
bigger name for herself and quit the popular show and
start from the bottom, not even knowing the language she
was hoping to act in. After heading to LA in '91, Hayek
spent extensive time learning English and acting. She
also met Richard Crenna Jr. there when they took acting
lessons and were briefly engaged but later broke up and
called it off.
Hayek got a huge break when director
Robert Rodriguez had caught Hayek on a Spanish
television talk show. Rodriguez contacted her and had
planned on having her star in his upcoming movie
Desperado, and after a little convincing of his
financial backers, she landed the role. Starring
opposite Antonio Banderas, the movie was the start of
her highly successful movie career. Though she was
criticized in her native country of Mexico for her nude
sex scenes with Antonio to which she replied "In Mexico,
people are still very reserved about sex". Next up came
the movies Fair Game and Fled where she
co-starred with William Baldwin. Her roles in 1997
brought the acclaimed Fools Rush In and the TNT
movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame.where she dated
co-star Edward Atterton for an extensive amount of time
before later breaking off the relationship. Salma's
latest roles in 1999 brought the much hyped but much
disappointing Wild Wild West which co-starred
Will Smith, as well as Dogma, which stars Ben
Affleck, Matt Damon, and Chris Rock. In Wild Wild West,
Salma was so nervous about her nude scene she cleared
the studio and was further instigated when Will hung a
BA as she was turning to read her lines, but the ever
cool Salma didn't even flinch to the displeasure of
Smith who presumably wanted to see Salma's fine bod a
little longer!
Hayek bristles at comments saying how
far Latins have made it in Hollywood, responding by
saying: "Don't tell me that Latins are making it in
Hollywood! Every time I hear that, it makes me so mad!
Some people say, 'But look at Jennifer Lopez! Look what
she's doing.' Jennifer Lopez is from New York. Do you
hear an accent? Her grandparents or her parents, maybe.
Her Spanish is very bad. She is a very good actress ...
and now it's very convenient because when she has to be
Latin, she's Latin. But 'Out of Sight' was not
about a Puerto Rican. It was about a couple from New
York." She further says about Hollywood's anti-Mexican
stance: "When I asked a producer to consider casting a
Latina as a fashion editor, he told me a Latina might be
all right in the role but definitely not a Mexican.
People around here think that Mexicans are lazy and have
no style." Whatever the case, many in Hollywood do think
that Salma has style, and is a refreshing break from the
anorexic, bulimic, and siliconed actresses who currently
dominate film and music. |
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