Salma Hayek improvised her "from twilight to dawn" Stripthease: "They just threw me on stage"
The actor faced a serious fear of snakes to dance with one in the 1996 horror film.
Few things seem more intimidating than dancing on stage in bikini and in front of a whole shooting team while holding a snake, but Salma Hayek managed to go well. In 1996, the actor appeared in the film From twilight to dawn As a vampire stripper, named Pandemonium Santánico. She was already a star in Mexico, but the action-horror film was created just when Hayek broke out in the United States.
In a new interview with GQ British ,, Hayek revealed That he was given no choreography for the scene, which meant that she had to do research and find her herself moves - and while managing her very real fear of the snake around her shoulders. Read the rest to see what she had to say about terrifying work.
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Hayek did not give much direction.
In From twilight to dawn , Santánico is a stripper in a bar that George Clooney And Quentin Tarantino Visit the characters. And they soon learn that all those who work in the bar are a vampire. In a scene, Santánico occurs while wearing a cape, then removes it and dances in a bikini while wearing a python.
"They just threw me on stage with the snake, put the music and said:" Hey, dance! "" Said Hayek Gq . Director Robert Rodriguez I told her that there was no choreography to learn, but that she could do her own research in a strip club. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I felt unsure [and] I just wanted to go through," said the 56 -year -old star. "It was a very small game, but to my surprise, people really remember that moment."
She said that someone was waiting for her role in the wings.
In 2017, Hayek said to Yahoo! This writer Tarantino informed her that another star should take her part if she was too afraid of filming the scene.
"Quentin said to me:" Oh, by the way, you dance with a snake. "I said," I can't do that, I can't do that. He's my biggest fear. "He said, well, Madonna I will do it, I already told her, and she is ready to dance with the snake. ""
Hayek said she was launched in the film after having briefly appeared as a stripper in one of Rodriguez's other projects as a favor for him. Then Tarantino wrote the From twilight to dawn role for her. "Where, of course, he only makes me dance for him," said the actor about the part of the performance where she is getting closer to the character of Tarantino. "George Clooney was like:" How is it that she doesn't look at us? "[Quentin said]" Because I am the writer, "she recalls.
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She had to enter a "trance" to cross the scene.
Hayek chose to face her fear, even if she admitted that she was dissociated during the scene.
"It was good because I had to overcome my biggest fear", Magic Mike's latest dance Star said to Yahoo!. "I had to go [in a] trance to do the dance. And it was improvised. The dance is improvised. And there was no choreographer, nothing. Because you cannot choreography the serpent, we Don't know what she's going to do! "
The snake was not in the script.
In an interview with E! News in 2021, Hayek shared one of the ways She entered a state of mind to be able to dance with the snake.
"I have a phobia," she said. "It was not on the script. I accepted the film, then Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino decided that the dance was with the snake on me."
The actor said that she had decided to pass it because "frankly, [she] really needed to pay the rent".
Hayek did research - and not only in a striptease club - which helped her to cross. "In some cultures, the snake represented - I started doing research - your inner power," she said. "And all my thing that I was washing my brain to do was dancing with my own inner power."
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