Salma Hayek was in tears during shoot of Desparado sex scene: Reports

Hollywood actor Salma Hayek recalled her
experience of what went on behind the camera as well as in her mind while
shooting the very graphic sex scene in the 1995 film ‘Desperado’, directed by Robert Rodriguez, PTI reported.
The film is the second instalment in the Mexico trilogy, which includes ‘El Mariachi’ (1993) and ‘Once Upon a Time in
Mexico’
(2003).

Salma played the role of Carolina, a book cafe
owner who joins forces with El Mariachi played by Antonio Banderas, to seek
vengeance on the drug lord who killed his lover. The sex scene in the film was
a traumatic experience for Hayek, but not because of the Rodriguez or Banderas.

The Oscar-nominated actor said in a podcast
that when she landed the role, the script did not mention any sex scene between
her character and Mariachi. She became aware of it after production began.

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Although she agreed to the scene on a closed
set, she was hesitant about it given the camaraderie she shared with Rodriguez
and his then-wife and producer Elizabeth Avellan. Banderas’s confidence scared
Hayek and even made her cry when the scene was being shot.

“He
was an absolute gentleman and so nice, and we’re still super close friends —
but he was very free. It scared me that for him, it was like nothing. I started
crying, and he was like, ‘Oh my God. You’re making me feel terrible.’ And I was
so embarrassed that I was crying,” she said.

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Hayek reiterated that Rodriguez and Banderas
did not pressurise her for anything.

 The
thoughts of how her father and brother would react on seeing the scene also
gripped her mind, making her more vulnerable.

“When you’re not you, then you can do it.
But I keep thinking of my father and my brother. And are they going to see it?
And are they going to get teased? Guys don’t have that. Your father will be,
‘Yeah! That’s my son!'”

She recollected that they left the theatre when
the scene in question began on screen.