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Welcome to The Salma Hayek Picture Pages!
This site truly contains only high quality scans of Salma,
so you can stop searching for Salma Hayek pictures from now
on! For those new to the site, my philosophy on exactly what
constitutes 'high quality' is found here.
Be sure to check out all four picture galleries to your left.
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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