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Feb 17, 2021
Salma Hayek On Filming First Love Scene Ever: I Started To Sob
The actor was afraid to film her sex scene with Antonio Banderas for 1995 s Desperado, although she said he was an absolute gentleman.
Salma Hayek recently opened up about filming her very first sex scene and explained why she couldn’t stop crying during it.
Hayek has a steamy love scene with Antonio Banderas in the 1995 movie “Desperado.” But she wasn’t aware that the Robert Rodriguez-directed film had such a scene until after production began, she told Dax Shepard and Monica Padman on an episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast released this week.
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Though the movie “Desperado” was released more than two decades ago, actress and producer Salma Hayek still cringes at the sex scene in the 1995 film.
In it, she plays Carolina, a young woman who runs a bookstore cafe in a town where no one reads. Her costar, Antonio Banderas, plays El Mariachi, a revenge-seeking musician who stores guns in his guitar case.
In conversation with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman for the “Armchair Expert” podcast, Hayek recalled that the sex scene in the film her breakthrough in the English-speaking world was not originally in the script.
“It was demanded by the studio when they saw the chemistry,” she said during
Sundance 2021 Market: 15 Movies That Could Sell Big in a Year of Virtual Discovery IndieWire 1/25/2021
In 2020, the Sundance Film Festival kicked off with a splashy premiere for Netflix’s new Taylor Swift documentary. When the 2021 edition gets underway on Thursday, there will be none of that. As a virtual affair, this year’s Sundance is a back-to-basics event, one where a plethora of smaller-scale films without distribution will vie both for awards and acquisition.
But don’t let the relative lack of A-list names suggest that sales activity will be sluggish. Amid a dearth of production, streaming arms race, and the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel coming into view, buyers are hungry for new product.
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Every year, at the end of January, it seems like Austin s film scene packs its collective bags and heads to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. This year, as the pandemic rolls on, Sundance is coming to Austin with a special series of screenings and panels presented by the festival and Austin Film Society. It all started last summer, said Holly Herrick, AFS head of film & creative media, when they reached out to us and said, Look, we re trying to reimagine the festival.
There s a lot of history between AFS and Sundance, far beyond the annual trip many of the staff take to the mountains for a first glimpse of the new crop of American and global indie cinema. The two organizations have been collaborating for years, whether it be showing the festival s short film selections in the AFS Cinema, or helping connect Texas filmmakers with Sundance. A lot of AFS Fellows have also gone through Sundance Institute Labs, said Herrick. This year, that collaboration has only gotten