It's great to see her reminisce about FROM DUSK TILL DAWN all this time later, talking about the role she played in a movie that had a major impact on me twenty-one years ago. Hayek looked back on that dance scene during a recent interview with Yahoo! She goes into how she got the job, and the fact that she had to dance with a snake despite being afraid of snakes. Salma Hayek remembers how she got the role of a snake-dancing stripper vampire in the Quentin Tarantino-penned, Robert Rodriguez-directed 1996 thriller From Dusk Till Dawn, which turns 25 on. That's how Tarantino described it in the script: "all hell breaks loose" when the vampires attack the club's clientele. After controlling her phobia of snakes, Salma Hayek became one of Hollywood’s sexiest Latinas The story behind the scene that catapulted her career and turned her into a brunette bombshell. As soon as the dance ends, all hell breaks loose. Appearing on stage with a snake wrapped around her, Santanico picks Tarantino's psychotic character out of the crowd and does her dance specifically for him. The two halves of the movie are bridged by a dance performed by the club's star attraction, Salma Hayek as vampire Queen Santanico Pandemonium. It then dives into horror in the second half, when the brothers and their hostages realize that they've stumbled into a den of vampires. The first half of the film is a crime thriller, with two violent criminal brothers on the run from the law. When Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) takes the stage for her snake dance, Seth (George Clooney), Richard (Quentin Tarantino), and all other eyes are on h. The Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino collaboration (Rodriguez directed, Tarantino wrote the screenplay and has an acting role in the film) truly captured my imagination at the time of its release and blew me away with its incredible cast (George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Tom Savini, Fred Williamson, Michael Parks, John Hawkes, the list goes on), cool characters, memorable lines, awesome concept, and unique structure. Tagged 'tbt,' the post contains two GIFs from the 1996 action-horror movie, From Dusk Till Dawn, in which Hayek was cast as a snake-wielding vampire stripper.
The 1996 film FROM DUSK TILL DAWN is one of my all-time favorites. Legendary actress Salma Hayek broke one of her most famous scenes out of the vault this afternoon, titillating her 12 million Instagram followers.