![]() Tarantino saw her performance and wrote the part of Santanico Pandemonium specifically for Hayek. Salma Hayek as Santanico Pandemonium, the Vampire Queen of the Titty Twister and a former dhampir, in From Dusk till Dawn (Credit: Miramax Films / WENN) He had hired her to play the role of a stripper in a previous movie of his, Four Rooms. Hayek and Rodriguez had worked together before filming From Dusk Till Dawn. Salma Hayek was cast, too, but, as mentioned, she almost lost the part. Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay and George Clooney starred as Seth Gecko in the 1996 American action horror film From Dusk till Dawn (Credit: Miramax Films / WENN) Hayek’s Casting Storyįresh off his Best Writing Oscar win for Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino teamed up with director Robert Rodriguez and rounded up some of the finest actors Hollywood had to offer, like George Clooney and Harvey Keitel for the action-horror film From Dusk Till Dawn. To begin with, the actress had many small roles but was eventually cast in Desperado, which brought her to prominence in Hollywood.Ī year after acting in Desperado, Hayek starred in a film written by Quentin Tarantino, From Dusk Till Dawn. Salma Hayek had her breakthrough as Carolina in the 1995 American neo-Western action film Desperado (Credit: Sony Pictures) Hayek’s first role was in the Mexican telenovela Teresa, for which she played the titular role, but after just a few years starring in the show, she moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career in America. ![]() Hayek studied acting as a young girl, and after graduating from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, she sought a serious acting career. Salma Hayek was born in Mexico, and from the time she was a child, she knew she wanted to be an actress. Here’s how Salma Hayek got cast in cult classic From Dusk till Dawn: Salma Hayek’s Background The actress gained international fame thanks to one role, but she almost lost her opportunity. The film also stars Ari Lehman (Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th), Linnea Quigley ( Night of the Demons), Joe Bob Briggs & Diana Prince aka Darcy the Mail Girl (“The Last Drive-In”), Lloyd Kaufman ( The Toxic Avenger), and Doug Bradley (Pinhead from Hellraiser).Salma Hayek has been a Hollywood starlet for decades now, playing roles in dozens of films, and earning an Oscar nomination for her work in Frida. Unfortunately for Michelle, some uninvited trick-or-treaters from her past come knocking…and this time they’ve brought their friends…” Now in college, Michelle and best friend, Heather ( Sable Griedel) are put in charge of the annual Gamma Tau Psi haunted house. However, she is still plagued with the questions of what truly happened to Sam and Josh ( Mitchell Musolino and Will Stout) and the rest of her friends that disappeared on Halloween night. “It’s been three years since Michelle ( Lexi Dripps) escaped the events in Wheary Falls. Now, the Halloween horror movie has a follow-up sequel The Barn Part II, which arrives exclusively on SCREAMBOX this Friday! Seaman‘s 2016 horror movie The Barn (from Terror Films), a retro throwback horror movie that took you back to 1989. I already talked to her and she’s willing to dance with the snake.’ I had to overcome my greatest fear. It’s my greatest fear.’ And he said, ‘Well Madonna will do it. Quentin told me, ‘Oh by the way you’re dancing with a snake.’ And I said, ‘I can’t do that. Hayek continued, revealing how Tarantino got her to do the scene: And from that dance, Quentin saw it and wrote me the part in From Dusk Till Dawn… where of course he makes me dance only for him. Put a bathing suit on and we won’t see your face.’ So I did it. They were casting strippers for Four Rooms (I was not a part of that), and the day of the shoot, in the morning, Robert called me and said, ‘Can you please come and be the stripper? We won’t see your face.’ He goes, ‘Just put a bathing suit on. ![]() ![]() Over 20 years after the release of the film, Hayek recalls how she landed the role in a chat with Yahoo: One of the most memorable scenes in From Dusk Till Dawn saw a bikini-clad Salma Hayek dance around on stage as sexy snake-whisperer Santanico Pandemonium. It’s part crime thriller, part vampire flick, and it’s one of the very best horror films to come out of the decade that’s often considered be the genre’s all around worst. Tarantino of course co-wrote (and starred in) the Robert Rodriguez-directed From Dusk Till Dawn, which feels very much like, well, a Quentin Tarantino horror movie. Movie fans are often begging for Quentin Tarantino to make a horror movie, but we kind of already got one way back in 1996. Can you believe it’s already been over 20 years? ![]()
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