Salma Hayek: I wanted to act in comedies, but no one trusted me – I was considered sexy

Salma Hayek really wanted to play a comedic rolebut no one trusted her, until she met Adam Sandler who was the first to recognize her comedic nature

In an interview with GQ UK, she said that because of her appearance, she had been identified with certain roles for a long time, and that she began to be given more comedic roles after Sandler’s 2010 sitcom Grown Ups.

“All my life I wanted to do comedy and people wouldn’t give me comedy,” Hayek said. “I couldn’t get a part until I met Adam Sandler, who put me in a comedy, but I was in my forties! They told me, ‘You’re sexy, so you’re not allowed to have a sense of humor.'”

“Not only were you not allowed to be smart, but you weren’t allowed to be funny in the 1990s,” Hayek said.

It upset her at the time, “but now I’m doing every genre, at a time in my life that I was told I would have finished 20 years ago. So I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m laughing.”

Hayek hoped her role in the 2002 Frida Kahlo biopic, for which she was nominated for an Oscar, would change things. “When I was nominated for an Oscar, the roles I was offered didn’t change at all,” she said. “I really struggled and I thought that would change, but it didn’t.”

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