![]() ![]() ![]() 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. So overall, From Dusk Till Dawn is a good watch for some old school horror splatter theatrics driven by Rodriguez and Tarantino’s energetic spirit.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. Where the film truly excels, however, is within its technical aspects, most notably the excellent special make up effects, the crisp sound effects, and the impressive set design with its “Tittie Twister” concoction. The screenplay by Tarantino is typically dialogue heavy and contains some great lines in the first half of the film only to become corny and clichéd in the second half, which comes across as a tribute to vampire films and it conventions. George Clooney uses his jittery charm to play the ultimate bad ass in his first high profile post ER role alongside him is Tarantino, who is actually not that bad as the sadistic Ritchie Gecko and Harvey Keitel provides his usual solid work in his third collaboration with Tarantino ( Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction being the other two). Other notable cast members include Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Fred Williamson, special make-up artist extraordinaire Tom Savini, and a scantily clad Salma Hayek who sizzles with a sexy dance while flanked with a large snake.Ī highly entertaining, ultra violent, sex fuelled B-grade horror farce, From Dusk Till Dawn toes the line between the ridiculous and the thrilling, as copious amounts of blood is spilt and limbs are severed at a record rate. However, once in Mexico things take an unexpected twist when their rendezvous point – a biker bar/stripper club named the “Titty Twister” – turns out to be a haven for vampires who feed on their unsuspecting occupants. The film – written by Tarantino, based on a story by Robert Kurtzman – stars George Clooney and Tarantino as Seth and Ritchie Gecko, two savage criminals on the lamb who abduct a lapsed preacher (Harvey Keitel) and his two children (Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu) in order to use their camper van to cross the Mexican border. With a cracker of an opening scene setting the tone, filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino make their presence known very quickly in From Dusk Till Dawn, their first collaborative effort which features a mash of two distinctively different genres. ![]()
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