[Continued from Page 1] Hayek may have looked comfortable in the nude scenes but she definitely wasn’t while filming them. “It’s not comfortable and I was not relaxed at all. I act comfortable but I was not. As a matter of fact, I was in such a state, Robert came to see me but he was really nervous because this is not the one scene I wanted to do. I was cold. So at one point they said, ‘You have to come out.’ And everybody came like, ‘It’s okay.’ ‘Don’t ask me. I don’t want to talk about it!’ You’re going to sit here and say, ‘I’m okay,’ and you’re not? It’s like everybody came, ‘Are you okay?’ ‘Yes, I’m fine!’ What are you going to say? ‘Let’s get it over with.’
At one point Colin came, started making jokes and I [grumbled], ‘I’m not in the mood. Colin, right now I’m really upset about this.’ ‘It’s going to be okay,’ I’m barking. So I start to walk out and out he comes, butt naked from the trailer, jumping, he’s doing [a dance] and I started laughing. It was the most ridiculous thing. Everybody started laughing and he did it because of that, to relax me because I was really tense.
I have to say that he never, when we were doing the scene, he did not once look down. I sometimes talk to guys when I am dressed and they talk to me like this [looking at her chest]. They don’t know they’re doing it. And Colin was, for all his reputation, I was expecting what’s he going to do? Is he going to try to get too funny here? Never. Never took his eyes off mine. No. ‘How can I help,’ completely supportive. I was very surprised by Colin Farrell because with all the stories you hear, I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ But no.”
Salma Hayek Describes Filming the Ocean Scene: “It was freezing and I got a little bit of hypothermia. I mean, they were really careful. I mean, we had to prepare physically to do the scene because it was so cold.”
The scenes were shot in a special wave machine and not the ocean. “The scene that we were going to do in the actual ocean, the actual ocean, not only would it have been just cold, but a week before we arrived, somebody got eaten by a shark there exactly where we were going to shoot. So they had to really fast find this place and I thought it was going to be warm but it wasn’t.”
Salma Hayek Understands and Shares Robert Towne’s Passion for Work: “Yes, definitely and probably that’s part of our bonding. We’re very, very close. If he says very nice things about me, it’s because he’s my friend. We got really, really close. We got really, really close.”
