'The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard' stars Ryan Reynolds and Salma Hayek on the one stunt she wouldn't do

The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard stars Ryan Reynolds and Salma Hayek discuss the filming stunts in the movie. Hayek reveals the one that she didn't want to do.

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[GUNSHOTS]

- I know you! Don't I know you?

- I'm Sonia Kincaid.

KEVIN POLOWY: We got to start with the elephant in the Zoom room, the title, "Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard." Are you guys trolling grammar Nazis here? Does Hugh Jackman love, like, good grammar or nice easy-to-say titles?

RYAN REYNOLDS: It is a long way to go for a title. I think that's sort of part of the point. Just saying it alone, you're like, whoa! It's now the next Olympics. It takes a long time to say that.

SALMA HAYEK: Actually, Kevin, I am not only Mexican, I'm also dyslexic. So I always say, you know-- I get nervous when I have to say the name of the film because I get very confused with "Hitman's Wife Bodyguard" or "Hitman Wife's Bodyguard." I don't know which one is the right one.

- When she severed that dude's carotid artery with a beer bottle, I knew-- I knew right then.

KEVIN POLOWY: Salma, we got a taste for Sonia's butt whooping in the first one. But here we see she's like a bona fide killing machine, maybe a little bit of a sociopath. Does all that stuff-- like the gunplay, the fisticuffs, the stunts, does all that come pretty naturally to you.

SALMA HAYEK: In a way, you know. And if it doesn't, I try to-- I've shot a gun or two in movies in the past, and I have done some stunts. And I'm proud to keep doing my stunts. There's certain very dangerous moments where I say no. And there was one really funny one that I said, oh, no. I'm not doing that stunt.

We were hit by darts, and then Mr. Reynolds just starts like laughing-- before we start shooting, OK? He's just sort of like losing it right before the action. And we're like, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?

He goes [LAUGHS] and then he starts describing how he sees the scene, what's going to happen when we start falling because of the darts. And we were laughing for a long time. And Sam's laughing super loud. And then all of a sudden we said, yeah, that's right. Let the stunts do it. And it's not dangerous, but it's just a really compromising position, the way we fall.

RYAN REYNOLDS: Yes, my head falls straight into Salma's butt.

SALMA HAYEK: And my face falls straight into it Sam's crouch.

RYAN REYNOLDS: Sam's, yeah.

SALMA HAYEK: But it was not me, it was the double.

[LAUGHTER]