How Salma Hayek's Role in 'Four Rooms' Led to 'From Dusk Till Dawn'

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- I'm not going to drain you completely. You'll be my slave.

SALMA HAYEK: They were casting strippers for Four Rooms, where 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.

I'm not going to go be-- I don't know, I've never done the strip. He goes, just put a bathing suit on. I said, what am I going to wear? Put a bathing suit on, and we won't see your face.

So I did it, 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, and George Clooney was saying, how come she doesn't look at us? Because I'm the writer.

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SINGER: Oh, it's only up to [INAUDIBLE].

SALMA HAYEK: Quentin told me, oh, by the way, you're dancing with a snake. I said I can't-- I can't do it. It's my greatest fear, and he said, well, Madonna would do it. I already talked to her, and she's willing to dance with the snake.

And it was good, because I had to overcome my greatest fear. I had to [INAUDIBLE] to do the dance, and it was improvised. The dance is improvised. There was no choreography, nothing, because you cannot choreograph the snake. We don't know what she's going to do.