Salma Hayekmade sure she could nail her f-bombs before sharing the screen withSamuel L. Jackson.
WhileappearingonThe Tonight ShowTuesday, the Oscar-nominated actress, 54, said that she had to practice delivering swear words for the new movieHitman’s Wife’s Bodyguardsince she would be scene partners with Jackson, who’s known to tackle foul-mouthed movie dialogue.
“It’s fun, but it was very intimidating at the beginning,” she told host Jimmy Fallon of having expletive-filled exchanges with Jackson, 72. “I was like Robert De Niro inTaxi Driverin front of the mirror practicing my ‘mother—,’ " she added, gesturing in place of saying the full curse word, “because I had to say it in front of him a lot of times and it’s quite intimidating.”
Fallon also asked whether all the swearing “rubbed off on the real Salma Hayek,” to which the star answered, “Completely.”
“I have to be very careful, because I still have a little bit of [my character] Sonia that comes out here and there,” she explained, adding of her 13-year-old childValentina, “My daughter, one time I was— she just went ‘Mom!’ and I went, ‘Oh, it was not me. It was Sonia.’ Now I use it every time I say something I shouldn’t say.”
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Jackson previously explained how sayingswear words helped him cope with a childhood stutter, years before delivering well-timed cusses would make him famous on the big screen. He said onThe Howard Stern Showback in 2016 that he was bullied “to the point that I stopped speaking for almost a year in school.”
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For some reason, Jackson said the word “motherf—– helps him control the speech impediment. “I have no idea [how] but it just does,” he said with a laugh. “It clicks a switch that stops the ’d-d-d b-b-b,' because me, I stuttered really, really, really badly for a long time.”
Ryan Reynolds, Hayek and Jackson reprise their roles from the 2017 hit action-comedyThe Hitman’s Bodyguardin the newHitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, in theaters Wednesday. The sequel also stars Antonio Banderas, Morgan Freeman, Richard E. Grant and Frank Grillo.
source: people.com
