Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sitdown Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

My guest this week really needs no introduction.

Her name is Salma Hayek.

You've known her and loved her probably since 1995 when she got her big break in the

movie Desperado with Antonio Banderas.

She had moved to Los Angeles four years before that from her home country of Mexico where

she was a star in a telenovela but decided she wanted more.

She wanted movies.

She had to get to Hollywood and she broke out pretty quickly.

Of course, the crown jewel of her career was her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in

the 2002 movie Frida, a film as you will hear in our interview, which really she had to

move mountains to get made.

She took her eight years, I think, to have that movie made because she was pushed back

from the studio.

She ended up having to raise the money for production herself.

She had to go out and sell the movie and recruit a director and recruit all the co-stars

and get everything in place even helped to rewrite the script before she could get that

movie made and it really paid off, of course.

Despite all her success, as you will hear her discuss, she fought for a very long time

and to some extent to this day, Latina stereotypes in Hollywood, even as her career was growing

and she was in successful movies, she found herself being offered the same kind of roles

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