Salma Hayek thinks she was typecast in her career and couldn’t get comedic roles because of it.

It’s hard to believe that anyone could deny Salma Hayek anything she wanted, but apparently, filmmakers in the ‘90s did just that. The Magic Mike’s Last Dance actress told GQ that “I was typecast for a long time. My entire life I wanted to do comedy and people wouldn’t give me comedies. I couldn’t land a role until I met Adam Sandler, who put me in a comedy  but I was in my forties! They said, ‘You’re hot, so you’re not allowed to have a sense of humor.’ Not only are you not allowed to be smart, but you were not allowed to be funny in the ’90s.

yeah. Apparently, a woman can’t be both beautiful and funny. That’s just too much. People’s heads would explode, right? Luckily, Salma Hayek was finally given the chance to prove that, not only is she a talented serious actress, but also a talented comedic one. And you know what? No one’s head exploded.

It’s hard to believe that anyone could deny Salma Hayek anything she wanted, but apparently, filmmakers in the ‘90s did just that. The Magic Mike’s Last Dance actress told GQ that “I was typecast for a long time. My entire life I wanted to do comedy and people wouldn’t give me comedies. I couldn’t land a role until I met Adam Sandler, who put me in a comedy,  but I was in my forties! They said, ‘You’re hot, so you’re not allowed to have a sense of humor.’ Not only are you not allowed to be smart.

yeah. Apparently, a woman can’t be both beautiful and funny. That’s just too much. People’s heads would explode, right? Luckily, Salma Hayek was finally given the chance to prove that, not only is she a talented serious actress, but also a talented comedic one. And you know what? No one’s head exploded.

Now here I am doing every genre, in a time in my life where they told me I would have expired that the last 20 years I would have been out of business. So I’m not sad, I’m not angry; I’m laughing.