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Washington:

Mexican-American actor Salma Hayek revealed that Hollywood blocked her from starring in a comedy for almost 20 years as a result of she was deemed too attractive for the style. According to Variety, an American media firm, she made the revelation in a brand new interview with GQ UK.

Although Hayek has appeared in romantic comedies similar to 1997’s ‘Fools Rush In’ and ‘Breaking Up’, she claims that it wasn’t till 2010’s ‘Grown-Ups’ that she was given the chance to star in a traditional comedy movie.

Hayek complimented Adam Sandler for lastly permitting her to be humorous.

“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 [2010’s ‘Grown Ups’], but I was in my forties! They said, ‘You’re sexy, 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,” Hayek mentioned.

Talking about whether or not being blocked from performing in comedies annoyed her, she mentioned, “I was sad at the time… But 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. I’m laughing, girl.”

Meanwhile, Hayek is returning in a romantic function for Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’. She performs the elder love curiosity of Channing Tatum’s eponymous stripper within the last version of the ‘Magic Mike’ franchise, as per Variety.