Salma Hayek further explained, "One of the things I was afraid of was Antonio — he was an absolute gentleman and so nice, and we're still super close friends — but he was very free. It scared me that for him, it was like nothing. I started crying, and he was like, 'Oh my God. You're making me feel terrible.' And I was so embarrassed that I was crying." While speaking on the podcast, however, Hayek made sure to convey that neither Banderas nor Rodriguez ever made her feel pressured into doing the love scene, calling them "amazing."
Her biggest anxieties and embarrassments from shooting the scene came from worrying over how her family would feel about it. "I keep thinking of my father and my brother," the 2003 Oscar nominee said. "And are they going to see it? And are they going to get teased? Guys don't have that. Your father will be, 'Yeah! That's my son!'" she said of the gender inequality of men and women shooting intimate scenes.
In the end, Hayek did take her father and brother to see the film, but they allegedly left the theater during the love scene and came back after. "You want your father to be nothing but proud of you," Hayek said (via The Hollywood Reporter).
