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Salma Hayekis counting her blessings. There are a dozen of them, to be exact.
The 55-year-old actress, who recently wrapped filmingMagic Mike’s Last Dance, the third installment ofChanning Tatum’s franchise about bumping-and-grinding beefcakes, reflects on the experience in the new issue of PEOPLE.
“Look, I’m not going to complain. On an average day, I had to work with 12 strippers. Not one, not two—12. It was still hard work,” she reveals.
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As PEOPLE previously reported, the Oscar-nominatedFridastarjoined the castof the movie earlier this year when Thandiwe Newton dropped out. “It’s the strongest love story, the strongest female character, from beginning to end,” Hayek says about her role. “How lucky am I?”
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Tatum, 42—who recently revealed that he gives a lap dance in the movie, tellingEntertainment Tonight, “that’s definitely going to be in the third [movie]"—has incredible moves, says Hayek: “If you thought he could dance [before], you are going to realize you haven’t seen anything. His dance skills—he just got better.”
As for whethershe’sthe recipient of the intimate dance in question? The actress declines to say.
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The past year has been a busy one for Hayek, who stole scenes in last fall’sHouse of Gucciand also produces the Hulu dramaSanta Evitawhich she calls “a thriller about a dead body.” The seven-part series, which is now streaming, recounts the strange saga of Argentinian First Lady Eva Perón, whose embalmed remains were stolen after her death from cancer at age 33 in 1952.
Military officers overthrew President Juan Perón in a 1955 coup and took the corpse, which was planned to be displayed publicly, because the First Lady had been so popular and still saw her as a “political threat” even after her death, says Hayek.
source: people.com
