This weekend, Salma Hayek-Pinault costars in the family movie Grown Ups, as the uptight clothes designer wife of Adam Sandler, one of five childhood friends who reunite for a weekend in a lakeside cabin. Salma looks amazing and she plays the ice queen very well, but we couldn’t help but leave the theater less than satisfied.
Why were we left wanting more? Because Salma Hayek utters exactly ONE funny line in the whole movie! Granted, it was a good one (“That was a man’s ass?” she asks, as David Spade’s character climbs the stairs sin pantalones), but what a waste! Why cast Salma—who has proved both on the big screen and on TV that she can create funny moments—and then underuse her? Didn’t the casting directors see our four favorite comedic moments below?
30 Rock (2009): As the Puerto Rican at-home nurse to Jack’s mother, Salma balances working-girl nerve with sweetness. A highlight quote (when Jack warns her that his mother is difficult and hangs around in underwear):
Elisa: “You should have seen my grandmother in her later years. Do you know what kind of clothes old Puerto Rican ladies wear around the house?”
Jack: “No.”
Elisa: “Me neither, cause she never wore any.”
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