Hayek shares lap dance story
Before anyone flips Salma Hayek Pinault upside down in the future, they’d better check with her first to make sure she has underwear on.
The actor just told Jimmy Kimmel — and everyone watching his latenight show — about a semi-scandalous moment during filming “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” with Channing Tatum.
In line with the franchise built off Tatum’s history of working as an exotic dancer before making it in Hollywood, the movie features an elaborate sequence where Tatum gives Hayek Pinault a lap dance.
Dubbing the scene, ahem, “vigorous,” Kimmel declared, “He’s Channing all over your Tatum is what he’s doing!” But Hayek Pinault had specific details about part of the dance that didn’t make it into the movie. It happened when she and Tatum were rehearsing.
“I’m upside down, and my legs had to be somewhere, but upside down one loses sense of direction, and I didn’t do what I was supposed to do,” she said. “So I, in the rehearsal, I went, like, head down, almost hit my head ... he held on to my pants.”
Only one problem with that.
“I was really concerned because my pants — he was pulling, my pants were going away and I couldn’t remember if I had underwear [on] or not, in this moment,” she said. “So instead of putting my hands to protect my head, I just held on to the pants.”
Tatum didn’t understand, she said, and hollered, “Put your hands up! ... Put your hands up! Hold on to my legs!”
She just kept hanging on to her over-pants, in
case she had no underpants.
“I’m like, no no no, until everybody came in and kind of took me away from him,” Hayek Pinault said. “And he said, ‘What’s wrong with you?’
“I said, ‘What’s wrong with ME?’”
— Los Angeles Times
Latest Wednesdays mourn the original
“Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega paid tribute to Lisa Loring, the actor who originated the role of Wednesday Addams on screen, Tuesday on Instagram. “Absolutely devastated. Thanks for everything,” the 20-year-old “Scream” and “X” star wrote, sharing two images of Loring in the classic TV role. Ortega’s post has since expired but was reposted on Twitter by fans.
Loring died Saturday after a stroke, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg confirmed to Variety. She was 64.
The “As the World Turns” and “Fantasy Island” actor played the brooding daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams in the classic “Addams Family” TV series, which aired from 1964 to 1966. She was reportedly only 6 years old when she took on the role.
Ortega has updated the character in the Netflix spinoff that debuted in November and was directed in part by Tim Burton. The eightepisode mystery also starred Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in the 1991 film adaptation and the 1993 sequel “Addams Family Values.”
Ricci, 42, reacted to the news of Loring ’s death by posting a heartbreak emoji on her Instagram Stories along with a headline from Loring ’s obituary in the Hollywood Reporter.
— Los Angeles Times
Hasty Pudding honors Bob Odenkirk
Award-winning actor and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk will be feted Thursday as 2023 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Odenkirk, best known as shady lawyer Saul Goodman on “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” is scheduled to receive his Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast after which he will attend a preview of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 174th production, “COSMIC RELIEF!” “When choosing our 2023 Man of the Year, I immediately knew we better call Bob Odenkirk,” producer Aidan Golub said in a statement when the award was announced last month.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals has handed out a Man of the Year Award since 1967. Last year’s recipient was Jason Bateman, and previous honorees include Bob Hope, Dustin Hoffman and Sean Connery.
Actress Jennifer Coolidge has been named the group’s 2023 Woman of the Year.
She will be honored at a separate event on Saturday. — Associated Press