-My first guest tonight is on Oscar-nominated actor
who stars in the new movie "Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard,"
which is in theaters tomorrow.
Here is Salma Hayek!
Yeah!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Come on. Oh, so happy to see you.
Salma! -Jimmy!
-Ah. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
I appreciate it. I follow you on Instagram.
And it's -- You're a good follow.
And you're really fun.
I just thought this was very interesting here
on your bio here.
If you see -- It's all emojis.
-[ Laughter ] -Yes.
'Cause you're supposed to describe yourself.
And I'm lazy trying to, you know, philosophize
and come up with a couple of sentences about who I am,
so instead I just picked all the emojis
that have anything to do with my life.
And that represents who I am.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Wow. A lot of things.
There's an octopus on here.
Can you explain the octopus?
-Yes. I'm a diver.
And so I have most of the aquatic animals.
And I remember -- I've had some encounters with octopus.
One that I really remember, very clearly, is an octopus
that came and went on my mask and started exploring me.
And you cannot panic. -Wait.
-And you have to, like, bite down on your bite
because they can pull it out, or the mask.
And it was so weird what I was seeing at the beginning.
Then it goes black.
But it was kind of magical seeing it.
-Oh, my God. -And then he went away.
I remember dating guys like that when I was younger.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my God. Oh, my --
Thank goodness those days are over.
-...lot of memories... -Yeah.
-You know, can I tell you something really random
that I just remember?
My brother -- I don't know. He used to call them Octopussy.
And I'm like, "That's not a word."
But he kept calling them Octopussy,
which is very inappropriate.
Never mind. We're done with the Octopussies.
[ Laughter ]
-No, that's a James Bond film. Sure, it's a word. Sure.
If we were playing Scrabble, I'll give him the points.
[ Laughter ]
Also, you're in this giant Marvel movie, "Eternals,"
and it just got announced, and the trailer came out.
It broke the Internet in half. Were you psyched?
I mean, did you go, "Oh, yeah. I know how to do this."
Is it like another action -- I know you've done action films.
-No. I was shocked. Can you imagine?
You get a superhero character in your fifties?!
Mexican. Woman. In your fifties?
-Yeah. For you. I would see you do anything.
You can do anything! -I couldn't believe it.
-But did you have any superhero moments?
You're in the movie, and you got a -- whew! --
or a green-screen thing or something?
Are you on wires? What are you doing?
-My most exciting moment --
It was very unexpected.
Because there are superhero moments, but the coolest one
was galloping in a meadow with a horse.
And that's when I thought to myself,
"Not only I'm doing a Marvel superhero movie,
but I'm doing, like, a really different, cool one."
-See? When we see that scene...
When we see that scene, I'm gonna be clapping for you.
I love it.
This week, you star in "Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard."
This is two of our favorites. Ryan Reynolds and Sam Jackson.
Congrats. This is the second one. They wanted more of you.
They wanted more of you.
So, yeah -- So you got your own spin-off kind of.
-Kind of -- Well, it wouldn't have been
so hard to get more of me
because I only worked two days on the first one.
-Yeah. -But I was very lucky 'cause
now I worked the entire movie on this one.
And I have to say that I started practicing
saying the name of the movie since we were shooting it.
Because I am dyslexic.
And "Hitman's Bodyguard Wife,"
"Hitman's Wife Bodyguard," "Bodyguard's Wife's Hitman."
I mean, I get really confused. -"Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard."
"Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard."
-Bodyguard, yeah. -Yeah, exactly right. Yeah.
And you play the hitman's wife.
-Exactly. -That's right. Exactly.
[ Laughter ]
And Sam plays -- Sam Jackson plays the hitman.
And Ryan Reynolds is our bodyguard.
-God, he is so funny.
There's a lot of swearing in this film.
I'm surprised. Samuel L. Jackson.
I know the --
But I was going to ask you -- 'Cause I rarely hear you swear.
Did it rub off on the real Salma Hayek?
-Oh, completely. Completely.
I have to be very careful because I still have
a little bit of Sonia that comes out here and there.
And I have my daughter.
And one time, I was just -- She just went, "Mom!"
And I said, "Oh, it was not me. It was Sonia."
-Yeah. That's good, yeah. -So now I use it every time
that I say something that I shouldn't say.
I just say, "It was not me. It was Sonia."
-Yeah, and it's kind of fun
to have a curse conversation
with Samuel L. Jackson, isn't it?
-Well, it's fun,
but it was very intimidating at the beginning.
-The best.
-I was like Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver"
in front of the mirror practicing my "mother..."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, uh-huh.
-You know, because I have to say it in front of him
a lot of times, and it's quite intimidating.
-Yeah, yeah. It's good.
Well, we had a hard time finding a clip
because there's so much cursing.
No, no. I'm joking. I'm joking. It's very funny.
It's action-packed. We have a clip.
Here's Salma Hayek in "Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard."
Take a look at this.
-Come on! Let's go!
[ Engine revs ]
♪♪
[ Indistinct shouting ]
-Take the gun.
-No, I'm not doing guns right now.
[ Tires screech ]
-I got it.
♪♪
[ Gunfire ]
♪♪
Wait, wait, wait! No, no, no, no, no!
There's got to be a safer way down.
There's maybe like a switch -- Okay.
[ Laughter ]
-[ Cheers and applause ] -See?
-That's right! Come on! Always bringing it.
We love you. Salma Hayek, everybody.