Machete's Danny Trejo Got a Salma Hayek Tattoo Before He Met Her
Salma Hayek always has just the best stories to tell – apparently, the same goes for her tattoo stories!
It's not uncommon for fans to get their favorite celebrities tattooed on their bodies. It is uncommon for other celebrities to get celebrity tattoos on theirs.
In 2016, actress Salma Hayek went on The Graham Norton Show, and she had the best revelation to share about her many-time co-star Danny Trejo.
Before he became an actor, Trejo was incarcerated for years for drug dealing and armed robberies. While he was in prison, he got "a huge tattoo of a woman" on his chest.
After learning the craft of acting behind bars, Danny broke into the industry and landed on the set of 1993's Mi Vida Loca, which coincidentally was the first movie Salma Hayek ever made.
What are the odds?
Salma was just 27 at the time, and someone on the production team warned her that she was going to be working with the actor who had been in prison, which understandably scared the young actress a bit.
However, her first interaction with Trejo couldn't have gone any smoother! When the actor first met Hayek, he "ripped his shirt off" and said, "I knew you before I knew you!"
His reaction was prompted by the fact that he had a tattoo of a woman who "looked exactly like" Salma Hayek.
According to the actress, "the body was a little bit better," but otherwise the resemblance was uncanny!
The interaction didn't end there (and it only got better).
Danny went on to say that he was happy to be out of jail but for Salma, he would "rob another bank" if she asked him to. This is legit the best pickup line ever!
Three decades later, Danny Trejo and Salma Hayek are still very friendly and can't get enough of working together.
So far, they've starred in six movies alongside each other – 1993's Mi Vida Loca, 1995's Desperado, 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn, 2003's Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, and 2014's Muppets Most Wanted.
Those two seem to be quite the power duo! Maybe we will see them together on the big screen again sometime soon?
Source: The Graham Norton Show