# Is there a worse strip tease than Salma Hayek in From Dusk til Dawn? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363 "2010-02-02T11:58:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/21 "2010-02-02T16:10:33Z")
Another strange one was Grace Jones in _Vamp_. Like Hayek, she was playing a vampire stripper. She did appear topless but it was still unrealisitc as hell because we were supposed to believe that in a club full of regular strippers, Grace Jones dressed up like Ziggy Stardust was the most popular dancer. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/22 "2010-02-02T16:26:49Z")
I have the winner. How about the one from the Planet of the Apes remake. The older orangutan councilman’s chimpanzee trophy wife doing a dance with the veil as she starts to grunt and gyrate to the delight of her ape husband. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/23 "2010-02-02T16:33:15Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Other examples of non-nude stripping by the lead actress would be Jennifer Beals in _Flashdance_, Rosario Dawson in _Rent_, and Lindsay Lohan in _I Know Who Killed Me_. > > Lindsay Lohan, for God’s sake. She take her clothes off on public streets. What about Vivica A. Fox in “Independence Day”? Early in the movie, Will Smith is bummed that NASA won’t let him be an astronaut because his girlfriend is a stripper. All he’d have to do take the NASA director to the club, point to her on stage in her swimsuit, and say, “You call THAT stripping???” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/24 "2010-02-02T16:33:46Z")
Well, I thought Salma was pretty hot in that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/25 "2010-02-02T16:45:28Z")
I nominate pretty much anything Elizabeth Berkley did in Showgirls. Especially the lap dance that consisted of repeatedly ramming her crotch into Kyle MacLachlan’s chest. No amount of nudity could make those scenes sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/26 "2010-02-02T17:01:53Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > What about Vivica A. Fox in “Independence Day”? > > Early in the movie, Will Smith is bummed that NASA won’t let him be an astronaut because his girlfriend is a stripper. > > All he’d have to do take the NASA director to the club, point to her on stage in her swimsuit, and say, “You call THAT stripping???” She stopped in the middle of stripping because all the guys were watching the TV covering the alien invasion. Presumably, a regular night would have seen her doing the whole show. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/27 "2010-02-02T17:06:08Z")
Another vote for that being an extremely hot scene. The tequila pouring down her leg was genius. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/28 "2010-02-02T17:07:13Z")
Her dance was awesome. At that point in the movie, you’ve just been whisked through one of the raunchiest bars ever shot on film, another pair, even hers, wasn’t needed. And it distinguished her status any, mesoamerican vampire priestess and whatnot. Really, seeing that in the theater was the highlight of my 16th year of existence. If she’d gone topless, I may have snapped into a grand mal seizure. And from another decade and a half of Tarantino films and projects, I’ve realized what a foot fetish he has. So +1 to him for getting Hayek to do that hard liquor footjob shot trick to him on film for christsake. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/29 "2010-02-02T17:23:44Z")
To counter-balance all the unrealistic stripping by actresses unwilling to commit to the needs of playing a stripper, I offer - Marisa Tomei in [The Wrestler](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/). [Here’s a perfectly safe link of Marisa talking about learning stripping](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZH8A2s_6I). ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/30 "2010-02-02T19:11:02Z")
Not sure where folk have lived, but I’ve lived many places where nudity isn’t allowed at all in stripping, down to bikini only. While I’m sure the vamp club had no problem with nudity, I’m betting the investors in the film did, as they probably wanted to be able to release nationwide and not just to specialty theatres. Of course, if they were smart, they’d have at least tried for a an unrated version for DVD release… 😉 Then again, count me in with straight ladies who non-the-less think Hayak is the BOMB, and could do no wrong anyway. Hell, I thought the turn in Dogma was fun! And that was more burlesque than stripping. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/31 "2010-02-02T19:22:44Z")
Yeah, I think that scene if Teh Hawt, she’s a fucking vampire goddess from the Aztec empire; she put a spell on every man in that room. Only amatuers _have_ to get their tits out for that. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/32 "2010-02-02T19:25:49Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Not as bad as Jessica Alba in Sin City. Worst example of gratuitous non nudity ever. This, plus Salma had a motherfucking snake. That should count for a bit. Of course, if you don’t like feet, then subtract X points. ---
**Author:** ![eno801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@eno801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eno801)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/33 "2010-02-02T19:26:23Z")
I hear Jessica Biel does a good one , don’t know which movie just saw some pictures of it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/34 "2010-02-02T20:19:23Z")
> [@](#): > > I hear Jessica Biel does a good one , don’t know which movie just saw some pictures of it. _Powder Blue_, which came out last year. Biel, like Tomei, was willing to actually dance naked in order to play a character who danced naked. Others who have been willing to be authentic for the part: Asia Argento - The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Charlotte Ayanna - Dancing at the Blue Iguana Elizabeth Berkley - Showgirls Rae Dawn Chong - Fear City Susan Dey - Echo Park Gina Gershon - Showgirls Joanna Going - Keys to Tulsa Melanie Griffith - Fear City Daryl Hannah - Dancing at the Blue Iguana Elizabeth Hurley - Dangerous Ground Mia Kirshner - Exotica Kay Lenz - Stripped to Kill Lucy Liu - City of Industry Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt Penelope Ann Miller - Carlito’s Way Demi Moore - Striptease Sandra Oh - Dancing at the Blue Iguana Roselyn Sanchez - Yellow Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard Jennifer Tilly - Dancing at the Blue Iguana Vanity - 52 Pick-Up Gwen Welles - Nashville ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/35 "2010-02-03T01:32:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Powder Blue_, which came out last year. Biel, like Tomei, was willing to actually dance naked in order to play a character who danced naked. > > Others who have been willing to be authentic for the part: > > Asia Argento - The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things > Charlotte Ayanna - Dancing at the Blue Iguana > Elizabeth Berkley - Showgirls > Rae Dawn Chong - Fear City > Susan Dey - Echo Park > Gina Gershon - Showgirls > Joanna Going - Keys to Tulsa > Melanie Griffith - Fear City > Daryl Hannah - Dancing at the Blue Iguana > Elizabeth Hurley - Dangerous Ground > Mia Kirshner - Exotica > Kay Lenz - Stripped to Kill > Lucy Liu - City of Industry > Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt > Penelope Ann Miller - Carlito’s Way > Demi Moore - Striptease > Sandra Oh - Dancing at the Blue Iguana > Roselyn Sanchez - Yellow > Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard > Jennifer Tilly - Dancing at the Blue Iguana > Vanity - 52 Pick-Up > Gwen Welles - Nashville Thanks for helping me with my “movies I must rent” list. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/36 "2010-02-03T01:46:42Z")
I might win this thread. I submit the following: [Officer Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear) takes an undercover job posing as an exotic dancer in TJ Hooker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HRSr8QuMxQ) ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/37 "2010-02-03T02:11:59Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > I might win this thread. I submit the following: > > [Officer Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear) takes an undercover job posing as an exotic dancer in TJ Hooker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HRSr8QuMxQ) Wow that was bad! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/38 "2010-02-03T02:17:18Z")
Damn, she may be a Republican but I’d still… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/39 "2010-02-03T02:48:06Z")
A worse strip tease? How about Buffalo Bill in _Silence of the Lambs_? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363/40 "2010-02-03T03:00:33Z")
It wasn’t a striptease. Demi Moore in Striptease almost did a striptease. Now there is a director’s cut I’d like to see. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-worse-strip-tease-than-salma-hayek-in-from-dusk-til-dawn/527363.md?page=3)