Salma Hayek rose to prominence in 1995 with her feature film Desperado in which she appeared with Antonio Banderas. Salma Hayek had an intimate encounter with her co-star Antonio.

The Mexican-American actress and producer, 54, told Dax Shepard and Monica Padman’s podcast “Armchair Expert,” that she sobbed the whole time she shot the “Desperado” love scene with Antonio Banderas.

Hayek told the Armchair Expert podcast that she consented to shoot the sequence on a closed set with Antonio Banderas since the director Robert Rodriguez was her “bro” and producer Elizabeth Avellán was her “best friend” at the time.

“So, when we were going to start shooting, I started to sob [and said] ‘I don’t know that I can do it. I’m afraid,’” she recounted.

Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas in “Desperado.” Archive Photos/Getty Images

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“One of the things I was afraid of was Antonio — he was an absolute gentleman and so nice, and we’re still super close friends — but he was very free. It scared me that for him, it was like nothing. I started crying, and he was like, ‘Oh my God. You’re making me feel terrible.’ And I was so embarrassed that I was crying.”

“They were amazing, though,” she added. “We did the best with what we could do at the time, you know? They were so magnificent, this group of three people.”

Hayek, who would have been 28 at the time, went on to say that part of her surprise at the scene derived from the fact that it wasn’t in the screenplay when she originally agreed to do it.

Oh God, I’m gonna be in trouble – but the love scene was not in the script,” Hayek said.

“It was demanded by the studio when they saw the chemistry,” she explained, adding, “I had a really, really hard time with that.”

Hayek also stated that Rodriguez, “never put pressure” on her to do anything she didn’t want to do

“I was not letting go of the towel,” she said. “They would try to make me laugh. I would take it off for two seconds and start crying again. But we got through it. We did the best with what we could do at the time.”

The love scene between Banderas and Hayek in “Desperado” appears in short clips, which Hayek explained is because she was sobbing during takes. Rodriguez tried to get the actor into character, which she claimed helped her.

“When you’re not you, you can do it. But I kept thinking of my father and my brother,” she explained, adding that she wanted her father to be “nothing but proud” of her.

Salma Hayek was nominated for best actress for her 2002 movie “Frida.” Mike Marsland/WireImage/Getty Images

The film was the second installment of Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy, which also included the films El Mariachi and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

The Once Upon a Time in Mexico star will be seen in The Eternals and The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard in the near future.