Salma Hayek: You go to the mecca. If you enjoy the process, it's your dream.
Kasi Lemmons: Once it happens it happens kind of suddenly. People remember.
Hayek: A lot seemed so shockingly absurd.
Lemmons: I read the book. Morgan Freeman, hopefully.
Hayek: How many times do you think I heard this?
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Lemmons: You’d see clothes that you just could not believe people walked out of the house looking like that.
Hayek: The parties, the makeup, the hair.
Lemmons: It’s so depressing.
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Hayek: We are sometimes so vicious toward one another. Violence frightens me.
Lemmons: It’s unavoidable. We want you to see it.
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Hayek: I wasn’t even me.
Lemmons: I’ve never tried to deliver a message.
Hayek: And you didn't even know what that was yet.
Lemmons: Oh, of course I did.
Hayek: Isn’t it sad?
—Raymond Cummings has contributed to Splice Today for 13 years.