The 1993 movie Salma Hayek was forbidden from even auditioning for: “I begged”While it’s not unusual for an actor, especially one who’s relatively unknown at the time, to be denied an audition for a high-profile movie, you can understand why Salma Hayek was left so affronted. Obviously, Hayek isn’t Chilean, but she’s of Latin heritage. Who did the movie cast as the Trueba family instead? Teri Polo, from the States, Brits Vanessa Redgrave and Sarita Choudhury, German Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Frenchman Vincent Gallo were also cast, but Hayek couldn’t even get a look-in. “When they were doing The House of the Spirits, I begged for an audition,” she recalled.