8 More Actors Who Got Famous Off Just One Scene
4. Salma Hayek - Desperado
Though it's tempting to list Salma Hayek's impossibly sexy dance scene in From Dusk Till Dawn as her single star-making scene, the truth is that she actually first turned heads the year prior in Robert Rodriguez's previous film, Desperado.
Hayek's Carolina is introduced to the audience in a manner both alluring and hilarious, her beauty proving distracting enough to cause a nasty car accident mere feet from where she's walking.
The scene has since become a popular GIF on social media, though Hayek herself admitted in recent years that she was actually terrified shooting the scene in case the low-budget stunt went wrong. In her own words, she was "s***ting herself."
Though the one-two punch of Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn ensured her sex symbol status throughout the back-half of the '90s, Hayek also went on to become an acclaimed actress in her own right, receiving a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Frida in 2003.