Pakistan, Feb. 6 -- Hollywood Femme fatale Salma Hayek did not plan for a badly reviewed Adam Sandler movie , Grown Ups, to reset her career but that is exactly what happened.

By the time Adam Sandler's Grown Ups arrived, Salma Hayek had already spent decades proving herself. She had broken out of Mexican television, crossed into Hollywood in the 1990s and become closely associated with action-heavy roles through her work with Robert Rodriguez. Those films made Salma Hayek a star, but they also boxed her in. Hollywood kept coming back to the same narrow idea of who she was allowed to be on screen.

Even acclaimed dramatic work like Frida failed to fully change that perception. Salma Hayek wanted rbad' movieange, especially comedy, but th...