Salma Hayek's a 'Freak'

Zap2It.com | January 11, 2008

Salma Hayek

Actress will appear with John C. Reilly in the vampire drama 'Cirque du Freak'

Salma Hayek is ending her maternity leave to co-star with John C. Reilly in a new vampire drama.

According to Variety, Hayek will play the Bearded Lady in "Cirque du Freak," from director Paul Weitz.

Based on the children's book series by Darren Shan, the film focuses on a vampire (Reilly) who hires a 14-year-old assistant without knowing that his young ward is only half-vampire. This escalates tensions between the vampires and the Vampanese. We don't know what that means, but it's probably bad.

Hayek and fiancee Francois Henri Pinault welcomed daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault into the world in September.

An Oscar nominee for "Frida" and producer (and sometimes guest star) of ABC's Emmy-winning "Ugly Betty," Hayek has most recently been seen in "Across the Universe," "Ugly Betty" and "Ask the Dust" (which won her Mr. Skin's top honors for best nude scene of 2006).