Hollywood actress Salma Hayek has been voted to have the ‘sexiest voice’ in a brand new study by lingerie brand Pour Moi.
Participants were given 100 celebs’ voices to listen to with Salma coming out on top. Her Latino accent had a seductive effect on listeners, who claimed her accent made her voice “sexier”.
Salma once opened up to Oprah Winfrey about having an accent in the Hollywood industry. She said: “Until then, I had never been discriminated against in my life; I was pretty and I was rich in Mexico. I’d tell the executives, ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger has an accent’.
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“They’d become so nervous because they had no answer for that. Arnold played mostly robots at the beginning of his career, and once the money started rolling in, all these directors and producers go deaf. They don’t see the colour, nothing. All the senses go. They just hear one sound – ka-ching!”
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She continued: “If I make the money with the accent, then they like the accent. Even for the roles I landed in those days, I was underpaid. Others kept saying, ‘Don’t take the money now, because this is your opportunity [to be seen]’.
“But everyone else is making a big fee. I’d hear, ‘Because they paid the man, there’s no money for the woman’. How many times do you think I heard this? Over and over.
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“Then I became a sex symbol. Now, how the hell did that happen? I don’t exactly know the moment when it happened, but all of a sudden I’m a bombshell. The way I discovered this was I did Desperado. I had a very hard time with the love scene.
I cried throughout the love scene. That’s why you never see long pieces of the love scene—it’s little pieces cut together. I’m crying most of the time so they have to take little pieces. It took eight hours instead of an hour. I nearly got fired.”
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The brunette beauty, 57, has beat big stars to the top spot including Florence Pugh who came in second and Gal Gadot who came in third place. In second place comes Florence, who has a distinctive deep tone to her voice that makes Don’t Worry Darling fans’ pulse race. Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot follows in third place, with her sensual soft tones and Israeli accent.
Everything Everywhere All At Once award-winning actress Michelle Yeoh and British supermodel Naomi Campbell follow this to make up the top five sexiest voices. Next up in the top 10 were Dua Lipa, Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Gillian Anderson, and Emily Blunt.
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