Apr 29 2008 Salma Hayek Has a Giant Beard (for 'Cirque du Freak')

After getting an Oscar nomination for her unibrowed lead role in Frida, Salma Hayek has upped the lady-facial-hair ante for Paul Weitz's Cirque du Freak, also starring John C. Reilly as a vampire. How will she top herself next time? Hard to say for certain, but there may be a clue in the title of her next movie: Female Versions of Those Creepy Wolf Boy Kids That Are Always on Maury Povich to Prove That They're Just a Couple Normal Teens Who Happen to Have Hairy Faces.

Salma Hayek Has a Beard [Just Jared]

Nov 15 2007 John C. Reilly Will Drink Your Blood

With all the hoopla surrounding films like Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, and Bridge to Terabithia--putting kids in fantastic, off-the-wall situations--it's about time someone made a smaller, more down-to-earth story, something any child could relate too. Like visiting an illegal freak show, meeting a vampire and a giant spider, and being forced into vampire servitude. You know, like when you were a kid.

Thankfully, About a Boy's Paul Weitz is making just such a thing, adapting Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak book series, and has cast John C. Reilly as the vampire. Why has it taken us this long to think of a curly-haired, kind of chubby vampire? I don't know. But at least we got there.

PS: I'm going on a short vacation, so there will be no new posts tomorrow. I'll be back Monday, refreshed and with a renewed enthusiasm in romantic-comedy trailers and Rambo posters.

Reilly gets his 'Freak' on with Uni [Hollywood Reporter]