--- description: Hayek takes out yakuzas with a machine gun in her new flick title: Watch Salma Hayek as a Trained Assassin in the 'Everly' Trailer image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt805740fe91e07297/6987775f2dce0155179dcaf2/ap178782615282.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Salma Hayek as a Trained Assassin in the _Everly_ Trailer  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 29, 2014 3:27 PM CUT  Honoree Salma Hayek Pinault poses at the "Make Equality Reality" event at the Montage Hotel on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Honoree Salma Hayek Pinault poses at the "Make Equality Reality" event at the Montage Hotel on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)Chris Pizzello—Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 29, 2014 3:27 PM CUT We may be in a mini-boom period for action films starring well-known actresses getting in touch with their violent sides. We’re still awaiting January’s _The Boy Next Door_, a _Fatal Attraction_\-style thriller starring Jennifer Lopez; last year’s _Lucy_, starring Scarlett Johansson as a supergenius causing havoc, was a surprise hit. And now comes _Everly_, which features Salma Hayek and her co-star — a machine gun. Hayek’s no stranger to overheated, pulpy material — after all, this is the same actress who ran away with Oliver Stone’s _Savages_ and made _Bandidas_. But _Everly_, whose trailer takes a break from gunplay only in order for a knife fight to break out, looks like something else entirely. Per the plot synopsis at [Indiewire](http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-salma-hayek-blows-away-bad-guys-in-trailer-for-the-raid-esque-everly-20141229 "undefined"), Hayek plays “a yakuza prostitute who has been working as an informer to the cops.” It would appear to be an unusually meaty role for an actress who, too often, has been wasted in projects like _Grown Ups 2._ _Everly_ is due out in 2015. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3648442/salma-hayek-everly-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3648442/salma-hayek-everly-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch Salma Hayek as a Trained Assassin in the Everly Trailer","datePublished":"2014-12-29T15:27:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:09:37.457Z","description":"Hayek takes out yakuzas with a machine gun in her new flick","url":"https://time.com/3648442/salma-hayek-everly-trailer/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt805740fe91e07297/6987775f2dce0155179dcaf2/ap178782615282.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt805740fe91e07297/6987775f2dce0155179dcaf2/ap178782615282.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Salma Hayek Pinault","caption":"Salma Hayek Pinault","creditText":"Chris Pizzello—Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3648442/salma-hayek-everly-trailer/","name":"Watch Salma Hayek as a Trained Assassin in the Everly Trailer"}}]}] ```