MANILA, Philippines - Shot in an apartment where groups of armed men take turns to shoot and kill a woman named Everly, Salma Hayek plays the title role in Everly — a non-stop intense action thriller where her character is forced to fight off a series of assassins sent to her by a former lover and mob boss.
Director Joe Lynch takes the viewers in an emotional rollercoaster ride as the heroine, Everly is put under a series of action scenes breaking the boundaries of the genre. Salma, for her part, had loved the badass character of the heroine but wanted to add more depth into the character and injected heart within the action and has thus added three generations of strong women in the film who have to deal with a very dangerous predicament.
“Salma was looking for something that would effectively capture those feelings of being a mother and the lengths a mother will go to protect her child. I don’t know what would have happened with the movie had Salma not pushed for this,” recalls director Lynch.
Everly is now showing in theaters nationwide.