Salma Hayek is joining a freak show. The actress has signed on to star opposite John C. Reilly in Universal Pictures’ horror drama “
Cirque du Freak,” which will mark her first acting role since her maternity leave.
Reilly will play a vampire who drafts a 14-year-old to serve as his assistant. The youth is turned into a half-vampire and becomes the catalyst in a battle between vampires and the rival Vampanese. Hayek will play Madame Truska, the bearded lady.