“I’m a performer, and I have my work.”
You know Javier Bardem from tons of things — but did you know that he was once a stripper?
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OK, OK, let’s not get out of hand here. It was only for one day. We’ll explain everything.
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So, during an appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Javier said that he once hopped out of a cake for a friend’s fiancé when he was 20 years old.
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Later that night, he recreated his routine on the dance floor — and the owner of the club took notice immediately.
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“The owner of the disco said, ‘Will you do that every Friday?’” he said. “And I said, ‘Yeah, of course!’ because I was drunk.”
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“Then they hired me, and I had to perform the next Friday.”
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But Javier got the jitters before showtime — so, he called his mom for help.
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“I was so nervous, I called my mom and my sister to accompany me to my striptease number,” he explained.
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So his family joined him, as he danced to Joe Cocker’s “You Can Leave Your Hat On” and wore “a tuxedo that I would open.”
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“There was nobody — I think there were, like, three people there?” he recalled. “And it was very embarrassing, but I did it! I’m a performer, and I have my work.”
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Watch the interview here.
