<p>Actress Salma Hayek has revealed her "Desperado" co-star Antonio Banderas once gifted her two monkeys on birthday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Hayek, who turned 49 on September 2, was treated to a birthday cake and a pinata during her appearance on US chat show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and she confessed the surprise did not come close to her best present.<br /><br />"I had fallen in love with these two monkeys that were supposed to be in the movie 'Desperado' and then they got cut out. I was spending all my time with them and they were gonna take them away and I was sobbing because they were actually staying with me. I was devastated," she said.<br /><br />"The next day was my birthday and he (Banderas) gave me this big box and my monkeys came out of it. He gave me the monkeys... They lived for a long time and very happily."<br />The Mexican beauty called the apes Carolina and Mariachi after the characters she and Banderas played in the cult 1995 film.<br /><br />"Mariachi was so nice to me, he was kinda in love with me; he wanted to be with me all the time and of course Carolina was jealous. That witch was awful to me; she was so possessive. She'd go crazy when we were hugging, and so we had a little bit of a (love) triangle," she said. <br /></p>
<p>Actress Salma Hayek has revealed her "Desperado" co-star Antonio Banderas once gifted her two monkeys on birthday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Hayek, who turned 49 on September 2, was treated to a birthday cake and a pinata during her appearance on US chat show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and she confessed the surprise did not come close to her best present.<br /><br />"I had fallen in love with these two monkeys that were supposed to be in the movie 'Desperado' and then they got cut out. I was spending all my time with them and they were gonna take them away and I was sobbing because they were actually staying with me. I was devastated," she said.<br /><br />"The next day was my birthday and he (Banderas) gave me this big box and my monkeys came out of it. He gave me the monkeys... They lived for a long time and very happily."<br />The Mexican beauty called the apes Carolina and Mariachi after the characters she and Banderas played in the cult 1995 film.<br /><br />"Mariachi was so nice to me, he was kinda in love with me; he wanted to be with me all the time and of course Carolina was jealous. That witch was awful to me; she was so possessive. She'd go crazy when we were hugging, and so we had a little bit of a (love) triangle," she said. <br /></p>