Salma Hayek pays tribute to late Fools Rush In costar Matthew Perry on his birthday: 'Thinking of...

The &34;Frida&34; actress shared memories from her onscreen romance with the &34;Friends&34; star on what would have been his 56th birthday. Salma Hayek pays tr

The "Frida" actress shared memories from her onscreen romance with the "Friends" star on what would have been his 56th birthday.

Salma Hayek pays tribute to late Fools Rush In costar Matthew Perry on his birthday: 'Thinking of you today'

The "Frida" actress shared memories from her onscreen romance with the "Friends" star on what would have been his 56th birthday.

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Published on August 19, 2025 08:33PM EDT

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Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek in 'Fools Rush In'. Credit:

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Salma Hayek is remembering her late rom-com costar, Matthew Perry.

The *Frida* actress shared a tribute to her *Fools Rush In* castmate in an Instagram post on Tuesday, which would have been the *Friends* star's 56th birthday.

"Thinking of you today Matthew," Hayek wrote in her caption, alongside the Spanish translation, "Pensando en ti hoy, Matthew."

Salma Hayek at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes on May 18, 2025.

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The post featured a still of Perry and Hayek (who was clutching a small dog) from the 1997 film, as well as a short clip from the movie in which Isabel (Hayek) brings her new boyfriend Alex (Perry) to a large family gathering.

"This is a family dinner?" Alex asks upon seeing the size of the party.

"I guess a lot of people couldn't make it," Isabel responds.

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Hayek previously memorialized her late costar, who died in October 2023 from the acute effects of ketamine, shortly after his passing.

"Two days ago, I woke up to the shocking news that Matthew Perry is no longer with us. It's taken me a couple of days to process this profound sadness," Hayek wrote on Instagram at the time. "There is a special bond that happens when you share dreams with someone, and together you work towards them."

*Fools Rush In* tells the story of a New York architect and a Nevada photographer who share a whirlwind romance after a one-night stand leads to an unplanned pregnancy.

In his 2022 memoir *Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing*, Perry remembered Hayek frequently sharing a "very elaborate and lengthy idea" about how they should approach their scenes together, but noted that "her long-winded ideas weren't always helpful" in the end.

Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek in 'Fools Rush In'.

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"There's one scene in which I'm professing my love for her," Perry recalled in his memoir. "She suggested that we don't look at each other — rather, we should look out at our future together. After listening to this nonsense for about twenty minutes, I finally said: 'Listen, Salma,' I said, 'I'm telling you I love you in this scene. You look wherever you want, but I'm going to be looking at you.'"

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However, Perry remained fond of the project decades after its release, describing it as "probably my best movie" in his book. The actor said that he was particularly touched by advice he received from the film's director, Andy Tennant.

"I was bouncing around doing my funny little things, and [Tennant] would take me aside and say, 'You don't have to do that. You're interesting enough to watch without doing that,'" Perry remembered in his book. "That line of thinking allowed him to pull out of me one of the best performances of my career. Could this be a different way of saying Matty, you're enough, the words I've been longing to hear my entire life?"**

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