She earned an Academy award nomination and the best reviews of her career from playing the iconoclastic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

But Salma Hayek revealed the Frida shoot wasn’t all fun and games in a video posted by Vogue on Friday.

The 53-year-old actress said she was ‘severely injured’ by a monkey featured in the movie, though she later reunited with it for a photo shoot.

Fierce battle: Salma Hayek revealed her Frida film shoot was marred when a monkey viciously attacked herin a video posted by Vogue on Friday; pictured Wednesday

Salma was filmed at a desk wear a black sweater over a colorful 1960s-inspired shirt and a floppy psychedelic-patterned bow tie.

The Like A Boss star had her brunette tresses styled in gently undulating waves that cascaded over her shoulders.

She went through a variety of her most ‘iconic looks,’ dating back to her early career when it was difficult for her to obtain designer clothing, forcing her to improvise her style.

One look she gave special attention to was a stunning red off-the-shoulder dress, which she wore with her raven locks in a braided crown tied with a green silk ribbon.

Through the years: Salma sat at a desk wearing a black sweater over a colorful 1960s-inspired shirt and a floppy psychedelic-patterned bow tie as she went through some of her iconic looks

Gorgeous: One look she gave special attention to was an Annie Leibovitz photo featuring stunning red off-the-shoulder dress, which she wore with her raven locks in a braided crown

The photo, taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue, was inspired by Salma’s then-recent appearance in Frida as the title character.

‘This next one is 2002 when I did Frida and this was in Vogue, and I was very proud to be part of Vogue for the first time in my life,’ she said.

The actress sported the fake monobrow she wore in the film, but it was the shocked-looking monkey perched on her shoulder that Salma remembered most.

‘This monkey, who was named Tyson, actually attacked me during the filming of Frida,’ she said, adding that the attack left her ‘severely injured.’

Assaulted: ‘This monkey, who was named Tyson, actually attacked me during the filming of Frida,’ she admitted, adding that the attack left her ‘severely injured’

Like a boss: ‘I was brave enough to let him come back and work again in the movie, and then I still did a photo shoot with him for Vogue afterwards’

Despite their bad relations on set, she was willing to reunite with her co-star for the magazine shoot.

‘I was brave enough to let him come back and work again in the movie, and then I still did a photo shoot with him for Vogue afterwards.

‘I was really hoping he wouldn’t go for my face,’ she added.

When Frida played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2002, Salma revealed that she had to use fake eyebrows to create Kahlo’s distinctive unibrow.

‘My interpretation of her obsession with her eyebrows is that for her it represented freedom,’ she said. ‘But if anything, it made me feel regretful because I used to have one eyebrow and I was stupid enough to go through the pain of plucking them. Of course, now I need them.’

Unorthodox beauty: Her role as Kahlo earned Salma an Oscar nomination. She wore a fake unibrow and shaved her upper lip to make the stubble more visible for the part; shown Wednesday

She also shaved her upper lip for the role in order to make the stubble more visible.

The film earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In 2018, Salma was a vocal critic of a Frida Kahlo Barbie, which removed her iconic unibrow and featured a lighter eye color.

The actress stars in the new comedy Like A Boss, which was released on Friday.

She plays the owner of a massive cosmetics company who attempts to steal a fledgling makeup business from two younger entrepreneurs, played by Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne.

In theaters now: The actress plays the devious owner of a massive cosmetics corporation in the new comedy Like A Boss, which was released on Friday