Actress Salma Hayek is defending her full-frontal nude scene in the latest film "Ask The Dust" saying the shot is a vital part of the story.

According to contactmusic.com, Hayek appears naked in a short beach scene with co-star Colin Farrell in the romantic drama directed by Robert Towne.

She says: "I don't want to do nudity just for the sake of doing nudity. But this is an iconic part of the story from the book.

It's important because it represents my character Camilla's spirit, which is very free, and yet she lives in world where she is very repressed by the circumstances. So the nudity is almost symbolic for who she is."