We are all anxiously awaiting Netflix’s release of the sixth season of Black Mirror and to see what crazy plots are in store for us. And while watching the show can be equal parts unsettling and thrilling, one of the new season’s stars admitted even she was quite scared during filming.

According to The Daily Mail, Salma Hayek, one member of this season’s star-studded cast — which also features Michael Cera, Aaron Paul and Rory Culkin — revealed to The Radio Times that her experience filming the show could be startling at moments.

Hayek told the outlet, “There are so many moments that shocked me in the script. There is one huge one that I had to come to terms with, and made me ask myself, ‘Do I really want to do this? Am I going to get in trouble?'”

Hayek plays a normal, everyday woman who discovers that a TV show with the premise of a dramatized version of her life is streaming on a worldwide platform.

The star continued, “It’s as if I created an alter ego where I could do the most disgusting, grotesque things that you would never do in real life … and have permission to do that.”

Nonetheless, Hayek persevered, and the experience proved to be worthwhile.

“It’s been absurd and a lot of fun,” Hayek shared. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play an interpretation of myself.”

Hayek also commented on show creator Charlie Brooker’s writing, saying that “only a mind like (his) could have come up with such a concept.”

Brooker, whose mind-boggling dystopian show currently has an 84% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, also made The Daily Mail’s headlines recently for testing out ChatGPT’s screenwriting abilities for a Black Mirror episode.

“The first thing I did was type ‘generate Black Mirror episode’ and it comes up with something that, at first glance reads plausibly, but on second glance, is shit,” Brooker told Empire Magazine.

Brooker blamed the results on the AI’s process, in which it “look[s] up all the synopses of Black Mirror episodes, and sort of mush[es] them together.”

“Then if you dig a bit more deeply, you go, ‘Oh, there’s not actually any real original thought here,’” Brooker continued.

In an interview with Netflix’s Tudum, Brooker shared, “I’ve always felt that Black Mirror should feature stories that are entirely distinct from one another, and keep surprising people — and myself — or else what’s the point?”

Clearly, this sentiment was extended to his cast, as well.

The five-episode sixth season of Black Mirror drops at 12 a.m. PT/ 3 a.m. ET June 15 on Netflix.