![]() But I didn’t know he was doing it to so many women. ![]() She was furious.” And why hadn’t Hayek told them? “Because he did the best movies, and I didn’t want to jade their experience professionally,” she says. So were Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz, who’s a very good friend of mine. “He was upset that I didn’t tell him before. Was her husband supportive of her writing the article? “Yes, absolutely,” she says. It really haunted me.”Īlexander Mcqueen Corset Dress and Belt (Prices Upon Request) VICTOR DEMARCHELIER “Because I’m strong, and I thought I was done with that whole story. “Emotionally, I was shocked by how much affected me,” Hayek says now. In a 2017 article she wrote for the New York Times, just as sexual assault allegations involving film producer Harvey Weinstein were starting to surface, Hayek claimed that while she was working with Weinstein on 2002’s Frida, he had threatened to kill her and demanded she perform a nude sex scene with a female co-star, refusing to proceed with the film unless she did so. Nguyen might be speaking of Hayek’s work in the film, but she’s equally fearless offscreen. “She stares you in the eye and she means business.” “Salma has this power that she owns,” he says. “And if you’re Mexican they’re practically nonexistent.” In fact, the movie’s director, Kim Nguyen, says the part was originally written for a man, “but then I thought, That’s so clichéd.” He says Hayek imbued the character with her own personality. Hayek’s character is determined to win at all costs, and the actress admits that it’s the kind of role that doesn’t come around often. In Hummingbird Hayek plays a trading tycoon who finds herself in competition with a former employee (Alexander Skarsgard) and his cousin (Jesse Eisenberg) as they battle to control a technology that could make its owner a fortune. At a time when she could be resting on her laurels, Hayek is choosing projects, like this month’s thriller The Hummingbird Project, that are as challenging as they are compelling. Given the influence she wields, Hayek could be unbearable, but she is charming company because she makes it seem as if success is chasing her, not the other way around. At the fittings she had input “on the shape, the materials, and the color,” and when she talked to the designer about her dogs-Hayek is said to have close to 30 pets-“we ended up embroidering one of them into the dress.” Her outfit was one of the event’s most talked-about ensembles. Joseph Altuzarra, who designed Hayek’s gown for the 2018 Met gala, says she “has an incredible confidence and power.” And, he continues, she is never afraid to take a risk. On top of that, she’s married to billionaire fashion mogul François-Henri Pinault and is courted by designers as a muse in her own right. Behind the scenes she is a dedicated social activist who works on a wide variety of issues, including women’s rights and domestic violence. She has been at the top of her professional game for decades, appearing in movies that garner box office success and critical praise. It is this same sense of ease that guides everything Hayek turns her hand to. “Sometimes I drink a lot, some days I don’t.” As if to prove this, she orders a bottle of San Pellegrino and barely touches it. “I don’t know how to explain it.” Does she, I ask desperately, drink a lot of water? Hayek shrugs. ![]() “I haven’t done an-y-thing,” she says when we meet at a West London restaurant, enunciating the syllables with flair. Standing five-foot-two, she looks like a Disney princess painted by Frida Kahlo. The actress and producer is 52, but she’s just as beautiful as she was when she first appeared onscreen in Desperado 24 years ago-the same high cheekbones, the same lambent brown eyes, the same perfect skin and lustrous hair. I’m trying to discern what Salma Hayek’s secret might be.
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