Although she is one of the most lovely and successful women in the movie industry, Hayek said she used to be afraid of turning 50 because she fears her career might end.
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Salma Hayek certainly hasn’t been as much of a red carpet fixture as she was a decade ago.
She now voices a role in the animated film “The Prophet”, which is based on Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 book of prose poetry. It’s uplifting. It’s respectful. “A lot of people tell me: ‘But kids are not going to like poetry.’ Children love poetry, that’s why we have lullaby’s”. Then there is my husband [French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault] also who takes me to many places. Kahlil Kahran’s The Prophet is out in the U.S. cinemas from Friday (7th August).
Do you miss the actress and wish there could be more recent Salma Hayek movies? “It’s their first language, they think in metaphor”, she added. “They think in metaphor”. She called his remarks a “very simple tactic for self-promotion” and said she is “not insulted because I cannot be insulted by stupidity”.
When Modarresy-Tehrani asked for a specific moment she experienced discrimination, the Mexican-born actress said there are “just so many” but she specifically recalled an incident in a Los Angeles movie theater when the actress and a friend tried to sit in the center of the theater near another patron. “There’s that stuff too and I’ve just been busy with life”.
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She said, “I saw the book on the table on the side of the bed of my grandfather, then recently rediscovered it and it was as if he was teaching me, even though he was gone, through the book”. You don’t feel as old as you thought you were going to feel. “The only thing that is tough about the 40s is when you haven’t had a child. (Not) the good ones”.
