Salma Hayek 'doesn't care' that Hollywood has forgotten her
Mexican actor Salma Hayek doesn't care that Hollywood isn't offering her any roles. Her last film was Everly and she has Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet coming out this week.
Salma Hayek says she's staying plenty busy, despite not getting offered too many Hollywood roles lately.
"I think they don't want me but I don't really care," said the Oscar-nominated actor. Hayek produced and voices a character in the animated film adaptation of Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran's 1923 book of prose poetry, The Prophet. It's a passion project, opening in US theatres on Aug. 7, that she said was partially inspired by her 7-year-old daughter Valentina Pinault.
Watch the trailer for The Prophet here
"It's meaningful. It's hopeful. It's uplifting. It's respectful. It honours children," Hayek said. "Many people tell me, 'But they are not going to like poetry.' Children love poetry. That's why we have the nursery rhymes and then we don't give it to them anymore. It's their first language. They think in metaphor.
"Hayek hasn't been as much of a red carpet fixture as she once was in the entertainment world. She said she's been busy with charity events.
"I've been getting awards from different places for the humanitarian work and I've had a lot of movies come out. Then there is my husband (French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault) also who takes me to many places. There's that stuff too and I've just been busy with life," she said.
Sitting in a long sleeve striped button-up Gucci wrap dress, the Frida actor scrunched her face to display lines when asked about turning 49 next month.
"No Botox yet, you can see," she said, adding that her 40s had been a "great adventure."
"You don't look as bad as you thought you were going to look. You don't feel as old as you thought you were going to feel. It's a myth. Forties are full of life," she said. "The only thing that is tough about the 40s is when you haven't had a child. This is awful."
She added, "And the men today are terrible because when you are coming to the 40s they ... start going away. But you know what? (Not) the good ones."
Here is the trailer for Everly
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