Like many of her colleagues, Salma Hayek did not have it easy as a woman in Hollywood. One who always supports her is her husband.
The Mexican Salma Hayek (54, “Frida”) didn’t always have it easy as a woman in Hollywood. In moments when she was “going through the worst of times”, however, the actress could always rely on one person: her husband François-Henri Pinault (59).
Salma Hayek was “very lucky” with her husband
In an interview with “Welt am Sonntag”, the 54-year-old, who will soon be featured in the action sequel “Killer’s Bodyguard 2” alongside her two male colleagues Samuel L. Jackson (72, “Pulp Fiction”) and Ryan Reynolds (44, “Deadpool”) shows that she was “very lucky” with her partner. The French businessman, with whom she has a 13-year-old daughter, makes her “stronger”, she also says. “He always makes me feel like he really wants me to be successful professionally, that he understands what it means to be married to someone who is very creative.” As his wife, she therefore feels her freedom and his backing and is inspired by him. “I just feel safe with him, understood and supported by him,” says the actress, whose official name is Salma Hayek Pinault.
The male Hollywood stars that Hayek classifies as feminists in addition to her husband also include her current co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Antonio Banderas (61). The latter plays her adversary in “Killer’s Bodyguard 2”; privately, the two screen actors have been friends since their early career years. With Banderas at her side, the Mexican even made her breakthrough in the dream factory in 1995 thanks to the film “Desperado”. “Antonio is like family to me,” explains Hayek. “We have been friends for more than 20 years.” It is “always funny” when she meets the Spaniard on the film set.
“Why shouldn’t a woman at 54 kick other people’s asses?”
Another topic that comes up in the interview with Salma Hayek is getting older in Hollywood. “I don’t want to try desperately to look younger just to be able to play an action heroine,” emphasizes Hayek, who sometimes lets her film character make rough jokes about hormone fluctuations during menopause, and asks challengingly: “Why shouldn’t a woman at 54 not still kick others in the butt – even if she’s just going through menopause? “
There was still “a long way to go” ahead of her and her female colleagues, especially in the action genre, but “especially in recent years” opportunities have opened up for women both in front of and behind the camera. “That moved me a lot.”
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