SONY,^ UNIVERSALi! How’s your day been going?” says Salma
Hayek, marching through the door of
a suite in Berlin’s Regent Hotel. “How
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describes: “Hurricane Hayek.” Dressed in
a black jacket, trousers and boots, with
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stands with her assistant, rubbing
moisturiser in her hands and touching up
her lipstick. But when she sits, the
‘Hurricane’ subsides and she’s all ours.
Hayek’s clearly delighted to be back at
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women, Hayek had felt the brunt of his
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monster,” she wrote in an essay for The
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whether it was propositioning her with
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the process of making 2002’s Frida, the
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nominated for an Oscar.
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features with Bardem, husband in real life
to Penélope Cruz, who has been her best
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writer, Hayek features as his “childhood
sweetheart” Dolores, a woman nursing
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projects Tale Of Tales, Beatriz At Dinner and
The Hummingbird Project, it’s a timely
reminder of just what a powerful screen
presence she is.
Then, later in the year, Hayek makes
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this is OUR time!”
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starring Peter Fonda, it’s another
surprising twist in her stellar career. Hayek
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years. What was it like working with
him on The Roads Not Taken?
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uncomfortable places. He’s like my
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because during the whole process of the
rehearsal... we rehearsed a thousand
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we were calling Penélope and [speaking
loudly in Spanish]... and Sally was like, “Oh
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said, “It’s like a gang.” But the most
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happened. The day we started working, we
went to the makeup trailer, and maybe
because we’re so comfortable with each
other, we didn’t talk to each other and it
was like two actors that met each other for
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and the other was the two actors that
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of the crew and the people in the makeup
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a party in Cannes, he drank champagne
out of your shoe! Do you remember that
at all?
I met him before that. I met him in
Madrid! It’s hard to know when you are our
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you’re talking about when we were on
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on the jury, we already knew each other.
But of course we knew each other and
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a gang! But we knew each other for a long
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