Salma Hayek is always been an elegant and glamorous star. She again showed her star material at Lebanon to launch Kahlil Gibrans The Prophet. She looked a stunner. Salma Hayek is in Lebanon, her first visit to her ancestral homeland, to launch Kahlil Gibrans The Prophet, the animated feature film she co-produced and lent her voice to. The actress visited the picturesque mountain village of Bcharre in the north of the country on Sunday to pay homage to Gibran, a Lebanese-born poet who wrote the book on which the movie is based.
Let us have a private moment in this place that we dreamt so long to be a part of, Hayek said before entering the Gibran Museum. The Prophet, written in 1923, has inspired generations of artists. It consists of poems about love, joy, sorrow, work and spirituality, and has been translated into at least 40 languages. Gibran who moved to the United States in the late 1890s and died there in 1931 was also a sculptor and painter influenced by the English Romantics.
Hayek posed with a sculpture of Gibran outside the museum and dipped her feet in nearby mountain-spring waters before visiting his tomb and viewing his work. The films director Roger Allers, who also directed Disneys Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, accompanied Hayek.
I have been living with the spirit of Gibran for the last three years and it has been a very intimate experience, and now to come to his home is very moving, he said. The film tells the story of a friendship between a young girl and an imprisoned poet. This framing device is used to tell eight individual stories from The Prophet, each of which was produced by a different animator, one of whom is the UAEs Mohammed Saeed Harib.
Quoting from Gibrans book, Allers said: Work is love made visible. And I really feel that about this movie. The film debuts on Thursday in Lebanon. Distributor Mohammed Fadallah said it will be showing in 20 theatres there before a wider release in the Arabian Gulf region and North Africa. It earned praise last year when it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Hayek arrived in Lebanon on Friday. The Mexican-American actresss paternal grandfather was Lebanese and immigrated to Mexico. Salma Hayek Jiménez is a Mexican American film actress, director and producer. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and went on to star in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley) for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. In 1991 Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as Desperado, Dogma , and Wild Wild West .
Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida as Frida Kahlo which she received an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress. The movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special in 2004 for The Maldonado Miracle and received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007 after guest-starring in the ABC television series Ugly Betty.
Hayek’s recent films include Grown Ups acting alongside Adam Sandler, and Puss in Boots , which also features former collaborator Antonio Banderas, wherein she is the voice of the character ‘Kitty Softpaws’. Hayek has been a spokesperson for Avon cosmetics since February 2004. She formerly was a spokesperson for Revlon in 1998. In 2001, she modeled for Chopard and was featured in 2006 Campari adverts, photographed by Mario Testino. On April 3, 2009, she helped introduce La Doña, a watch by Cartier inspired by fellow Mexican actress María Félix.
Hayek has worked with the Procter & Gamble Company and UNICEF to promote the funding through disposable diaper sales of vaccines against maternal and neonatal tetanus.
She is a global spokesperson for the Pampers/UNICEF “partnership” 1 Pack = 1 Vaccine to help raise awareness of the program. This “partnership” involves Proctor & Gamble donating the cost of one tetanus vaccination (approximately 24 cents) for every pack of Pampers sold. (Pampers diapers cost approximately 25 cents each, or about US$1,000 per child per year in the US market).
In 2011, Hayek launched her own line of cosmetics, skincare and haircare products called Nuance by Salma Hayek, to be sold at CVS stores in North America. She was inspired to create a cosmetic line from her grandmother, who used to make her own facial care products. Hayek was also featured in a series of Spanish language commercials for Lincoln cars. In spring 2006, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas displayed 16 portrait paintings by muralist George Yepes and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez of Hayek as Aztec goddess Itzpapalotl.
Salma Hayek appears determined to win a few olés on the promotional trail for her latest movie. She flaunted her incredible curves as she arrived for the New York premiere of Grown Ups in a summery cream strapless dress and sky-high red heels. The previous night, the 43-year-old wore a very revealing black leather top which showed off her famous curves for an interview with Jimmy Fallon.
Hayek made an appearance on his TV show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, to plug the film, in which she stars alongside Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and David Spade. The movie is about a group of high school friends who reunite as adults after their basketball coach dies. But rather than fashion and film, the actress was more interested in talking about her other passion – football. She was revelling in France’s early departure from the World Cup after their loss to her team, Mexico. ‘I am a huge soccer fan,’ said Hayek, who is married to French businessman Francois-Henri Pinaul, 46.
Hot mamma: Salma’s body bounced back after giving birth to daughter Valentina two years ago. ‘It was a bit of a sticky subject. When Pinault came home from work I had decorated the whole house Mexican. There were Mexican flags everywhere and I invited all my Mexican friends.’ ‘We were all really loud and after we won all the French people went home and we stayed up and partied and he couldn’t get to sleep.’ ‘We kept going with the tequila – he was like “Where am I? I thought I was in Paris!”
The Frida actress said she was keeping positive about Mexico’s next game against Argentina on June 27th. ‘Now we have to play against Argentina, its really difficult, they’re probably the best team in the World Cup. ‘The Virgin of Guadalupe must be so busy right now with all the Mexicans praying – we need a miracle – but we can do it.’ The Mexican beauty married her French husband on Valentines Day 2009 in Paris, where they now live full time.
They have a daughter together, Valentina Paloma Pinault, who is two and a half.Salma shot to fame in the 1995 Robert Rodriguez directed film Desperado, alongside Antonia Banderas. Her most notable performance was in the 2002 biopic Frida, in which she played Frida Kahlo, the Mexican communist painter. She was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a SAG award for her portrayal of the character.Hollywood star Salma Hayek looked dangerously close to spilling out of her dress as she filmed the TV show 30 Rock in Brooklyn in New York City. The actress’s fashionably vibrant orange dress struggled under the strain of her Rubenesque figure, its plunging neckline only just managing to preserve her modesty. Earlier this week the actress nearly exposed herself as she appeared on a German TV show.
Her ornate dresses plunging neckline nearly gave way as she lent forward while talking to the host. But yesterday there was no time for fooling around as Salma threw herself into the role. Between takes – Salma is making a guest appearance on the show – there was only one thing on her mind – her beautiful baby girl Valentina.
