Salma Hayek reveals why she was
discriminated against when she started in Hollywood.
She
did not have easy professional beginnings: because she was a woman, everyone
laughed at her from her dream of being an actress.
It
was a difficult moment, he felt unrecognizable, it was more than his beauty.
Although
she was the only Mexican and Latina in drama school, except for Benicio del
Toro, who is a Puerto Rican, and is a man. Nobody was laughing at him, for
Salma Hayek it was not easy to reach the top because even Mexico, all the
agents and in all the studios also laughed at her.
When
Salma Hayek recorded the movie "Frida" she was very excited to work
with Harvey Weinstein did not care about the money, with his naivety he thought
he had fulfilled his dream. Until he realized the person he was and what he was
going to do in the movie. She feels offended by the big sexual scenes in which
she had to interpret. And that's how Salma Hayek broke her silence about the
famous Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in an opinion column published in
the New York Times: she details the sexual harassment and abusive behavior on
the set of the movie Frida. Hayek's text comes to light two months after a
group of women, including actress Ashley Judd, publicly denounced the disgraced
movie mogul for the first time.
Hayek
battled legally to put the production back into action but doing so resulted in
numerous conditions virtually impossible to meet, such as rewriting the script,
raising $ 10 million for funding and selecting four famous actors for smaller
characters. Then came the actor Edward Norton, who rewrote the script without
demanding any credit, the producer Margaret Perenchi and the director Julie Taymor.
And they were the ones who brought the movie back to the movie afloat. It
started, "the sexual harassment stopped, but the anger increased,"
Hayek said.
Although
the scene was included anyway, but Hayek maintains that filming it caused so
much emotional anguish that he had to take a tranquilizer to be able to record
it. When the filming of the film ended, Hayek was so "emotionally
distraught" that she had to "distance herself during
post-production." Frida was nominated for six Academy Awards, including
Hayek for the Best Actress award, and won two Oscars.
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