I don’t dislike Salma Hayek, but sometimes I find her annoying. She’s not quite Goop-esque, but there is a streak of “here’s a rich woman, a billionaire’s wife, giving us life advice” to her interviews sometimes. Shockingly, her DuJour cover interview wasn’t that annoying. At the very beginning, she brings up one of her favorite subjects, how she’s all-natural and not into Botox. To which I say… sure, girl. Whatever you say. But I enjoy what she has to say about politics and Donald Trump. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
On Botox: “I don’t believe in Botox because your face doesn’t move, and it’s something you have to do for the rest of your life, more and more every time. I don’t look at things short term; I think of longevity. Listen, if there was something you could do that would keep you looking good, I would do it. But I’m in love with my husband, and I want to look like a lovely lady when I’m 70. I want him to see me and think, ‘Okay, my girl is old now, but there’s still beauty there.’”
She doesn’t need to work, but she enjoys working: “[But] I like it, it’s fun. I also think my family likes it. And I don’t have the pressure I had when I was younger… A lot of the time I choose the movies I do by convenience. I just take it one day at a time, I don’t do strategy. The most important thing in my life is my family, easily. I’ve never been away from my daughter for more than two weeks. Sometimes I do a movie [just] because I like the people.”
Her “sexy” role in The Hitman’s Bodyguard: “Now that I’m older, I don’t get [the sexy sidekick roles] as much. I did my own stunts. They said, ‘We have a stunt double, and some of the things are quite hard.’ And I said, ‘Well, let’s give it a try.’ And guess what? I can still kick really high! Mind you, the next morning I was full of bruises and I couldn’t move for two weeks but, man, did I show off that day!”
She looks her age (50) in Beatriz at Dinner: “At some point, [director Miguel] Arteta has the camera on my face for a long period of time. I thought people might find it boring: I had no makeup and it was badly lit on purpose. But I felt liberated to look ugly—imagine the freedom. You don’t have to spend time in hair and makeup. If you didn’t sleep the night before, you don’t have to mask it. It was so lovely. I would never have gotten the role of Beatriz if I had done something to my face. Sometimes with age, you get better characters. I love to play the mother, and I’ll be excited to play the grandmother. How boring to play that [sexy] part for the rest of my life. I think I’d shoot myself.”
On Donald Trump: “What do the supporters see? Every day the lies are being explained with facts, and then he says the press lied, and it’s like a parallel universe of disinformation. I find it really interesting how he constantly accuses people of the things he does. Crooked Hillary—he’s not crooked?! Liar! He kept saying she was one, but then he was lying all the time. It’s terrifying.”
How she’s raising her daughter with the state of the world today: “You have to balance presenting it realistically, but because my daughter is extremely curious, you have to be careful about the amount of information. You have to raise honorable, responsible human beings. At the same time, you have to keep them hopeful for the future. I stay hopeful because I believe the best teacher in the world is your mistakes. Maybe we will learn a lot from what is happening. I really do think things have to go a little bit south for people to come together and bounce back in a better way. This is how I see it.”
I feel for parents of young, curious kids these days, especially parents of daughters – how do you explain Donald Trump to them? How do you explain the current state of the country to them? How do you explain the rise of fascism, institutionalized misogyny, white supremacy and jingoism? Ugh. As for this: “What do the supporters see?” I keep asking myself the same thing. I read this WaPo story over the weekend about all of this middle-aged and older white voters in West Virginia who voted against their interests because they were taken in by the dumbest con-man in the country, and all I can think is… why did they do it? I have so little sympathy for those people, but I do wonder what goes through their f–king heads as they consistently vote against their own interests.
Photos courtesy of Mary Rozzi/DuJour.
I still don’t like her after that ridiculous dinner where she tried to talk down to Jessica Williams
That was my first thought. Self centered think piecing while ignoring her own liberal flavored racism and elitism.
Me too. And she feels liberated to look ugly? Bitch please! Her remarks about Trump are pretty much ‘Water is wet’ for rational people at this point so she gets no pass for that observation.
Sadly, there are many that feel BLM movement disregards other minorities’ struggles. It’s actually sad that some see it like that.
“A parallel universe of disinformation.” Yes, yes it is and I honestly don’t know where we are going from here. Trump and his band of goons’ demonization of the press has got to be one of the most disturbing things to happen in my lifetime.
As for explaining him to kids, I’m at a loss. My younger son, 16, is especially distressed, saying it’s hard to know what to believe anymore. It’s truly tragic.
Her views are well thought out and shared by many people.
Given the racism behind much a lot of Trumpism, it seems that people will vote against their self-interest as long as it goes against the interests of others they consider inferior to them, even more.
duh
I’m snickering over the “my husband will still find me beautiful when I’m old” comment. He’s an old dude himself – does she still find him attractive?? Did she ever??
I gagged at the “my girl is still beautiful.” Why do women – she’s 50! – insist on calling themselves girls??
Side note; I read the Washington Post article that was linked here, and it was both heartbreaking and infuriating to read about how those poor people can’t even be bothered to educate themselves on issues that directly affect their lives. It’s like they’re all so sick and hopeless they can’t even afford to care anymore. I don’t even know how to talk to Trump supporters at this point; if none of the facts that continue to be brought to light change their minds, then honestly I think nothing will. I don’t want anyone to die because of this health care plan that the GOP is trying to shove through, but I think that might be the only thing that will sway his supporters; his bigotry and misogyny don’t affect them directly, so they can ignore it in the face of all reason. However, when they and their families are not able to access life-saving health care, and when they finally realize that coal jobs are never ever coming back to save them, maybe then… maybe they’ll realize then how wrong they’ve been?
I miss Hillary. I miss sanity. I miss not being constantly exhausted by the need to watch what I say in public in case some random dude hears me and thinks he has to “educate” me as to why us “libtards” are the real criminals. I just… ugh. I miss good things… I hope we can all have nice things again eventually.
I wanna Extend SOME f*cks to Salma’s Outrage about Trump since we’re on the same side in terms of incredulity but then I remember the “Baby, Look at me” sh*t and that Instinct Disappears.. you want the solidarity and support that you’re too good to give your Black Sisters.. as a Good Old Country Model Minority Latina is wont to do, and sorry Ma’am If I snatched my own family’s edges at a birthday Party for starting the trash ass Dominicans are Better than Haitians Sh*t I MOST certainly can’t find my F*cks Purse for her No more.. her anxieties about her Aging Crumbling Frenchman and her looks Leave me equally unmoved… Her Plight Is super un-heartbreaking