Actress and producer, Salma Hayek has established herself as one of the major figures in the empowerment of women in cinema.
But like many actresses, her career was not a long calm river and she could not escape the diktats related to beauty and physique.
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In full promotion of the third installment of
Magic Mike
where she shares the poster with Channing Tatum, the wife of François-Henri Pinault returned to one of his great regrets.
Indeed, in the pages of
GQ Hype
, she explains that she has long been cataloged as the sexy girl, which has closed certain doors for her.
"All my life I wanted to do comedy and people wouldn't offer it to me."
Before continuing: “I was told “You are sexy, so you are not allowed to have a sense of humor”.
Not only couldn't we be smart, but we weren't allowed to be funny in the 1990s."
Fortunately for the actress, Adam Sandler will change the situation and offer her a role in his comedy
Friends Forever
produced in 2010. "But it was in my forties!"
regret the actress.
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In any case, she freed herself from all these prejudices.
"I'm at a point in my life where I don't think my sex appeal is the only thing that's valued anymore.
[...] But if it was, I wouldn't care, because I've instilled enough respect around me from the people who really matter that I feel seen beyond that. »
And if she feels sad to have been pigeonholed at her beginnings, she laughs today to succeed in all genres "at a time in my life when I was told that I would have expired [...] So I don't am not sad, I am not angry;
I'm joking."
