Sitting on a couch in a plush Knightsbridge lodge, Salma Hayek is every little bit as gorgeous as she seems on display. She's unexpectedly petite and the bombshell curves she highlights so magnificently on the red carpet are hidden beneath a black best and on- trend bottle green pleated leather-based midi skirt.
She's in London to encourage her most recent film, the Oliver Stone-directed thriller Savages, in which she plays Elena, the formidable empress of a notorious Mexican prescription drugs cartel.
Elena has a exclusive type. She sports the identical gobstopper-sized diamond necklace and Cleopatra- style wig in the course of the film. Hayek had solid tips about how she wished her to glance, suggestions which she claims Stone to begin with resisted against prior to relenting and allowing her innovative manage in excess of the character.
Hayek as Elena in Savages.
"I believe that a ton of gals that know they're planning to be portion of background somehow choose to have a character to be remembered by," she states. "They have a seem, and I assume that this lady sensed that in buy to endure in that earth and command this army of savages, she had to produce a character. She experienced to produce a character, a memorable character." She cites Cleopatra and US Vogue editor-in- main Anna Wintour as girls who have done just that.
The diamond necklace - which she tells us is in fact a piece of Bottega Veneta costume jewellery - was a specifically crucial factor of Elena's character and something Hayek took from "a quite powerful " and " really feared" Mexican lady with whom she became pals while filming her Oscar-nominated part in Frida in 2002, though she won't title names.
"I would arrive see her in the early morning and she would have a glass of Champagne and these diamonds that ended up this massive [she cups her fingers to display the dimension ] on her fingers at ten / eleven o'clock in the morning and I questioned her: 'Why do you put on them?' And she stated, 'because a single need to in no way forget - these remind me of who I am and what I have meant to the people today that gave them to me. But it truly is also so that the other types do not forget about either.' So I thought this was some thing that Elena would do… in my head it was provided by the husband, so it was like the crown, so that they'd in no way fail to remember the [late] partner, or who she was and what she experienced achieved."
Hayek's authentic - daily life spouse is in the same way highly effective, and equally as capable of supplying her with knockout jewels. In 2009, she married multi-billionaire François-Henri Pinault, the CEO of PPR, the company that owns the likes of Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Stella McCartney, Yves Saint Lauren and Bottega Veneta ( yes, the manufacturer from which she sourced Elena's necklace). Collectively they have a 5 - 12 months - aged daughter, Valentina, and Pinault also has two little ones from his first relationship as nicely as a son with supermodel Linda Evangelista - with whom he was included in a superior -profile court battle over maintenance repayments earlier this calendar year.
Hayek with her husband, PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault. Photo : Rex
I consult what it is like to have accessibility to clothing by some of the world's most talented designers, the things of several a girl's goals.
"I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest female in the globe, seriously," she says. "And still with access to everything I could possibly want I even now say 'Oh dear, what am I heading to wear currently ?! There is no ending to that problem !"
She's also rapid to point out that there are, amazingly, no Gucci/McQueen/YSL freebies. "He [François-Henri] nevertheless pays for it, so I sense often like I won't be able to just go and acquire anything at all I want, you know? I could, due to the fact he is really good to me, but I usually really feel I are unable to turn into that, some insane girl that comes and takes fifty percent the keep." Sarah Burton is her favoured designer - she calls her a "genius" who " styles outfits for gals like me".
Her vogue connections also suggest she's experienced "a tiny peek" of Hedi Slimane 's debut womenswear collection for Yves Saint Laurent, or Saint Laurent as it is now referred to as, which will be proven in Paris on October one. " It can be magnificent !" she enthuses, throwing her head again as she does so. Very well, it have to be great then.
Savages is unveiled on September 21.
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