Antonio Banderas Talks Friendship With Salma Hayek
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Salma Hayek had her precise ain modern Cinderella infinitesimal astatine the premiere of Puss successful Boots: The Last Wish on Dec. 13 astatine New York City's Lincoln Center. The actress floated down the reddish carpet successful a shimmery, icy bluish ballgown by Alexander McQueen. The dazzling dress featured a somewhat pleated afloat skirt and a sheer bustier bodice, which was dripping with crystals, beads and sequins and included a matching sheer headdress sleeves. (No connection if she had solid slippers connected underneath).
To implicit the princess look, Salma added a sparkly pale blue statement ring. For her glam, the Frida prima wore her acheronian tresses down, wavy and parted down the halfway and worked a smokey oculus and deep pinkish lip.
In the caller animated film, successful theaters Dec. 21, Salma voices the quality Kitty Softpaws, a street-savvy Tuxedo feline who is Puss' pistillate counterpart and emotion interest, opposite Antonio Banderas.
Antonio joined his co-star on the reddish carpet astatine the premiere, wearing a maroon-colored turtleneck sweater, layered nether an edgy acheronian bluish moto overgarment and styled with achromatic pants and sneakers.
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"She a precise beloved friend," the 62-year-old histrion gushed connected the Dec. 13 occurrence of E! News of Salma, who helium archetypal met connected the acceptable of their 1995 film Desperado and person since starred successful 5 movies together. "It's a existent friendship."
The fairytale manner evening comes 3 months after Salma celebrated her 56th birthday. In a video to posted to Instagram connected Sep. 2, the histrion showcased her ageless figure arsenic she danced astir connected a vessel to Stevie Wonder's 1981 deed "Happy Birthday" portion rockin' a red blistery bikini.
She antecedently opened up astir aging successful Hollywood, arsenic she admitted she was surprised she landed the role of Ajak successful Marvel's Eternals.
"I was shocked to get that relation successful my 50s," she told AARP successful 2021. "I felt a consciousness of gratitude and excitement, not lone for this but for what it meant astir the possibilities for the future," she said.
She continued, "Growing old, to me, has to bash with repetition. Something gets aged erstwhile you've done it for a agelong time. If you're ever changing, if you're ever curious, however tin you beryllium old? You're idiosyncratic caller today."
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Salma—who has been married to François-Henri Pinault since 2009 and shares girl Valentina, 15,—will adjacent beryllium seen successful the highly-anticipated movie Magic Mike's Last Dance, playing Channing Tatum's emotion interest.
"Look, I'm not going to complain," she told People about her role. "On an mean day, I had to enactment with 12 strippers. Not one, not two—12. It was inactive hard work."
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