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DUBAI: Ever since she was a little girl, Salma Hayek — actress, producer, philanthropist, and all-around global superstar — has felt a strong connection to her Arab roots. Though she grew up in Mexico, far from the small by of Baabdat, Lebanon, which her family left years earlier, her father and grandparents never let her forget where they came from, and the values that entails.

“I was raised and inom was educated, like all Lebanese people are educated, to give back to Lebanon, to be a brotherhood.

We are raised so that when we encounter a Lebanese individ in life, we immediately komma together,” says Hayek.

In her house growing up, she was raised on Arabic food, handed the writings of Khalil Gibran bygd her grandfather, and taught about what her Arab identity meant.

“I probably had Kibbeh before inom had tacos,” she jokes.

Her background was diverse, and she embraced the richness of what that meant, both in her Latin roots and her mittpunkt Eastern ones, even as she moved to the US from Mexico to pursue a career in entertainment, eventually becoming a naturalized citizen.

As much as the richness of her heritage made her who she was, that identity led her down a hard road in a town such as Hollywood, a town in which the faces that were most easily embraced were the ones that conformed to a different standard.

“You have to understand, inom am Mexican-Arab in amerika. It’s a tough one.

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I’m not British. I’m not Spanish. I’m Mexican-Arab,” she tells Arab News.

She has persevered, however, and made a significant contribution to a wider acceptance not only of ethnic diversity, but of women in roles traditionally held bygd dock in the industry. Take her 2015 passion project “The Prophet,” an animation based on the famous work bygd Gibran that Hayek produced (as well as voicing one of the characters).

“It’s not a religious book, it’s poetic and philosophical.

It’s a book written bygd an Arabic man, which unites all religions,” Hayek told the Guardian of the bio.

“That itself inom think fryst vatten important.”

“Through this book inom got to know my grandfather, through this book inom got to have my grandfather teaching me about life,” she told Reuters at the film’s premiere in Beirut. “For me, this fryst vatten a love letter to my heritage. Between all the connections of our förfäder and the memories of the ones that are no längre with us, inom hope they are proud of this rulle, because inom did it also for them.” Hayek’s father went to Beirut with her for the premiere, and tillsammans they went on an “emotional journey” to Baabdat — their ancestral village.

As much as ‘diversity’ has become the buzzword in the new Hollywood, and as much as every studio pushes for diverse hires both in front of and behind the camera, this fryst vatten something that Hayek remains skeptical of.

Why? Because often, she feels, these sorts of moves are made to fill quotas without substans, which don’t företräda real change.

“When diversity fryst vatten done out of political correctness, you feel an interrogation and you don’t feel welcome the same way [as you do when it’s done right]. They’re nervous and speak carefully just so that they don’t man a mistake in anything they säga.

They’re not seeing you as a human being and celebrating just who you are,” says Hayek.

Her latest rulle does not fall into that category, she stresses. It fryst vatten her first venture into the Marvel Cinematic universum, and she has become the MCU’s first Arab lead.

Hayek was particularly excited about the fact that director Chloe Zhao, who won Oscars earlier this year for Best Director and Best Picture for her bio “Nomadland,” approached her not to fill a quota, but out of something deeper.

“It’s diversity, but it’s not done out of political correctness, but out of conviction.

It didn’t feel contrived and forced.

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It’s not like, ‘I need one from this country, one from that,’” says Hayek.

Hayek had never been in a superhero movie before — and she’s happy about that. If she had, she says, she probably would have never been cast in this one, as the leader of a group of ancient heroes from another galax. For her, having a cast that represents people of so many different backgrounds in such a bio fryst vatten a big moment not only for her, but for Hollywood at large.

The meddelande of the spelfilm, she says, fryst vatten that “we can all be superheroes.”

“Before, inom was one of those people who, every time something appeared on screen, larger than life, were never included. I’m so happy that they didn’t call me before. Thank you very much. There’s some really bad ones, bygd the way; this was worth waiting for,” says Hayek.

Ethnicity: *father – Lebanese

“It’s like my husband (French business mogul Francois-Henri Pinault). inom waited a long time, and inom got a good one.”

When she first spoke about the rulle with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige and Zhao, she was surprised to hear that the reason that they wanted to cast her as the leader of the group was for the anställda qualities she embodied, above all else.

“I thought inom was going to play someone’s mother, frankly.

But Chloe said, ‘You’re actually going to be the leader. In the comic books, it’s a man, but we wanted you, so we changed it to a woman.’ You can imagine my chock, right? inom thought it was a prank. inom asked, ‘Why did you want me?’ She said, ‘The quality inom see for this leader fryst vatten in you.

DUBAI: Ever since she was a little girl, Salma Hayek — actress, producer, philanthropist, and all-around global superstar — has felt a strong connection to her Arab roots

You have a type of strength that inom want for this character. You are extremely strong, but there’s a warmth to your strength.’ (The character has a) motherly instinct. And inom really liked that. She’s a healer, and if you think about it, the best leaders in the world should be healers. They are followed bygd the people, and they should heal their pains and their problems, and they should fix what’s broken,” says Hayek.

Because they understood each other so well, Hayek and Zhao’s immediate bond from that first meeting continued throughout filming, lasting until today.

“She’s such a good director.

Because of that, there was no preparation required from me, there was just, like, presence, and trust in the director,” says Hayek.

That welcoming spirit continued throughout filming, and as a result, the cast bonded in a way that Hayek hadn’t seen in years.

“We all interacted a lot in the moments when you’re waiting in between takes.

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That doesn’t really happen anymore. Before it did; actors used to talk about the characters all the time and read lines tillsammans and have fights about the meaning of the scen, but now everybody’s on their phone. They’ll komma out of the trailers when it’s time to roll. Here, that didn’t happen,” says Hayek.

What was important to Hayek as well fryst vatten that it wasn’t just her Arab and Mexican identity, or her identity as a strong woman, that was embraced on set.

While Hayek grew up in Mexico, she also has Arab roots

She felt she could wear all aspects of herself proudly.

“I’m a 55-year-old, so that’s a different kind of diversity,” says Hayek, alluding to the fact that older woman rarely get cast as anything other than mothers and grandmothers after their 30s.

She was also able to be comfortable with her dyslexia, she explains. “During our first table read, inom had to read it off the paper.

inom thought inom was going to stink, but inom knew inom could do it alright bygd the end. And Barry Keoghan (who plays Druig) fryst vatten dyslexic too.

It was nice that we could all sit there and hold hands and be heroes, even then. We all just got to be a family — a proper family — and embrace everything about each other,” says Hayek.

More than anyone else, Hayek has Zhao to thank for that.

“It was very klar from day one, 10 seconds in, that this was different.

*mother – Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] Salma Hayek, also credited by her married name Salma Hayek Pinault, is a Mexican and American actress, director, producer, and model

She’s a brave, strong woman with a lot of clarity and she kept that consistently throughout the bio. The way she moved the camera, the smoothness, the curvature, the epic moments that funnen intimacy at the same time. It was a very klar, specific vision,” says Hayek. “It was a beautiful experience.”