Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
GPs may tell you to get on their bike
hours at a time. She admits: “To be honest, it scared me. The story is very intense and our scenes go to very painful emotional spaces.
“As actors, we had to create this tense mood between each other and that was the most difficult part of making the movie for us because we both like each other. On our first day of shooting, we were both sitting in the make-up room and the atmosphere between us was completely different.
“We didn’t speak to each other – it was like we were meeting for the first time and over the next few weeks it was like I was discovering Javier as an actor for the first time.
“And you never saw any of the loving, personal friendship that we have in real life on the screen. That was really a challenge.”
She says Penelope feared the pair would act like playful children on set, adding: “She was worried that we would ruin the film because we were being so silly together!
“I’m best friends with Penelope. Sometimes when I need to talk to someone about the industry, I’m able to talk to her because she really understands me and my journey and what I’ve encountered because we’ve had similar journeys.”
Salma married Pinault – CEO of Kering, the parent company of brands such as Gucci and Alexander McQueen – in 2009. They have a daughter Valentina, 12, and live in London.
Salma says she’s learnt a lot from becoming a mother but needs to give her daughter some space. She says: “I have to be careful not to be overly attentive and give her some time to be on her own because I always feel this need to be with her. But I think I have learnt a lot from raising Valentina and being a very conscientious mother.
“Being able to devote yourself to others and experience that sense of responsibility also allows you to grow as an individual because you are not so focused on your own needs.”
Salma says Valentina is talented and creative and is already showing signs of following her into movies.
“I think she would make a very good director, writer, or actress,” says the proud mum.
Better watch out, Hollywood... it looks like the Hayeks are in for the long haul.
DOCTORS will be able to prescribe a bicycle for patients who need to lose weight, Boris Johnson will announce tomorrow.
Surgeries will fund hire costs or lend out bikes.
The PM has pinched the idea from ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had a cycling and walking plan at the General Election.
Bicycles are part of Mr Johnson’s obesity strategy, which will also ban junk food adverts before 9pm.
An estimated 35million British people are obese, including the PM, who has dieted since getting severely ill with Covid-19.
But shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Tory cuts, including to SureStart centres and healthy food vouchers, had worsened the UK’s obesity crisis.
Shooting a new movie with Javier scared me... the story is very intense
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