Salma Hayek: “First she is the family, the cinema is a second plate”

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Salma Hayek returns to the cinemas of the USA with “The Vampire” s Assistant “, two years after its last paper in the great screen, a time in which her daughter has been her priority: ” First she is the family, the cinema it is a second plate “, it said to Efe.

The Mexican does not work in a film from her fleeting appearance like the sensual nurse who danced and sang to the rate of “Happiness is to Warm Gun”, of The Beatles, in “Across the Univer” (2007), and her last papers protagonists were in “Bandits” (2006), next to her Penélope friend Cross, and “Ask the Dust” (2006), with Colin Farrell.

In September of 2007 her Valentina daughter was born Dove, fruit of her relation with the French multimillionaire Fran1cois-Henri Pinault, with whom the past contracted marriage in an intimate ceremony in Paris 14 of February.

Hayek appears to the thin and streamlined interview, shining black a garnet skirt abullonada, top and black booties of platform.

We are going it to do in Spanish? ”, Hayek asks, of 43 years, after several char them with average Americans. “Then no, in German or anything”, the interpreter of Veracruz said between laughter.

The actress shines radiating, contents to return to forward edge of Hollywood with a tape that takes advantage of the present fervor the adolescent public by the world of the vampires, caused by the saga “Twilight” or the series of television “True Blood” or “The Vampire Diaries”.

It had long time without working, been I have occupied with my producer (Ventanazul) and with my girl”, Hayek commented. “I concentrated in personal things; in order to return it did not want to make something very great, where it had much responsibility”, admitted the candidate to the Oscar to the best actress by “Frida” (2002).

Thus the interpreter explains his return to the cinema in the paper of a barbuda woman, Madame Truska, a component more of the circus of “freaks” that rambles by films, based on infantile novels of Darren Shan.

My girl was very small and wanted to make something that outside easy, that she did not have much paper. For me first she is the family, the cinema is a second plate. She wanted to wet the feet and to return to begin”, showed Hayek, that shares planes in the film with John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe and Willem Dafoe.

The tape counts the history of Darren, an adolescent of 16 years who, tired of his routine life, accedes to become an immortal vampire and thus to discover a world of strange beings with sinfín of peculiarities.

It is rare, interesting, different and bold a film”, declared the actress, who chose east project so that him “the script enchanted”. “It is a tape of great budget. In EE.UU they do not risk thus with works. There are vampires, fear… but it has an own tone”, added.

The Mexican is not other people's to the world of “chupasangres”. She already incarnated to one of them in “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996), the tape of Robert Rodriguez in whom Hayek contoneaba in bikini with an enormous serpent pitón to the neck.

I do not like the films of vampires. I do not feel that fascination. Of the film it attracted history and the script, but I know that the vampires attract people. The young people feel that fascination because in the adolescence it give account to you of your own mortality, and I believe that the idea of immortality seems to them of most attractive”, showed Hayek.

The beard that shines the actress in films was one of the elements of which it was spoken more during the previous months to the launching of the film, and Hayek hopes that his fans ***reflxes mng with that “look”.

“It is not the first time that I have beard! ”, it pointed Hayek, that remembered that in “After the Sunset” (2004) appeared disguised of vagabond. “There it took a mask with beard, moustache… much worse than in this one”, it remembered funny.

Between his next plans it appears the opening of the comedy “Grown-Ups” for the next summer, and in the last hours the American press has speculated on around its possible participation in “Women on the Verge of to Nervous Breakdown”, a musical comedy based on the film of 1988 of Pedro Almodóvar.

But at the moment it will not return to work in Spain, where the great life rolled “” (2000), of Antonio Cuadri.

It would enchant to Me to return, but I do not have it glided at the moment. Aside, I have left more near Paris (where she resides). Hopefully that all the directors who are seeing this interview send something to me good to do”, the actress declared, who said that after this parón without making cinema, she is “working more than ever”.