More than 20 years later, she found Weinstein’s opposite in her Magic Mike collaborators: Tatum, Soderbergh, and the film’s writer, Reid Carolin. But head-to-head, she ultimately prevailed.
In the piece she painted a vivid picture of a seemingly unrelenting David-and-Goliath-esque clash. In 2017, Hayek Pinault detailed her experience as a victim of harassment by Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul, while working on Frida, in a powerful New York Times op-ed. Critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination followed-though, as we learned during the height of the #MeToo movement, there was a dark side to the victories. As both producer and star of the biopic, based on the life of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Hayek Pinault poured herself into all aspects of the production, which took nearly eight years to get off the ground.
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Following an acclaimed run as the star of the Mexican telenovela Teresa, Hayek Pinault immigrated to the US in 1991, perfected her English, and spun a string of bombshell-type roles that were as memorable as they were sexy, including the tough-as-nails love interest to Antonio Banderas’s outlaw in Robert Rodriguez’s 1995 neo-Western action film Desperado (about which she recently shared her traumatic experience shooting a sex scene) and a literal angel from heaven in Kevin Smith’s 1999 fantasy-comedy Dogma alongside Ben Affleck and Matt Damon-into a bona fide acting career.īut it was 2002’s Frida, the movie that’s become almost mythic for its relentless pursuit of funding and red-tape cutting, that catapulted Hayek Pinault into the highest tier of celebrity. I’m like, ‘Hey bro, I get you.’”ĭuring the past three decades, Hayek Pinault has built the kind of Hollywood career that appears, from the outside, to be a one-in-a-million success story. “So, in that way, Channing and I were kindred spirits.
For me, it was from Dusk Till Dawn,” she says, recalling her 1996 star-making role as the dancing vampire queen Santánico Pandemonium. “I don’t know that I’ve worked with another man whose big bump in their career came out of a strip dance.
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