When Salma Hayek caught wind of Marvel’s “Eternals” she was pretty sure she knew the role she would be cast in. “One day I got the call and I’m like, ‘What?’ And I thought, Okay, I’m going to play the grandmother.
I never thought I was going to be one of the Eternals. It doesn’t happen,” Hayek recalled to Elle of director Chloé Zhao calling her with the news. “When she told me I was one of them, I was like, ‘Me, Mexican, Middle Eastern?
Me, in my fifties? I’m going to be a superhero in a Marvel movie?’ Sometimes as a woman, as a woman of colour and with the age, you feel so overlooked,” Hayek explained. “It was one of those moments where you think, Okay, I held on in this industry, survived for this long.
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