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Following the long-awaited releases of Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings over recent months, the next instalment of the wildly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is poised to enthral us. Slated to open on 18 November, Eternals depicts the travails of immortal beings who reunite after millennia of hiding on Earth to battle their archenemies, the Deviants – and it promises to be the most diverse to date.
Much has been made of the fact that its core superhero cast will feature the franchise’s first openly gay character (Phastos), that Pakistani-American actor Kumail Nanjiani’s Kingo will be its first protagonist of South Asian descent, and Don Lee – of Train to Busan fame – the first South Korean superhero. What’s more, both director (Chloé Zhao) and lead (Gemma Chan) are Chinese. Rather less noise has resonated, however, over the casting of Mexican screen-siren Salma Hayek as Ajak, the Eternals’ spiritual leader. After all, the Desperado star will become the series’ first Arab actress (Hayek actually boasts Lebanese ethnicity through her father).
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A 32-year veteran of the industry, Hayek is no stranger to breaking boundaries. She was one of the first Latina talents to make it big in Tinseltown, in no small part due to her versatility in the genres of drama, comedy, romance and action. But life hasn’t been all smooth sailing for the Frida thespian. We shine the spotlight on the soaring highs and challenging lows that she’s overcome&#8230;
Peace &amp; Pesos 
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez was born far away from the shining lights of Hollywood in the southern Mexican port city of Coatzacoalcos on 2 September 1966. Her mother, Diana, was an opera singer, while her Lebanese-Mexican father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, worked as an oil executive in addition to owning an industrial equipment company. Her Lebanese surname reflects her paternal roots, while her first name ‘Salma’ means ‘peace’ in Arabic. She was fortunate to be raised in a wealthy home, which afforded her the opportunity to go to boarding school in the United States at age 12.
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Boarding School Blues 
Salma’s schooldays weren’t always easy, as she was diagnosed with dyslexia at an early age. This didn’t stop her from pranking her fellow students, however. In one interview, she recalled that her roommates – American girls – would wake early to curl their hair and put on makeup, whereas she’d rather “sleep until the last minute”. One day, she decided to turn back the clocks by an hour to mess with them. She was given detention, and ultimately kicked out of the strict Catholic boarding school in Louisiana. Despite these early hiccups and a learning disability, her innate intelligence saw her graduate from high school at just 15.
Acting Initiative 
Throughout her late teens and early 20s, her stunning looks prompted approaches from casting agents. So, halfway through pursuing a degree in international relations and political science at Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana, she dismayed her parents by dropping out to pursue a career in acting. At just 23, she had her big break, landing the starring role in Teresa, a telenovela that would catapult her to superstar status in her native land. Not content to rest on her laurels, she decided to move to Hollywood to pursue bigger roles. “I wanted to do films, and at that time in Mexico, a film industry didn’t really exist,” she explains. “So where do you go to do movies? You go to the mecca. I was already famous in Mexico by then, and they were laughing at me, asking ‘Why is she doing that?’”
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Desperado Times 
At first it seemed her critics were right since Hayek struggled for four years in California, unable to land a single role. In many cases, the reason cited by studios for her rejection was that she was too Latina. It wasn’t until 1995 that she got her chance to prove her mettle in Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado alongside fellow Spanish-speaker Antonio Banderas. Then, the floodgates opened, with the actress cast in a slew of major productions before the end of the decade – From Dusk till Dawn, Wild Wild West and Dogma, to name but three of her biggest hits.
Rosy Repertoire 
In 1999, having established herself as an A-list leading lady, Hayek launched her own production company. Ventanarosa, which is Spanish for ‘rose-coloured window’, produced the acclaimed TV dramedy Ugly Betty, which would eventually garner two Golden Globes. It also helped her hit Hollywood-legend heights by producing the historic biopic Frida (2002). Hayek’s seminal portrayal of the surrealist artist Frida Kahlo saw her become only the second Latina actress to receive a Best Actress nod at the Academy Awards.
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Charity Begins at Home 
In addition to her achievements in film, she is a dedicated philanthropist and activist. Spurred by an awareness of her own fortunate circumstances and the precarious position of those in her homeland, the Salma Hayek Foundation not only raises aid and awareness for battered women in Mexico, but has branched out to help disadvantaged street children, too. Hayek has also been involved with several Unicef initiatives, including spearheading a campaign against neonatal and maternal tetanus, and was awarded the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award by the international charitable organisation in 2018.
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Covid Survivor 
The Eternals star was recently worryingly close to death. Laid low by Covid-19, she spent seven weeks isolated in a room of the house she shares with her husband, French billionaire François-Henri Pinault (CEO of luxury group Kering), and their 13-year-old daughter. She became so ill that she was put on oxygen. “My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad,” she reveals, “but I said, ‘no, thank you. I’d rather die at home,’” adding that she still hasn’t regained her pre-pandemic energy levels.
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“My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad, but I said, ‘no, thank you. I’d rather die at home’”
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Auteur Ego 
In line with her go-getting spirit, though, this hasn’t stopped her from planning ambitious projects. Apart from Eternals, Hayek also appears in Ridley Scott’s biographical crime drama The House of Gucci, which was shot earlier this year, and hopes to direct a film based on a script she wrote 17 years ago. “It’s a very personal project and this is the right time. It couldn’t have gotten made two years ago or even last year [but] I don’t give up. I’ll get it made,” she says of the passion production. While she’s remained tight-lipped about any details, if her past CV is any indication, it will be an instant hit.
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<h6>(Text: Tenzing Thondup)</h6>

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Salma Hayek: Her journey to landing Marvels ‘Eternals’

The tide is rising in the Marvel multiverse, and there’s never been a more appropriate time to be a socially progressive fan of the superhero world.
Simu Liu, the 32-year-old Chinese-Canadian newbie actor of Kim’s Convenience fame, is shaking things at the white boys’ club. As the first Asian lead of a Marvel superhero film, he’s on the cusp of becoming the face of diversity, representing a population which isn’t all white, whilst carving out a permanent place for himself amongst Hollywood A-listers. 
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, due for release on 3 September, showcases a predominantly Asian cast, and pits superhero Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) against the terrorist group, Ten Rings, that was introduced in Iron Man. Social media sensation and Crazy Rich Asians’ actor Awkwafina also stars. 
We take a look at Liu’s rocky path to stardom, which mirrors the progress of the times.
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Canada Bound 
Born in Harbin in 1989, Liu was raised by his grandparents until the age of five. His parents had migrated to Ontario to complete their education at Queen’s University and “start a better life”. By 1995, they were financially secured for their son to join them, but the two generations of the family were complete strangers. In an open letter to his parents, Liu states, “I was excited to finally meet my real parents and start my life in Canada, but I had no recollection of you.” It was a period of resentment, tough adjustment and culture shock for the youngster. “We fought often… If I tripped on my laces, I was clumsy. If I scored below an A, I was stupid. If I wanted to hang out with my friends, I was wasting my time. I spoke dismissively about you, told you I hated you, and that I couldn’t wait to leave the house. But privately, I yearned for your love and affection.”
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From Accounting to Acting 
Like most Asian families, Liu’s highly qualified, aerospace-engineer parents raised him to pursue a career in the sciences. Little did they know destiny had other plans. After graduating from Western Ontario’s Ivey Business School by the skin of his teeth, he got an accounting job with Deloitte in its downtown Toronto office. It was crash and burn from the word go. Liu hated crunching numbers, Deloitte was not a fan, and after nine months, he was laid off. “The first round of cuts, and I was right out,” he recalls.
Ashamed and embarrassed, he considered leaping from the balcony to avoid facing his high-achieving parents. But the thing about hitting rock bottom is that you can only go up. A pink slip motivated him to try something new – performing arts – and he was instantly drawn to the world of acting.
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More than a Stunt 
Liu’s leading man status has been hard-earned. He started out as a stunt artist; Hollywood expected an Asian man in the industry to know martial arts. As a side gig, he performed stunts at birthday parties for extra cash. Serendipitously, it was a Craigslist ad directed him to his first acting role – an extra “deep, deep in the background” in the 2013 sci-fi film, Pacific Rim.
The aspiring star has always showed drive. Not one to sit back and wait for the ideal role or the perfect opportunity, he grabbed whatever came his way and gave it his all – and that tactic has paid off, big time!
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Plea to Marvel 
The struggling actor was “handing out dog-food samples on the side of the road in Toronto” when he put out this 2014 tweet, “Hey @Marvel, great job with Cpt America and Thor. Now how about an Asian-American hero?” Seven years later, he has just become one. 
Unbeknownst to him, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, often criticised for its affinity with conventionally handsome white males, was internally rebooting to stay socially and politically relevant in the #MeToo age. It was gearing up to unveil a swathe of diverse superheroes. Shang Chi, with its momentous Asian casting, promises to be one of this year’s marquee blockbuster releases. Simu Liu as a Chinese superhero has not only deepened the conversation around race and representation – the step up is also being seen as a huge leap for Hollywood – one that marks progress over profits and doesn’t reduce diversity to an act of tokenism, a stunt or a sidekick.
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Happy Convenience 
Years of toil on the acting fringes paid off in 2016 with a role in critically acclaimed Canadian sitcom Kim’s Convenience, the show about the day-to-day happenings of a Korean immigrant family. Liu plays one of the central characters, Jung Kim, in this smash hit; it quickly drew an avid following and was one of the most watched comedies on Netflix in 2018. Ironically, the show runs parallel to his own life and immigrant story.
Umma (Jean Yoon) and Appa (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) are mellow, easy-going folk, who gradually begin to see the world beyond the prejudices that surface with each new customer. Much like Liu’s own experiences, the children in the show – Janet and Jung – learn to appreciate their parents’ struggle, live through their idiosyncrasies and find love, care and support in their largely affectionless home. In the end, despite all the ups and downs, everyone pretty much gets along. Similarly, as Liu matured, he came to see the world through his parents’ eyes. His open letter is a tribute to them: “In hindsight, I know that you were doing the best. Money was always tight. And so you worked hard and often. You pushed me as hard as you could so that I would never have to know the struggle of not knowing where my next meal would come from.”
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Familiar Face 
With more than 30 film, TV and ad credits to his name, including Fresh Off The Boat, Orphan Black, Slasher and Bad Blood, the actor is increasingly popular on both the big and small screen. But you might recognise him from somewhere else. In 2014, during his dog-food promoting days, Liu did a photoshoot for iStock images for US$120 – a quick cash solution that he, at the time, didn’t realise would be splashed all over the internet – for countless job advertisements, bus posters and even as the cover of accounting books. “That stock photo shoot always finds a way to come back and haunt me. LOL”, he shares with his fans on Instagram.
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Turning Point? 
The world in which we grew up could not imagine an Asian as the face of a Marvel movie. Representation matters when you have millions of eyeballs forming an image of what heroes look like. Simu Liu’s starring role sends a powerful message – that in 2021, race, gender and sexual orientation should not come in the way of being a hero. Hopefully, the tide will continue to rise from one studio to another until the day issues of diversity will no longer be magazine stories.
(Text: Nikita Mishra)
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First Asian superhero in a Marvel movie: Simu Liu as ‘Shang-Chi’

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Former Miss Israel and mother-of-two Gal Gadot was catapulted to superstardom last year with the record-breaking success of <a href="http://wonderwomanfilm.com/">Wonder Woman</a>. After appearing in the second highest-grossing movie of the year (second only to Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Gadot made another appearance in Justice League (November), securing her place as 2017’s highest-grossing actress and third highest-grossing actor, period.
Considering’s Gadot’s relative Hollywood obscurity prior, these achievements are not to be sniffed at. It only took 70 years to bring Wonder Woman to the big screen – a rare female lead in a world of male superheroes. It’s also been more than 40 years since the character, played by Lynda Carter, appeared on TV.
Whether she intended to or not, Gal Gadot (that’s Ga-dote) has shown the world that women can rise to the top of their careers, be successful mothers and look fabulously fit all at the same time. Getting there was no small feat, though.
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Gadot prepared for her first appearance as Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman (2016) by training six days a week with horseback riding lessons, martial arts, sword fighting and weightlifting. By the time she shot her first stand-alone, hundred-million dollar movie, she had gained 7.7kg (17lbs) in pure muscle – spurring her husband to hit the gym more just to keep up with her physical prowess.
In Wonder Woman (2017), Gadot plays an Amazonian princess fighting against evil in World War I. Audiences the world over were shocked to learn that she had performed choreographed fights and running scenes while five months’ pregnant with her second child.
Born in Rosh Ha’Ayin, Israel, Gadot studied dance and played several sports in her youth. “I was a dancer for 12 years,” says Gadot, who did ballet, hip-hop, modern and jazz. Standing at 1.78m, she received offers to model throughout her teens. After high school, she was crowned Miss Israel in 2004 and went on to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant.
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&#8220;I was 18, and I had some time in between going to the army,&#8221; she told W magazine. “My mom figured, &#8216;Hey, why don&#8217;t I send your photo?&#8217; I got in but never thought I would win.” Despite her reservations, the experience paved the way to a career in modelling and exposed her to international travel.
After wrapping up Miss Universe and modelling for some time, she went home to serve two years in the Israeli Defense Forces – a mandatory requirement for all Jewish Israelis, both male and female.
“I wish no country had the need for an army,” she says. “But in Israel serving is part of being an Israeli. You&#8217;ve got to give back to the state … It&#8217;s not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.”
After the army, she enrolled in IDC Herzliya College to study law. Her studies were interrupted, though, when a casting director for Quantum of Solace contacted her after seeing her modelling card on her agency’s wall.
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&#8220;I said, &#8216;No way am I going to audition to be a Bond girl,'&#8221; she says. &#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;m studying law and international relations. I&#8217;m way too serious and smart to be an actress, and besides, the script is all in English.&#8221; Her first language is Hebrew.
She pursued the role nonetheless and received multiple callbacks, which required her to split time between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. “Throughout this process I realised that acting is so much more fun than going to law school!” she says.
While someone else was ultimately cast as James Bond’s love interest, the process got Gadot into acting. She started seeing an acting coach, then landed her first role in an Israeli TV series.
“I had finished my first year in school, and I decided to stop when I got that project,” she says. “Then that same Bond casting director cast me as Gisele in Fast &amp; Furious – my first movie.”
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After Gadot’s big screen Hollywood debut in 2009, she was asked to return for the sequels: Fast Five (2011), Fast &amp; Furious 6 (2013) and Furious 7 (2015).
“Whenever I met with producers, writers or directors, I said I wanted to portray a strong, independent woman,” says Gadot. “Cut to Wonder Woman.”
Gadot’s big break came when she turned 30, in a move she never imagined as a child growing up in small-town Israel. But before she became Wonder Woman, she had to endure numerous callbacks and screen tests, only to be let down repeatedly.
“It would be a ‘no’, over and over,” she says, recalling being on the brink of quitting. “Then my agent called and said Warner Brothers wanted to audition me for something.”
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Zack Snyder, the director of Batman v Superman, finally called and asked her, “Have you ever heard of Wonder Woman?”
“My jaw dropped,” she says. “I tried to sound nonchalant, like, ‘Oh yeah, Wonder Woman, sure.’” It was a whirlwind from that point up until Wonder Woman’s premiere on May 2017 in Hollywood.
“It should have happened a long time ago,” she says. “People are looking for (a superheroine), waiting for one, and I&#8217;m so happy and grateful to be the one who is actually doing it.”
At Comic-Con in July 2015, Gal Gadot introduced herself to an enthralled crowd. &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;ve been given such a huge opportunity to show the strong, beautiful side of women,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Finally, Wonder Woman is getting the respect of having her own movie!&#8221; The room broke out in wild applause.
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Beyond the big screen, she is playing another important role: mother of two. She and her husband, Yaron Varsano, are the&nbsp;proud parents&nbsp;of two little girls – Alma, six, and Maya, born last year.
“The Jewish guilt I feel about being a working mom is the hardest thing,” she says. “When Alma was around two, I was really anxious about moving her from one country to the other. It was my husband who told me: ‘Gal, think about what kind of a role model you want to be. If you want to show Alma that she can follow her dreams, that&#8217;s what you should do, and we will figure out the logistics.’”
Gadot believes feminism is part of being a woman and mother. “There are such misconceptions as to what a feminist is. Feminism is about equality. I want all people to have the same opportunities and to get the same salaries for the same jobs.
“I realise I&#8217;m doing what I want to do because of the women before me who laid the groundwork. Without them I wouldn&#8217;t be an educated working mother who is following her dreams. I wouldn&#8217;t be here.”
In October 2016, the United Nations invited Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter, the original Wonder Woman, to a special panel. The comic book heroine was named an &#8220;honorary ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls&#8221;. However, the event was sabotaged by protesters accusing the character of being “overtly sexualised”.
A petition signed by nearly 45,000 people prompted the UN to nix the campaign. Gadot said in response, &#8220;When people argue that Wonder Woman should &#8216;cover up&#8217;, I don&#8217;t quite get it. They say, &#8216;If she&#8217;s smart and strong, she can&#8217;t also be sexy.&#8217; That&#8217;s not fair. Why can&#8217;t she be all of the above?&#8221;
Text: Julienne C. Raboca 
 Photos: AFP

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