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| | Salma Hayek Sizzles at "Puss In Boots" LA Premiere | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She's been hot on the promotional trail over the past few weeks, and earlier today (October 23) Salma Hayek stepped out for the red carpet premiere of ?Puss in Boots? in Hollywood, California.
The Oscar-nominated actress was joined by fellow castmates Antonio Banderas, Zach Galifianakis and Billy Bob Thornton as the ensemble greeted the gathered crowd lining the entrance at Regency's Village Theatre.
Set to be released on October 28th, the Chris Miller directed film tells "a story about the events leading up to the sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends."
Recently proclaiming how lucky she was to nab such a fabulous role, Miss Hayek (who voices Kitty Softpaws) dished, "I?ll tell you, I have a great win in this one. Everything [Puss] does, I outsmart him."
The 45-year-old added, ?How many times do you get a part where the female outsmarts [the male lead] every time in every way? And I?m always one step ahead, and [Kitty?s] actually a comprehensive character. I love her?I love her because she starts out one thing and she finishes as something else. [The movie] has an arc, it has a dramatic arc, and I think that Kitty Softpaws is a great female character, one of the few wonderful ones out there."
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| | Salma Hayek's "Puss In Boots" Sunshine State Premiere | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Bringing their movie to the sunshine state, Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas were in promotional mode in Ft Lauderdale, Florida on Sunday (October 16).
The good looking co-stars teamed up with Adam Goldstein, Richard Fane and Captain Hernan Zini for the Allure of the Seas premiere of "Puss In Boots" held at Port Everglades.
The family friendly picture tells the story about the events leading up to a sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.
Directed by Chris Miller, "Puss In Boots" also stars Zach Galifianakis and Billy Bob Thornton while set to swing into theaters on Friday, October 28th.
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| | Eva Longoria & Antonio Banderas' Charitable Starlite Night | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Ready for a long night of fundraising, Eva Longoria joined co-host Antonio Banderas (and his wife Melanie Griffith) at the 2011 Starlite Charity Gala in Marbella, Spain on Saturday (August 6).
Kicking things off with cocktails and dinner at Hotel Villa Padierna, the festivities are set to run well into the morning hours with an afterparty capping things off with a 1AM start time at Purobeach Marbella.
As for the cause, the Starlite Gala is "an international platform which benefits several foundations by raising funds for different causes: education, primary needs, cancer, etc. with the aim bringing a better quality life to children, families and communities with no resources."
Tweeting about the charitable plans, Miss Longoria wrote earlier in the day, "In Marbella, Spain getting ready for the Starlite Gala with Antonio Banderas to raise money for children all over the world!"
With collected cash being shuffled to numerous organizations, one of the beneficiaries is Eva Longoria?s Foundation (USA)- which "focuses its efforts on children and the Latin community (immigration problems, social integration, health, education?), supporting the Foundations Parents Against Cancer (children with cncer and their families) and Eva?s Heroes (teens and young adults with intelectual special needs)."
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| | Antonio Banderas & Salma Hayek promote Puss In Boots' origin story at Cannes | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some new photos of Antonio Banderas and Salma ?Carmen Miranda Ain?t Got Nothing On Me? Hayek doing a photo call thing at the Cannes Film Festival today. Both Antonio and Salma are doing voice work for the new Shrek spinoff animated film, Puss in Boots. Can I just say? I?m THRILLED that Puss got a spinoff. He?s hilarious and wonderful, and Antonio?s voice work for the character is lovely. Anyway, Salma and Antonio sat down from some wonderful interviews to promote the film - which is out in November. Here?s a good one:
Getting older in Hollywood and being Hispanic, they are no longer the limitations they once were, say Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. After all, they wonder, when have Hispanic actors ever landed such big feline roles as the leads in the animated adventure ?Puss in Boots??
?When I started out, Hispanic roles were very limited,? Hayek said Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where she and Banderas joined DreamWorks Animation overseers to show off footage of ?Puss in Boots,? a ?Shrek? spinoff coming this November. ?Roles were very limited. There were one or two kinds of characters you used to do. Now we get to play the cats! It?s OK to be a Hispanic, even if you are a cat.?
?Cats were British, normally,? Banderas added at a question-and-answer session alongside Hayek after the footage screened.
?I feel very proud, actually,? Banderas said of his role in expanding the types of parts open to Hispanic performers. ?I never pretended when I first went to Hollywood to be a guy from Oklahoma. I am what I am. And fortunately, the Spanish community in the United States has grown in the last 22 years that I have been there. There has been an explosion in Hollywood, which is a reflection of the society in which we live.?
After the footage showed, Banderas and Hayek headed to a pier along the Mediterranean beach, where they posed for photos on a giant pair of boots bearing the movie?s title. Banderas reprises his voice role from the last three ?Shrek? films, providing the voice of Puss in Boots, the tiny cat with the big heart, big ideas and bigger ego.
A prequel chronicling Puss? adventures before meeting ogre Shrek, the movie has the cat as an outlaw, looking to pull off a big score. But his scheme is interrupted by another calculating cat, Kitty Softpaws (voiced by Hayek), who is in league with Puss? pal-turned-foe Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), as they try to swipe the magic beans of the ?Jack and the Beanstalk? fairy tale from beastly bandits Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris).
Age is another Hollywood barrier Banderas and Hayek feel they have skirted.
Banderas proudly called out his age, 50, while Hayek, 44, said this is the best time in her career, with four movies in the works this year and the work more enjoyable than ever.
?What makes you feel old is when you are not excited about life. You are not excited anymore about what you do, and you cannot do it as well,? Hayek said. ?I do feel my body beginning to ? like, I need glasses now when I read my scripts. I wear them, but I?m happy to wear them and happy that I still get to read my scripts. So it?s not been so bad. They scared me. They told me, ?Forget it. At 30, it?s over for you.? And it has not been the case. It feels great to age in Hollywood.?
[From The Washington Post]
So cute. Wait, have cats traditionally been British? Is that a thing I was unaware of? When I?m voicing my mother?s cats? personalities (you know how you do, don?t judge me), they always talk like snobbish little kids. Especially Charlie, or ?Gaga Kitty? as I now call him. “I was born this way, Mother,” I tell my mom as I hold up Gaga Kitty, who is a chunkster.
But seriously, a Puss in Boots origin story? I?m so there.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Enjoying her time overseas, Salma Hayek was spotted at a photo call for her new movie ?Puss in Boots? today (May 11) in Cannes, France.
The ?From Dusk Til Dawn? actress looked super hot in a busty red dress with a feather shoulder wrap as she posed with her costar Antonio Banderas.
Over the weekend, Salma was out in Boston, Massachusetts with her three-year-old daughter Valentina.
Mom and daughter hit up a Whole Foods grocery store for some supplies before their Mother?s Day celebration.
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| | Antonio Banderas Named U.N. Goodwill Ambassador | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Feed Me Gossip |
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The United Nations Development Program has named Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as a Goodwill Ambassador in the fight against poverty.The U.N. said Wednesday Banderas will work to enact the U.N. Millennium Development Goals that were established to fight hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women.Banderas issued a statement saying he will work with the U.N. Development Program to take action on the goals, with a particular focus on Latin America and Africa.The actor will also work to raise awareness of the $710 million Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund, which supports national and local governments as well as citizen organizations in their efforts to tackle poverty and inequality.
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| | Antonio Banderas is proud of Melanie Griffith's rehab stay | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Antonio Banderas is still trying to correct the record about his wife Melanie Griffith?s recent admission to rehab. When the story was initially reported two weeks ago, sources claimed that Antonio had given Melanie an ultimatum - something like ?If you don?t get clean, I?m divorcing you.? Within a few days, Antonio denied that particular report, telling Extra ?She?s doing fantastic and very little of what is being published is true?I am not going away. I am staying with my family and my wife who I love very much.? Now Antonio has gone on Ellen to talk more about Melanie?s years-long struggles with addiction, and how proud he is of her for facing her demons head-on. In Antonio?s words, ?The whole entire family is supporting her, and I am supporting her, and at this particular time more than ever. I’m very proud of her.? Can Antonio get any better?
Melanie Griffith’s recent admission to a rehab clinic isn’t something husband Antonio Banderas is going to sweep under the rug.
“It’s not a rumor, but let me explain to you,” Banderas, 49, tells Ellen DeGeneres in an interview to air on Wednesday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
“It was said actually in some magazine that I said that I gave an ultimatum to my wife. That I present the matter of divorce because she has been involved in addictions and blah, blah, blah,” says the actor. “Melanie has been addicted for many years and we always came out. We said it out loud. It was okay, we were never embarrassed of the situation but what happened she was clean and sober for six years.”
But six years of clean living was endangered after Griffith, 52, had a skiing accident in Aspen, Co., a year and a half ago. Three operations in her knee required her to use narcotics ? and come face-to-face with her demons again.
“In March, she came to me and said, ‘I’m feeling a little bit weak in my determination for this … so I just thought to go to rehabilitation by myself,’ ” Banderas said. “So the whole entire family is supporting her, and I am supporting her, and at this particular time more than ever. I’m very proud of her.”
More than that, the entire family is actively participating in Griffith’s rehab program.
“We have been following some type of therapy with other families,” he said. “There are a number of invisible heroes working in AA all around the world. I just say to families, ‘Don’t get embarrassed, just confront this problem head-on. And don’t hide from that because there is a beautiful gift at the end of this tunnel, and it is the person that you love back, and that is what I am searching for.’ ”
He added, “I am very proud of my wife.”
[From People]
This is maybe one of the best examples I?ve ever seen of a family treating an addict with love and respect, and like a responsible, cognizant adult. I applaud Melanie for recognizing that she was in danger of sliding in her recovery, and I think the world of Antonio for being so supportive, in such a smart, effective way. This interview should be used for family-sessions of Narcotics Anonymous. Sigh. I love Antonio. I think I?m going to watch Desperado tonight.
Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith and their daughter, Stella, are shown watching an Easter parade in Malanga, Spain on 4/5/09. Credit: ENF/Fame Pictures. watches the Easter processions in Malaga, Spain, with wife Melanie Griffith and their daughter Stella del Carmen. CR: ENF/Fame Pictures
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