#id die for frida

[screechingfromthevoid]

So this is how e 52 is going

[dotcomgirrrl]

i know in my heart of hearts that the only reason the tides have turned on abes fandom perception is because he can be yaoi shipped with topher. fans were too cowardly to ship him with gandhi

[renthony]

I hate US election season. I hate US election season so much. Both options are bad, both political parties are bad, and it's nothing but a giant hostage situation with an end goal of deciding who's going to kill the fewest people at the slowest pace. Yeah, "less death" is the better option, but it's not exactly a good option when a lot of people are still gonna fucking die. "No death" isn't even on the goddamn table, and we're supposed to just...roll with that.

And then you get screamed at if you ever say, "both candidates suck. This sucks. This shouldn't be our only option."

I'd be less frustrated by "you HAVE to VOTE BLUE!" crowd if it was accompanied by people willing to admit that, "yes, Biden is horrible. He is enabling genocide. He is a bad, bad man." The office of the US president is inherently drenched in blood, and I respect you infinitely more if you can bring yourself to be honest and say, "Biden is a monster, and I still think you should vote for him" than if your sales pitch stops at, "if you don't vote Biden, the evil orange man wins!"

[Image description: A screenshot from Futurama, showing Fry wrestling a hammer away from Frida Waterfall, who is holding an illegible protest sign. Text on the screenshot reads, "Stop making your point so ineffectively!!" in all caps. End ID.]

I met you "vote blue no matter who" people halfway. I voted Biden in the last election, I "did my part," I participated in the election circus. So can you meet me halfway and do things other than just vote? Can you join the IWW and start coming to meetings, and keep up the work after the election? Can you please try to break out of the "voting every four years is all we can do" mindset?

Please?

[nosferalto]

my mum wants me to make her a “quick” and “easy” one line drawing she can put on the wall, and she (+ my brother for some reason??) thinks I'm being stubborn when I try to tell her that I can’t do that

not only are one line drawings very difficult and require a lot of practice+studying, but it’s also not within my artistic ability?? I’ve never drawn a smooth line in my LIFE lmao I can’t just whip out a one line drawing on command just like that

I love my mum to bits, but I wish she’d understand that just cus I make some bad anime drawings in my free time, it doesn’t mean I master every single art technique out there,,

[waddles-ex-machina]

stone forest but it’s my fave moments from the comic that didn’t make it into the show

bc I love both versions of stone forest and bc I can 😌

first off, this guy sticks around after hilda gets the elf house off him and just follows her around and it’s really cute!! like, come on, just look at this guy and try to tell me he isn’t friend-shaped. he’s the only guy I trust. and he’s a piece of dirt

the elves cheering for hilda when she takes the house back!! wholesome, 10/10

meme format my beloved. I like to think that when david shows up in hilda’s drawer in the windmill episode it’s a reference to this panel :)

(putting the rest under a cut so none of my followers get tempted to vibecheck me)

okay, idk what’s going on with johanna’s whole vibe here but I love it. I bet she looks that way bc she’s wondering if hilda’s seen her gf

I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, these two share a braincell. also hilda immediately takes this opportunity to sneak out to see frida?? (id include a pic but tumblr picture limit :(( ) anyway luke said frilda rights, thank u luke

even if she gets grounded immediately after this :(

the exaggerated ‘being sneaky(TM)’ poses…the comedic timing of the light coming on…raven looking more scared of johanna than he has any right to be…this scene has everything

okay so listen. listen. this one isn’t so much a “comics thing I wish was in the show” moment as its a thing that IS in the show and I have to mention it bc they made it so much BETTER. LOOK AT HOW FAR MY GIRL HAS COME

comics johanna: idk just stay behind me and maybe we won’t die

season 2 johanna: you wanna fuckin GO?

I don’t know which crew member looked at this scene and decided that johanna actually does not fuck around but I owe them my life

moving on

ok so for anyone who doesn’t know, everything in the actual ‘stone forest’ part of the comic is more or less the same but with one big difference - in the comics, alfur doesn’t come with hilda to trolberg, and david and frida are more minor characters who don’t even know hilda’s gone missing when all this goes down

so then who, you might ask, comes to rescue hilda and johanna from the mountain?? who steps up to this perilous task???

my

BOY

THIS GUY. SHOWS UP AND HELPS THEM GET OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN. y’all can laugh at me stanning this dude but he is the HERO of stone forest and I can’t believe he got robbed of his spotlight like this #straysoddeservedbetter2K20

oh and tontu and raven save johanna from the rocks in case you’re wondering. thank u tontu and raven, my wife lives to see another day

literally all raven does in this comic is help hilda fuck things up and save her mum’s life and I have no choice but to stan

this is rapidly turning into a stray sod appreciation post but like. this guy follows them all the way to the mountain, rescues them from a bunch of trolls and johanna’s first instinct is to put a mug on him. absolute icon. johanna just gives zero fucks in the comic and I’m so here for it. sometimes a family is a mum, her chaotic daughter, the house spirit and a piece of dirt 😌 (he doesn’t stick around much for mountain king and he’s hardly in the show at all but that’s okay bc he’s living in my heart rent free 🥺)

the ending is more or less the same and I ran out of images anyway so that’s it!! if u read this far down thanks for putting up with my stray sod appreciation stone forest comic post, I hope y’all enjoyed seeing me ramble abt the comics?? somehow?? in conclusion I love stone forest, thank u for your time

[leonhardt-simp]

you dont have many vampire asks :( so i thought id ask a question revolving around the vampires! how did each of the vampires get turned? and how did they die? also! what is their favorite snacks and how do they react to garlic bread

Vampires can’t eat anything otherwise their bodies will throw it up forcefully. They try their best to avoid food all together because of this as the food often comes up as a black tar-ish substance.

Historia’s blood is special, her family lineage had past vampires. So when Historia had been caught in the middle of a farm fire that had been set alight to kill her. She was trapped in one of the barns and passed out because of lack of oxygen. her blood killed her and then reanimated her into a vampire. It was almost like a back-up defense. She was considered a “born” vampire. Same goes for her father. Historia died at the age of 18.

Yelena was a carriage driver, often escorting royalty and other rich folk around. Her masculine appearance made it very easy to maintain the job. She was a target by a hunger attack, a vampire had called for the carriage with a wave of their hand pretending to be a patron. She helped. However, at the destination that’s when they reached out of the front window to pull Yelena inside and to feast. She was able to protect herself with a knife she had on her but was only able to stumble out of the carriage before falling onto the street, holding her neck. Historia found her and was willing to turn her. So she did. Yelena died at the age of 24.

Mikasa comes from a family of strong vampire hunters! These vampire hunters had incredible instincts and strength, often having high stamina, and were quite quick. This bloodline was made as a counter to vampires! So, they were often experimented on. This family and Vampires were often kept a secret as the Mayors of towns didn’t want the people to freak out. Her family took her on a mission and all when for worst when her father had been tragically killed in a fight against multiple vampires. Mikasa was left to fend but due to this being her first mission, she was quickly overwhelmed. Her instincts did as much as they could and prolonged her final hours greatly. She killed 6 vampires out of the 10 before she suffered a great injury to her chest due to a stake being thrown at her. Just minutes before her death, the royal family had arrived to stop the commotion. Frida decided to turn Mikasa into a vampire out of pity because she was so young. Mikasa died at the age of 19. Mikasa is the strongest vampire at the moment, with Historia coming close second.

Hitch is the youngest out of everyone. Her death was unfortunate as she was a victim of an armed robbery and was shot 3 times. She was fighting for her life until she realized how bad her injuries were, accepting of her death as she was in an ambulance. She was turned by a paramedic who believed she had a lot to live for. Hitch died at the age of 21. Hitch was very vengeful when her death was stolen from her, she doesn’t like the idea of living forever.

[wooteena]

hello hello!! too nervous 2 reveal identity so im tellin u on anon, but im literally unbelievably obsessed with the bb au,,, if u were to write oneshots based off of the other characters in the same universe id die for u. not that i wouldnt already

if i have enough energy to focus on more than one thing at once then i have plans (half assed ideas) for writing stuff about wilbur, sally and frida/friends relationship :)

[juliliest]

Unerschrocken - 15 Porträts außergewöhnlicher Frauen

Unerschrocken - 15 Porträts außergewöhnlicher Frauen @reproduktcomics @gratiscomictag #gratiscomictag

Am 12. Mai ist Gratis Comic Tag!

Manchmal ist es ja auch ganz schön, wie schnell die Zeit vergeht – zum Beispiel, wenn wieder ein Jahr rum ist und der nächste Gratis-Comic-Tag vor der Tür steht!

Für alle Fans von Frida und  Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, die noch mehr über außergewöhnliche und unerschrockene Frauen lesen möchten, habe ich zu diesem Anlass einen besonderen Tipp: Unerschrocken

[humancork]

LIST OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BISEXUAL

-Billy Joe Armstrong more like yeessss

-David fucking Bowie

-Snookie? like thank you?

-Angelina Jolie wow cutie

-Frenchie Davis, a bisexual POC who sings like a goddess im gay 

-Lady Gaga my queen

-Kesha?? like praying for u to come to my city damn

-Margret Cho, an Asian bi who id die for 

-Brenda Fassie, another POC who fucking sang amazingly like wowow

-Marilyn Monroe, my mom and bi icon??

-Frida Kahlo, an artist that could draw me all day long 

-Rebecca Walker, a beautiful POC who writes amazing stories and is bi as hell

-Billy Holiday a jazz singer who stole hearts from both sexes 

-James Dean, yeah you got that right straight gals, ur swooning boy liked boys too fuck you

-FREDDIE MERCURY NEED I SAY MORE

-Dolores del Rio was an Hispanic actress who loved everyone and i love her

-Herman Melville didn’t write Moby Dick for nothin if you know what i mean 

-Sapphire, a famous writer and poet, likes girls and boys yes

-Dorthy Thomson, a famous journalist and loves women and men 

FEEL FREE TO ADD MORE WE ARE ALL HERE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE PEOPLE 

[elkedagvakantie]

Corona-travel-update 47: Hotels gaan langzaam weer open

Expositie Frida Kahlo verplaatst | a&o hostels komt met project ‘Emergency Beds’ | Tips voor je mei-vakantie | Plan voor toeristische corridors in Europa | Vakantiebutler nodig? |

Genieten van een verblijf in een hotel. Foto: Elkedgvakantie

Hier onder de meest interessante reis-gerelateerde links en persberichten over het effect van het coronavirus die we de afgelopen 24 uur hebben gevonden.

Drents Museum verplaatst grote Frida Kahlo-tentoonstelling naar najaar 2021

Vanwege het coronavirus heeft het Drents Museum in Assen besloten de grote kunsttentoonstelling Viv…

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Das Bild am Sonntag: Peter Wattendorff - Die Revanche der Frida Kahlo

Das Bild am Sonntag: Peter Wattendorff – Die Revanche der Frida Kahlo

Peter Wattendorff

Nicht schon wieder Frida! …. stimmt, wenn es nicht die Frida wäre, die sich gegen den Machismo im allgemeinen und Vorurteilen gegenüber Mexiko im besonderen, stark gemacht, hat. Leider nicht immer zu Lebzeiten, aber sicher posthum, ist sie zur Ikone der Selbstbestimmung der Frau und zur Repräsentantin eines modernen demokratischen Mexiko avanciert.   Vier Professionen…

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[batgeschaftsideen-blog]

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[my-life-fm]

Frida Levy

»Frida Levy wurde am 5. September 1885 als Frida (Frieda) Platz in Gladbach geboren.

Sie wohnte zusammen mit ihrem Mann Julius Levy in Gladbach, Sandgasse 35 (heute: Sandgasse 5, Neuwied, Stadtteil Gladbach).

Frida Levy musste am 30. März 1942 ihr Haus in Gladbach mit nur einigen wenigen Habseligkeiten verlassen und sich am Neuwieder Bahnhof zum Transport nach Koblenz einfinden . Später wurde sie ab Trier über Köln am 27. Juli 1942 in des Ghetto Theresienstadt und am 29. Januar 1943 in das Vernichtungslager Auschwitz deportiert und dort am gleichen Tag ermordet.

Frau Anneliese Stockhausen, geb. Lahr, erzählt: „Unsere nächsten Nachbarn waren Levys. Wir Kinder sagten nur Onkel Levy und Tante Frida. In gewissen Zeiten gab es immer Matzen für uns Kinder. Bekamen wir ein Kalb, hat Herr Levy immer geholfen. Auch wenn der Vater im Feld war, hat Herr Levy den Stall überwacht. Sollten Hühner geschlachtet werden, hat Herr Levy das gemacht. In Köln hatten Levys Verwandte, die oft zu Besuch kamen, die Jett mit der Tochter Ruth.

1937 zu meiner Kommunion schenkten Levys, die natürlich zur Feier eingeladen waren, mir ein Silberkettchen mit Kreuz; das habe ich heute noch, und seit der Kristallnacht ist es mir heilig. Das gebe ich nicht her; das nehm ich mit ins Grab.

Die Kristallnacht war für uns Kinder – auch für mich – ich war ja schon 11 Jahre alt – ganz, ganz schlimm. Zu der Zeit wohnte schon Familie Platz, Max und Rosa (ich glaube, die war aus Bacharach) bei Levys. Wir hatten Turnen, und ich kam die Kirchstraße und Sandgasse herunter aus der Schule. In der Kirchstraße kam uns ein Auto entgegen. Vorne saßen zwei Mann in Uniform, und hinten saßen Max  und Julius. Sie kamen nach 2 oder 4 Tagen (genau weiß ich das nicht) wieder heim.

In der Sandgasse war es dann zu schrecklich für ein Kind. Alles lag auf der Straße – meist kaputt. Rote-Rüben-Brühe lief die Straße hinab; das sah aus wie Blut. Das sehe ich heute noch vor mir. Im Fenster – das war auch kaputt – hing an einem Besenstiel eine (von den Nazis?) beschmutzte Unterhose von Tante Frida. Das war so beschämend.

Etwas später waren alle vier Personen mal eine kurze Zeit in Sayn in der Anstalt, kamen aber (nach wie langer Zeit, weiß ich nicht) wieder zurück (ich glaube wegen Platzmangel). Sie hatten überhaupt nichts mehr, kamen auch nicht mehr zu uns rüber, weil es ihnen verboten war.

Die Mutter ließ uns Mädchen immer einiges hinter ihr Hoftürchen legen: eine Flasche Milch, ein paar Eier, etwas Gemüse und Kartoffeln. Dann kam einmal ein Mann, der sagte zu den Eltern: Gebt acht! Ihr werdet beobachtet! Sonst wird bei Euch auch entrümpelt. Auch als meine Eltern nach der Kristallnacht die vielen Scherben wegkehrten, wurden sie gewarnt und weggeschickt: Die Scheiße sollen die selber wegräumen.

Irgendwann 1942 waren alle vier Juden dann zusammen weg, und man hat nie mehr etwas von ihnen gehört."

Die Eltern:

Fridas Eltern, waren Dora Platz, geborene Salomon, geboren am 6. März 1848 in Weis, und Isaac Platz, geboren am 20. Juni 1849 in Dirmerzheim. Sie heirateten am 29. Dezember 1874.

Dora und Isaac Platz wohnten mit ihren Kindern Salomon, Emma, Sybille, Julius, Moses, Regina, Frida, Alex, Henriette und Johanna in Gladbach in der Sandgasse 35 (heute: Sandgasse 5, Neuwied, Stadtteil Gladbach) und später in der Kirchstraße 35 (heute: An der Marienkirche 18, Neuwied, Stadtteil Gladbach).

Sie erlebten das damals seltene Fest der Goldenen Hochzeit. Die Feier fand unter großer Anteilnahme der übrigen Dorfbewohner im Saale Kiefer statt. Der Gesangverein brachte ihnen ein Ständchen.

Die Geschwister:

Bruder Salomon Platz wurde vom 30. Juni 1941 bis zum 12. Juli 1941 zunächst im Konzentrationslager Dachau inhaftiert und am 12. Juli 1941 von dort in das Konzentrationslager Buchenwald überführt. Dort wurde er am 30. Dezember 1941 ermordet.

Schwester Emma, geboren am 19. Dezember 1875 in Gladbach heiratete am 26. April 1906 den Händler und Schneider Heinrich Meyer, geboren am 28. Mai 1877 in Neuwied. Sie hatten zwei Söhne – Ernst, geboren am 17.03.1907 und Erich, geboren am 22.10.1919. Über das Schicksal von Emma und ihren Söhnen ist nichts bekannt. Heinrich Meyer verstarb am 24.12.1933.

Schwester Sybille und ihr Ehemann Benny Salomon wurden beide am 15.6.1942 von der Heil- und Pflegeanstalt (Jakobysche Anstalt) Bendorf-Sayn aus über Koblenz nach Izbica deportiert und dort ermordet.

Bruder Julius, geboren am 15. März 1880 in Gladbach, Viehändler, war verheiratet mit Juliane, genannt Jula, geborene Hirsch, geboren am 17. Dezember 1878 in Bentheim/Sieg. Er war Vorbeter in der Synagoge in Niederbieber, die er jeden Samstag (Sabbat) festlich gekleidet besuchte. Julius und Jula hatten zwei Söhne, Max, Jahrgang 1908, und Leo, Jahrgang 1913. Diese Familie wohnte in der Rommersdorfer Straße 3. Leo unterhielt im elterlichen Haus ein gut florierendes Geschäft. Er verkaufte und reparierte Fahrräder des Fabrikats Goldrad und Radios des Fabrikats Saba. Als einzige Familie ihrer Sippe übersiedelte sie zum nahezu letztmöglichen Termin [1937] nach Bogota in Kolumbien. Sohn Max heiratete dort und kehrte nach dem Krieg mit Frau, Tochter und Sohn Alexo nach Gladbach zurück. Nach seinem Tod wurde er auf dem jüdischen Friedhof in Koblenz bestattet. Sohn Leo heiratete auch, wurde Geschäftsmann und Vater von fünf Kindern. (lt. Alfred Schwan)

Bruder Moses mit Ehefrau Johanna, geborene Seligmann, dessen Söhne Leo und Kurt sowie die Enkeltochter Reha wurden Opfer der Shoa.

Für Leo, dessen Ehefrau Rosa, geborene Roer, und Reha Platz sind in Köln, Altstadt Nord in der Eigelsteinstraße Stolpersteine verlegt.

Schwester Regina, geboren am 12. Juni 1883 in Gladbach, verstarb am 20. Januar 1932 in Gladbach und ist wie ihre Schwester Johanna, geboren am 3. Juni 1892 und verstorben am 26. Oktober 1892 in Gladbach, auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof in Niederbieber beigesetzt.

Bruder Alex mit Ehefrau Rosa, geborene Keller, mussten sich am 30. März 1942 am Neuwieder Bahnhof einfinden. Bruder Alex wurde 1942 an einen unbekannten Ort deportiert und gilt seitdem als verschollen.

Schwester Henriette, geboren am 26. November 1889 in Gladbach, wohnte mit Ehemann Hermann Platz, geboren am 5. Oktober 1874 in Lechenich und ihrer Tochter Ruth Berta, geboren in Köln am 29. August 1920, in Köln. Sie wurden am 30. Oktober ab Köln nach Lodz / Litzmannstadt deportiert.«

»[...] Schuld die auch wir hätten begehen können [...]«

Quelle, weitere Bilder & weiterführende Links => http://stolpersteine-neuwied.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122:levy-frida-2&catid=8&Itemid=119 [abgerufen am 2017_08_02_06_2_16]

Vergessen ist der Ausgangspunkt von Wiederholung.

Unless the world learns the lesson these cruel fates teach, night will fall.

Holocaust  |  Mehr als ein Trostpflaster  |  Über die Stolpersteine ging man irgendwann hinweg. Dann kam ein privates Forscherteam mit einem aufrüttelnden Buch. http://www.zeit.de/2017/05/stolpersteine-forschung-nationalsozialismus-opfer-oswald-pander/komplettansicht

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Salma Hayek: Trump couldn’t build a wall without illegal Mexicans’

Her new film, Beatriz at Dinner, already has Oscar buzz. But on top of the acting, Salma Hayek is also saving animals, running charities and beating the hell out of a Trump piata. Johnny Davis meets Hollywoods busiest firebrand

It was after a neighbour shot her dog that Salma Hayek realised Donald Trump would become president.

I thought it was a crazy thing, that it would never happen but then something really tragic happened to me, she explains. I have a ranch in America and a neighbour of mine killed my dog. Hayek, who owns around 50 animals, including 20 chickens, five parrots, four alpacas, two fish, some cats and a hamster, says that Mozart, the tragic German Shepherd in question, had never attacked anyone. And the authorities in dealing with the neighbour, and what he did How is that legal? [Police have said the neighbour shot her dog after he found it fighting with his dogs in his garage.] Just to understand what was the normality of things. I realised in this moment, Oh my God: hes going to win.

Hayek, a Mexican immigrant to America who identifies as half-Spanish and half- Lebanese, lives in London and is married to a Frenchman who happens to be Franois-Henri Pinault, billionaire CEO of the company that owns Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Gucci is perhaps uniquely placed to have firm views on Trump, Brexit and immigration, and well get to them.

Hayek is primarily here this morning to talk about her new movie, The Hitmans Bodyguard. We are at a press junket for the film. Elsewhere on the first floor of this smart London hotel are Samuel L Jackson, Ryan Reynolds and Gary Oldman, answering questions. Junkets can be dispiriting, and rapport can be in short supply. That is, unless youre Salma Hayek, whose personality could light up a funeral. She arrives in a riot of black and red polka dots, tottering shoes and glossy hair, 5ft 2in and somehow 50 years old, although agelessly beautiful. She plonks herself into an armchair, hoists her legs up, and proceeds to tug the small table between us towards her. Do you mind? Theyre bringing me food. I like my food.

Hasnt she had breakfast?

I did but Im still hungry, she grins.

A round of avocado on toast is spirited into the room, accompanied by a mystery shake in a plastic container. (A second round soon follows.) Famous since she was a soap star in Mexico in her 20s and with 40-plus Hollywood films to her name, Hayek has done literally thousands of interviews. What does she make of the publicity circuit?

Im good! she says. I just pretend Im having a conversation with a new friend.

Other half: Hayek and her billionaire husband Franois-Henri Pinault. Photograph: Tony Barson Archive/WireImage

Indeed, Hayek proves impossible not to like. She may be the perfect chat-show guest: various presenters have hooted along as shes shown off pictures of her Donald Trump piata, discussed her experience as a late-developing teen immersing herself in holy water and praying to Jesus for breasts, or confessing she accused Monsieur Pinault of having an affair after discovering text messages from Elena, only to discover Elena was a language-teaching app.

In fact, we have Pinault to thank for Hayeks turn in The Hitmans Bodyguard. The comedy-action caper is basically a mismatched buddy movie for Jackson and Reynolds, hitman and bodyguard respectively. Hayek is only in a few scenes, but as Jacksons imprisoned criminal wife she matches him profanity for profanity.

I think Salma steals the whole movie, says director Patrick Hughes. I challenge anyone not to fall in love with her because (a) shes a polymath and (b) she kicks ass.

I have to tell you: action is not my favouritest [sic] genre of films, Hayek says. But I married a man who really likes them. So I became an expert. So I see them all!

The image of fashions most powerful CEO spending his downtime like this is intriguing. What is his favourite action movie?

Oh, its like Sophies choice for him, I think.

What about Die Hard, I suggest.

Oh, he loves Die Hard. But we love Bourne. She claps her hands. Sometimes he doesnt even like [a film], he says: Oh my God, that was so bad! But he still has to watch the whole thing.

Its a man thing, I say.

Yes! My brother likes that one, my father likes that one and because of that, when we were doing [The Hitmans Bodyguard] I was able to say it was going to work, because it had a lot of the stuff that the good ones have.

Mexican heroine: Hayek playing Frida Kahlo in Frida with Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera.

Similarly, do actors always know when theyre making a turkey?

Oh yeah! Hayek says, crunching through her toast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. And unfortunately Ive never been wrong!

Her CV is mixed. The first Mexican actress to break into Hollywood since Dolores del Ro in the pre-sound 20s, shes played a lesbian taco in the kids film Sausage Party and so-so roles in films such as Spy Kids 3D and Wild, Wild West. But she also earned an Oscar nomination for Frida, her 2002 portrait of Frida Kahlo, and The Hollywood Reporter has just tipped her for 2018s awards season for Beatriz At Dinner, in which she plays an immigrant who clashes with a self-made billionaire.

At first, she says, she hated being famous. This was terrifying because in Mexico when you do a soap, at this point she leaps out of her chair and heads for the door Dont worry, Im not escaping Hello? Her security guard appears with a pack of American Spirit cigarettes. My soap was seen by 60% of the country, so its every day, in their house. Do you mind? Do you want one? she says, offering the smokes. So you become very familiar, like youre their cousin or something. Ive never been so famous since. I kind of hated it.

Taking aim: Hayek in The Hitmans Bodyguard. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

If she hated the attention so much, I wonder why she headed for Hollywood. But Hayek is battling with the curtains while she attempts to heave open a sash window so that she can smoke, unlit fag in her mouth. Not relishing the idea of Hayek tumbling on to the streets below, it seems only polite to help. For a few seconds she holds back the curtains, while I struggle to wrench the window.

Oh my God, that was so easy, she says. I really did want to be an actress, not just be famous. Its a different thing. Because I was famous on a soap! That doesnt make you a great actress. So I went to America to start all over again.

This was the 90s. She played extras and enrolled in the Stella Adler Academy Of Acting in LA, alma mater to Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. And this is how old I am, she [Adler] was still alive! She was 90 and she was still teaching and flirting with the young boys. She was a tough cookie but she was brilliant.

Hayek could barely speak the language – My English sucked worse, there werent any parts. Mexican women played maids or gangsters wives. And thats if you got lucky.

Hayek threatened legal action against one director.

I was screen-testing for the lead in a film and they said that it was not written Latin, but they wouldnt mind changing it. I learned the script but when they sent me the pages [for the audition] there was none of the things I had learned, it was another role. So my agent called them and they said, Are you crazy? Shes Mexican. We can change [the race of] the bimbo, but not the lead.

Fashionista: at Stella McCartney, spring/summer 2016, Paris fashion week. Photograph: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images

She got her agent to call back. Would they please just give her five minutes to audition for the part shed learned?

And they said, Absolutely under no circumstances. So I said, OK, you tell them that they either see me, or Im going to sue them. And they said, Theres no point in her coming, even if she had been the best audition she would have never gotten the part but now we hate her. Does she want to come knowing that we detest her? They kept her waiting for five hours. They wondered why would she do this to herself.

Ive never said this to anyone, the name of the director, but it was Ivan Reitman. And I said, Well, I thought that the director that could see Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as twins [1988s Twins], and Arnold Schwarzenegger giving birth to a child [1994s Junior] maybe could see a Mexican as a fashion editor. I thought I owed it to the new generation of Mexicans. That if I got this right, maybe something will shift.

Years later, she bumped into Reitman and he apologised. We had such a lovely conversation, he was so elegant, Hayek says. He said, I was wrong.

All of this pales next to the hill she climbed for Frida.

I was obsessed, Hayek says. I was endeavouring to do a film about an artist in a time when all the films about artists had failed. Already [the studios] were going, Oh no. Then Id say, Its a period piece about Mexicans! And theyre communists! Its a love story between an overweight man and a woman that limps and has a moustache!

Committed: Hayek campaigning for womens empowerment with Guccis Frida Giannini and Beyonc. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty

One studio did eventually take it on, Edward Norton (her partner at the time) rewrote the script for free and Hayek called in favours from co-stars including Ashley Judd, then one of Hollywoods most bankable faces. It opened in two cinemas. Its success, I suggest, must have been all the sweeter.

Yes, she says. Because [the studio] dismissed it. I didnt even have a poster!

It may not surprise you to learn that Hayek is a committed activist: her list of charitable endeavours is too long to go into here, but it includes her own foundation helping women and children in Mexico, and the feminist charity Chime For Change, founded with Beyonc. Its so massive I dont even know what to tell you. I dont just do awareness, I actually do strategy. Im on the board. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of time.

Other projects receiving the full force of the Hayek commitment include her range of nutritional juices, and a beauty line which she created herself. She also has her own production company, which helped turn the TV show Ugly Betty based on a Colombian telenovela into a worldwide hit. I ask where this drive comes from.

Its been there since Ive been a child. A sense of justice and responsibility for the human race. How can we be better? Because a lot of people dont think that way. They think: How can I pay less tax? And so when I see things that make me think we are degrading and degenerating mentally it makes me want to do something.

She has been hugely successful. Shes married to one of the worlds richest men. (Their daughter, Valentina, attends school in London.) She could just put her feet up. Of course, its a cheap question we already know the answer.

Why would anybody want to sit around and do nothing?

Hayek says that she made it clear she would always remain financially independent from her husband, whose net worth is around $17.3bn. Which may explain money-job films like Sausage Party.

Mirror mirror: Hayek guest stars in Ugly Betty with America Ferrera. Photograph: Danny Feld/ABC

At the time I met him, I had already decided I didnt want one of those [ie a husband], she says. I had set myself up for a completely different life. I was ready to live on my ranch that is a sanctuary for abused animals. I would come to LA and work a little bit. I was not planning on spending. I had no interest in jewellery or clothes or cars. I had everything I wanted. Maybe I had a guy here or there. I also thought I couldnt have children. Then he [Pinault] came along, swept me off my feet, changed my entire universe and knocked me up.

Can she remember what they first liked about one another?

Yes. I asked him, if he had not been doing what he was doing, what would have been his dream? And he said an astronaut and that was my dream! Then we started talking about different theories of physics, which is my secret passion. And soccer! Im a huge soccer fan [she supports Arsenal]. Just random things that nobody knows I like. It was just magical.

As a global citizen at a time when the world seems to be closing in on itself, is Hayek optimistic for the future?

Very optimistic. I have to look for the positive about everything.

Hayek campaigned for Clinton. Hows it going to end for Trump?

I can promise you hes not going to build the wall. You cannot build it without the Mexicans that are illegally in the country. That is what makes the economy so strong because they are paid less than half, with no benefit. Its just not going to happen!

Hayek is banging her fist on the table.

His days are numbered! Even if he becomes a dictator and rewrites the constitution and now the presidents can stay 12 years! Still his days are numbered!

Salma Hayek: activist, actor, producer, juicer, businesswoman, friend to the animals and all-round proper laugh. You wouldnt mess.

The Hitmans Bodyguard is in cinemas on 17 August

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