Marvel’s Eternals actor Salma Hayek: “It’s a humbling experience to play a superhero in your 50s” 50 : Bollywood News

Hollywood star Salma Hayek, who plays Ajak in Marvel’s Eternals, said that she is someone who “dreams big” and she was surprised to finally get to do Eternals, which fulfills her wish of playing a superhero in a blockbuster movie with a great director like Chloe Zhao.

Marvel’s Eternals actor Salma Hayek: “It’s a humbling experience to play a superhero in your 50s”

On Tuesday, in a virtual press conference in Los Angeles said that it’s a really humbling experience because, she dreams big and if she hadn’t she wouldn’t have gotten here at all. In her big dreams, she wanted to be a superhero, and she wanted to work with the best directors in the world and have big blockbuster movies and also movies that are art, that are made from a very deep place with great directors. Hayek said she doesn’t look like a traditional superhero the audiences are used to watching on screen.

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She added it is very humbling when she is in the middle of 50s, a brilliant director gave her the opportunity to do both; do something that comes from a deep place that is also a big blockbuster. She was wrong. Everything is possible. And it’s a humbling sensation.

The upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie revolves around the Eternals, an alien race living on Earth for over 7,000 years, who team up to protect humanity from their evil counterparts, the Deviants. Salma Hayek, plays Ajak the wise and spiritual leader at the heart of the story, who has the ability to heal and is the "bridge" between the Eternals and their creators called the Celestials.

The gender of Ajak, the character played by Hayek, was swapped from a man to a woman as Zhao said both she and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige wanted a “mother figure” as the leader of the Eternals. The actor said the team even let her do her own stunts in the movie.

The ensemble cast of Eternals also includes Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Kit Harington, Kumail Nanjiani, and Angelina Jolie. The film is slated to be theatrically released in India on November 5 in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

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