Salma Hayek covers the latest issue of Glamour. She’s promoting her role in Magic Mike’s Last Dance, the gyrating swan song of the trilogy. Salma plays a wealthy divorcee, Max, who meets Mike by chance and decides to rope him into helping her stage a male-stripper show on the London stage. In this piece, Salma talks a lot about her marriage to billionaire François-Henri Pinault and she actually makes their marriage sound pretty normal. She even breaks some news here, which is that she had to be dragged down the aisle because she simply never wanted to go through with the wedding. Some highlights:

How she compares to her Magic Mike character, a wealthy divorcee: “I have nothing in common with her, because I married a man who is very supportive, who saw things in me that I never even saw in myself. So I guess the only thing you’re picking up on is that there is money, but I didn’t marry my husband for money. And neither did Maxandra, by the way.”

Doing the scene where Magic Mike stripped for her: “There was an intimacy coordinator, but the clothes were always on. I have to tell you, I was very nervous. I didn’t know what it was going to be like. But Channing was super comfortable: “Oh, don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it.” And I’m like, “No, no. Worry about it!” But what I did underestimate is how physical it was. Channing’s doing most of the work, but girl, I was sore.

Women & existential crises: “The part that I really feel a lot of women will have in common with [my character] is this thing that happens when you come to a certain age. It’s like, “Is this it for me? Have I accomplished all my potential?” I think this is a common conflict. And it happens in your 20s, it happens in your 30s, it happens in your 40s… I remember having an existential crisis as I arrived in my 30s. It’s like, “Oh my God. I’m just not going to accomplish all my plans ever, it’s never going to happen for me. I have nothing, no husband, no children.” And you’re only 30! It’s so painful.

Advice for 30-year-olds: “I would say, “Stop being melodramatic; you’re only 30.” And especially for the women of my generation, it was like, “If I don’t have a child in five minutes, I’m not going to be able to be a mother.” Now the clock is not as strict as we thought. I would say, “Great things are coming your way. Do not settle for the wrong man.” That’s something I really thank myself for. And, “Do not listen to all these expiration dates that they give you.” Because I was also told that, as an actress, you kind of stop working around 30. Imagine? I did really feel it at the time, and it’s unfair. If I had said instead to myself, “Don’t worry, your best professional moments are going to be in your 50s,” I would have been devastated: “Oh my God, do I have to wait that long?” But it’ll happen.

She had to be dragged down the aisle for her wedding: “I actually didn’t believe in marriage. I didn’t want to marry him. He tried for a long time, and I would say yes, and then I wouldn’t show up. And he didn’t go away when I didn’t show up, he had to stick around until we got it done. And I was terrified.

Getting married on Valentine’s Day: “I didn’t even know I was getting married that day. It was like an intervention. I don’t think I ever told this story. No, they just took me to the court. My parents, my brother, they were all ganging up on me. I had a phobia of the marriage thing. The reason why it was a courthouse wedding was because they dragged me there. I was nervous. And then after, there was a lunch at his parents’ house. My mother-in-law, who’s the most tasteful person when it comes to entertaining, had already been doing the lunch. I had no choice.

How she spent her first big paycheck: “After you get your first check, the first thing you do is go, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. How come it’s so little after the taxes?” I had a lot of responsibility, so I’m not a big splurger; I’ve never been. For me, it’s more exciting to make the money than to spend it.

Her friendship with Angelina Jolie: “I’ve always been a girls’ girl, and I’ve always been a good peer. Angelina is one of the very few friends that have actually hired me to work. And Mike White wrote something for me with Miguel Arteta. He’s always been one of the most interesting human beings I’ve come across. I saw that talent in the first go.

[From Glamour]

It’s curious to me that Salma isn’t talking much about her new BFF Angelina in these interviews. She filmed Without Blood last year, with Jolie directing her, and I wonder if they’re both saving some of those stories for the Without Blood promotion. By the look of it, Salma is a very loyal friend. As for the wedding stuff… I think it’s amazing that she had a phobia about weddings and she had to be dragged down the aisle. She and Pinault married in 2009 – can’t believe it’s already been 14 years.

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