Lifestyle FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015

Actor John C Reilly, right, laughs as actress Salma Hayek Vincent Cassel, Salma Hayek and director Matteo Garrone, pose for photographers. speaks during a press conference for the film Tale of Tales, at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, yesterday. — AP photos Salma Hayek eats Cannes’ heart out n a movie filled with strikingly lavish images, those of Salma baroque weirdness at Cannes. throw up,” she said. There were other challenges, said Hayek, Hayek eating the heart of a sea monster in Matteo Garrone’s Hayek plays a queen desperate to have a child. Advised by a including wearing Massimo Cantini Parrini’s sumptuous cos- I“The Tale of Tales” are hard to shake - especially for the actress. warlock to eat the heart of a beast, her king husband (John C. tumes. “He never made me a dress that weighed less than 30 kilos “Disgusting!” Hayek exclaimed yesterday after it showed for critics Reilly) slays a monster, and Hayek subsequently chows down on (66 pounds),” said Hayek. Filming one scene repeatedly in which at the Cannes Film Festival. “The Tale of Tales” is based on the the massive organ. “Our director here wanted ... the inside of the she runs through a labyrinth, Hayek said she got so tired that her influential but little known 17th century Neapolitan fairy tales of heart to be identical to the real heart,” said Hayek. “Forbid I would heavy dress became stuck after Garrone told her to jump. Three Giambattista Basile. It’s a Brothers Grimm-like world of kings and take a bite and a doctor would realize an artery is missing.” men had to dislodge her. “Massimo was screaming, ‘The dress! princesses, ogres and witches, in a series of grotesque fables with It was actually made out of pasta and other things, but it still The dress!’” said Hayek. “It was humiliating.”—AP modern relevance. Critics mostly responded rapturously to its didn’t make for an appetizing meal. “I thought I was going to Amid male landscape of ‘Mad Max,’ Charlize Theron dominates he inhospitable desert landscape of “Mad Max: Fury Stewart and Patricia Arquette have all recently made strong Road” isn’t so different from today’s Hollywood: Low statements about gender inequality in the industry. And on Ton water and overrun by men. But amid the overflow- Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked US state ing testosterone of “Fury Road,” George Miller’s sequel to his and federal agencies to investigate what it claimed is wide- post- apocalyptic franchise, Charlize Theron dramatically spread gender discrimination in Hollywood. “It’s crazy that stands out. While “Mad Max” may star Tom Hardy as the titu- we live in a world, not just in Hollywood, where women get lar road warrior of “Fury Road,” it is effectively Theron’s film. paid less than men for doing the same job,” says Theron. She plays Furiosa, a warrior with a shaved head and pros- “And also just the representation of women in film, it hasn’t thetic arm, attempting to rescue a harem of wives held cap- been that authentic and true. So when something comes tive by a warlord. along where women are represented in a truthful manner, “When people first started talking about this film, this all of a sudden, people really respond to it. And it’s kind of loud whisper went around town that George was looking to like, ‘You guys, this isn’t anything new.’” Indian Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor and actress Anushka Sharma create a female character that can stand next to Max and answer questions during a promotional event for the forthcoming Hindi carry the journey with him,” Theron said in a recent inter- Extensive reshoots film ‘Bombay Velvet’ in Mumbai. — AFP view. “For a female actress, that always sounds intriguing. Channeling some rage into Furiosa came naturally: Look, we hear it all the time and very few filmmakers see “There were emotional things that I could connect to.” Some that through.” “Fury Road,” which received a premiere at the have even described “Fury Road” as a feminist film. “Vagina Bollywood blue blood Ranbir Cannes Film Festival yesterday before opening in theaters Monologues” writer Eve Ensler consulted on the movie, Friday, is an atypical summer action movie - essentially a working with the actresses playing the enslaved wives. takes walk on the wild side two-hour car chase - that’s literally and effectively driven by “Feminism is such a tricky thing to throw around because I a strong woman. don’t think a lot of people know what women mean when anbir Kapoor, the scion of he has enjoyed a string of successes play- Lately, a chorus of actresses has spoken out about what they speak in that articulation,” says Theron. “Really, what it ‘Bollywood’s First Family’, acknowl- ing “coming of age” characters. But now they’ve called inherent sexism in Hollywood and the lack of boils down to is just equal rights.”—AP Redges his latest role as a streetfight- in his mid-30s, Kapoor wanted to take on quality female roles. Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, Kristen er in Mumbai’s underworld marks a dra- more challenging roles and approached matic departure for an acting heartthrob Kashyap when he heard that the director long regarded as being to the manor planned to make a movie out of a well- born. “But that kind of risk gets us all excit- known book called “Mumbai Fables”. ed,” says the 33-year-old ahead of Friday’s release of Hindi film “Bombay Velvet”. Web of lies “Even Spiderman has to take risks.” “Yes, there is pressure, but one should Directed by Anurag Kashyap, “Bombay feel the pressure otherwise the glory Velvet” is one of the most hotly-anticipat- would not be great,” Kapoor told AFP in ed Bollywood movies of the year with a an interview at a hotel in Goa. “I have cast that also includes Anushka Sharma, done all these coming-of-age films and girlfriend of Indian cricket star Virat Kohli. then to see me in this strata of society, in Set in the 1960s, Kapoor plays Johnny this character of Johnny Balraj, a boy con- Balraj, an angry young man who falls in sumed by the desire for a brighter future, love with a jazz singer (Sharma) in who wants to be a big shot in the big bad between illegal boxing bouts that leave world of Bombay but gets caught in this him black and blue. He hides his black web of lies, was what excited me. “I don’t eyes with sunglasses even in the darkest have any song or dance number, the film of nightclubs. Kapoor, the son of is challenging the norm, form and con- Bollywood legends Rishi and Neetu tent.” Kashyap has a reputation for direct- Kapoor and grandson of iconic director ing gritty movies such as the award-win- This photo provided by Warner Bros Pictures shows Tom Hardy, center, as Max Rockatansky and Charlize Raj Kapoor, studied film making in New ning “Black Friday” based on a series of Theron, right, as Imperator Furiosa in Warner Bros Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure York before making his screen debut in bombings in Mumbai in 1993 blamed on film, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. — AP 2007’s “Saawariya” (My Love). Since then an infamous mafia boss.—AFP