The reason Penelope Cruz was angry with Salma Hayek

The Mexican told how the harassment she suffered from Harvey Weinstein caused problems with her friend.

Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz have formed a great friendship for more than a decade, when both began their careers in Hollywood, however, it was not always like that; now it came to light that the film producer Harvey Weinstein managed to make the Spanish angry with the Mexican.

Salma told in an interview with Sunday Time's Style that in 2017 she had to face the comments of various personalities when she spoke of the sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of the filmmaker and the way in which she damaged her friendship with the Spanish actress. .

After speaking publicly about the complaints against Weinstein, Cruz was upset with Salma for not having taken her into account as a support in such a difficult situation and for not trusting her to tell her what was happening to her, but according to the Mexican her The intention was to protect her friend and her career.

"Some people were very angry with me, like Penelope, but I was protecting her. I kept my attention on their interaction and he never went for her. They (Miramax) were making the best movies. She didn't have my problem, and if I had That said, it would have affected his choices of things that would have been good for his career," Hayek explained.

Through an article she wrote in The New York Times in 2017, Salma revealed everything she suffered at the hands of Weinstein during the filming of the movie Frida in 2002. There she wrote about the abuse she suffered from the film producer and how it was his modus operandi and how complicated it was to battle against him.

"The truth is that I was trying to protect myself from the challenge of explaining various things to my loved ones: why, when I casually mentioned that I had been harassed by people like Harvey, I did not give all the details," he explained before listing the traumas that the filmmaker had caused him.

"He was a passionate movie buff, a risk taker, a patron of film talent, a loving father, and a monster. For years, he was my monster. It was my turn to say no. Not opening the door for him at all hours of the night." night, hotel after hotel, where I would show up unexpectedly (...) not to take a shower with him, not to let him see me bathing, not to let him give me a massage (...) and with each refusal came anger Harvey's Machiavellian," Hayek detailed.

The Spanish actress had previously talked about how it was for her to find out that Hayek was among the actresses who had suffered some kind of abuse by the filmmaker and, although she was upset at first, she managed to understand that it was difficult for her friend to talk from this.

"Harvey was a complicated person, we all knew that. We had had a work level, but I was never in the other situations, never. Nor can you blame a friend who has not told you something at a given time" he said in an interview in 2018.

Salma recalled that Penelope understood the situation and her friendship was the same as before because her goal since they met has been to support each other as foreign women in Hollywood.