“When he would call me up and scream, ‘Why do you have a and mustache? I didn’t hire you to look ugly!’ I was like, ‘But didn’t you ever look at a picture of Frida Kahlo?’ If a man was playing Cyrano de Bergerac, he wouldn’t say, ‘What’s with the nose?’” Last year during an interview with The Guardian, she recalled Weinstein’s wrath about her physical appearance on set. In a 2017 op-ed published by the New York Times titled “Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too,” Hayek described the abuse she experienced at the hands of the producer. “She wasn’t playing this gorgeous Latina, this hot tamale. “What he was talking about, of course, was she wasn’t playing ‘sexy,’” Molina said. Molina called Weinstein’s complaint “preposterous” and thought to himself, “Well, that’s the whole f-ing point, isn’t it?” He then said he realized why Weinstein was so upset. And what do I see onscreen? Nothing but Frida, Frida, Frida!’” She’s one of the best actors in the world. What the f–k’s going on? I’ve hired the best actors. Molina said at one point, Weinstein was upset because Hayek’s portrayal was apparently too much like the artist she was hired to play. On set during production, however, Molina said that Weinstein was not happy with Hayek’s performance. Salma Hayek earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Kahlo. In Frida, Molina, who is English, played Diego Rivera, the husband of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. During a recent interview with The Independent, actor Alfred Molina ( Spider-Man: No Way Home ) recalled some disturbing comments he heard made by disgraced producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein on the set of the 2002 biopic Frida.
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