(Cover) - EN Movies - Salma Hayek advises budding actors that you can’t be successful if you “want to be like” someone else.
The actress has had an incredibly diverse career.
She has taken on serious roles and earned an Oscar nomination for her role in Frida. However, she is also happy to do fun films such as her latest movie Puss in Boots in which she plays Kitty Softpaws.
The curvaceous star says the key to success is not to covet anyone else’s career, and focus on your own path.
“This is not advice anybody ever gave to me but it is advice that I would like to give to someone and that is that not to think about how to get to somewhere else got but to figure out where it is that you have to get,” she told Cover Media. “It’s strange that I didn’t get advice, I gave that advice to myself, I didn’t have someone and I said, ‘I want that life, I want that career, I want to be like her.’”
Salma believes that her Mexican heritage was helpful at this time.
Because there was no one in the industry like her, she had no one to compare herself to.
“There was not anyone I could do that with in my circumstances because there weren’t many Mexican actresses working in movies in the worldwide stage,” she explained. “If I had followed someone else I would never have gotten here. Sometimes when we try to get outside of ourselves to be like someone else you miss out on so many beautiful things that you didn’t know about because you were looking at someone else.”
The 45-year-old blames modern technology for society’s fascination with what other people think.
The star thinks the most important thing is to be happy with who you are.
“I think that’s a very big problem because of the way we are living and the social media and everything. Everybody is obsessed with their own identity seen through other people and everybody thinks very much outside of themselves. So this is my advice, try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.”
Puss in Boots is released in the UK on December 9.
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