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09-07-2002, 09:30 PM
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<b>TORONTO (Reuters)</b> - Actress Salma Hayek said on Saturday she misses the days when she had one eyebrow because it would have come in handy for the movie in which she plays the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, notorious for her thick, connecting eyebrow.
Hayek stars as the title character in "Frida," which tells the story of Kahlo and her stormy love affair with renowned muralist Diego Rivera in the 1930s and 1940s.
"My interpretation of her obsession with her eyebrows is that for her it represented freedom," said Hayek, in Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival.
"But if anything, it made me feel regretful because I used to have one eyebrow and I was stupid enough to go through the pain of plucking them. Of course, now I needed them."
Instead, the 36-year-old Mexican actress wore fake eyebrows and shaved her upper lip so that stubble would show and make her look more like the bohemian Kahlo.
Director Julie Taymor, best known for her innovative staging of "The Lion King," said the word "monobrow" usually brought "ugly" to mind but that Kahlo embraced it.
"She was seducing you with her femininity and her masculinity simultaneously," said Taymor.
The film follows Kahlo's life from a crippling bus accident that would inspire her artistic career to her turbulent relationship with Rivera. It also touches on her affairs with communist leader Leon Trotsky and women, her love of tequila, and some of her travels.
Kahlo, once described as "hard as steel and soft as a butterfly's wings," poured her emotions onto canvas -- the anger and hurt from her marriage, miscarriages and physical pain from the bus accident. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=638&u=/nm/20020907/en_nm/canada_filmfest_hayek_dc&ncid=
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<b>TORONTO (Reuters)</b> - Actress Salma Hayek said on Saturday she misses the days when she had one eyebrow because it would have come in handy for the movie in which she plays the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, notorious for her thick, connecting eyebrow.
Hayek stars as the title character in "Frida," which tells the story of Kahlo and her stormy love affair with renowned muralist Diego Rivera in the 1930s and 1940s.
"My interpretation of her obsession with her eyebrows is that for her it represented freedom," said Hayek, in Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival.
"But if anything, it made me feel regretful because I used to have one eyebrow and I was stupid enough to go through the pain of plucking them. Of course, now I needed them."
Instead, the 36-year-old Mexican actress wore fake eyebrows and shaved her upper lip so that stubble would show and make her look more like the bohemian Kahlo.
Director Julie Taymor, best known for her innovative staging of "The Lion King," said the word "monobrow" usually brought "ugly" to mind but that Kahlo embraced it.
"She was seducing you with her femininity and her masculinity simultaneously," said Taymor.
The film follows Kahlo's life from a crippling bus accident that would inspire her artistic career to her turbulent relationship with Rivera. It also touches on her affairs with communist leader Leon Trotsky and women, her love of tequila, and some of her travels.
Kahlo, once described as "hard as steel and soft as a butterfly's wings," poured her emotions onto canvas -- the anger and hurt from her marriage, miscarriages and physical pain from the bus accident. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=638&u=/nm/20020907/en_nm/canada_filmfest_hayek_dc&ncid=
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