Beirutis, get ready to welcome the sexy Mexican-Lebanese actress Salma Hayek in her ancestral homeland on April 27.
The Hollywood beauty is jetting off to Lebanon for the premiere of her new animated film adaption of Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran’s classic book “The Prophet.”
Hayek voices Kamila, the mother of Almitra, in the film, with an A-list cast including Liam Neeson as Mustafa, John Krasinski as Halim, Alfred Molina as Sergeant, Quvenzhané Wallis as Almitra and Frank Langella as Pasha.
Regional talent involved with the production includes Emirati animator Mohammed Saeed Harib (“Freej”) and Iranian-French author and director Marjane Satrapi (“Persepolis”). Meanwhile, the production was co-financed by The Doha Film Institute with Participant Media, MyGroup Lebanon, FFA Private Bank, JRW Entertainment and Code Red Productions, reported Step Feed.
The 48-year-old actress told The Hollywood Reporter that “being of Lebanese descent, I’m particularly proud to be part of a project that will present this masterpiece to new generations, in a way never seen before.”
"The Prophet" previously screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Ajyal Film Festival.
In March, it was announced that it will be released in the US on August 27 in Los Angeles and New York.
Gibran is one of the most prominent authors in the Arab world. He was born in the Lebanese mountain village of Bcharreh in 1884 and published “The Prophet,” his best selling work, in 1923. The book sold over 100 million copies worldwide and was translated into more than 40 languages. After his death in 1931, Gibran was buried in his native village and a museum was erected in his honor.
