Salma Hayek sends a sweet message to her ‘fellow dyslexics’
us.hola.comSalma Hayek is outspoken about her dyslexia. As she readies up for the new year, she shared an encouraging post for her “fellow dyslexics,” pushing them to try their best and to use their disability to their advantage.Salma Hayek and Valentina Paloma attend Kate Hudson’s first concertSalma Hayek shares hilarious post celebrating Penelope Cruz’s SAG nominationA post shared by Salma Hayek Pinault (@salmahayek)The video was shared on Instagram and is made up of various clips of Hayek over the years.
In them, she discusses her dyslexia on various occasions, praising her brain, and revealing that she often has to practice complex movie titles due to her condition. “I have to say that I started practicing saying the name of the movie since we were shooting it because I am dyslexic,” she said in an appearance at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” There’s also a moment from her episode of “Black Mirror,” titled “Joan is Awful,” where she plays an alternate version of herself. “I am a dyslexic, talented actress with questionable English!” she says in the clip.
There’s also another segment where she reveals that her brain works in images and not in words. “And that’s like a good thing if you wanted to be a director,” she said. “For all my fellow dyslexics, especially the ones going back to school.
You’ve got this,” she captioned the post. In an old interview from 2009, Hayek discussed her dyslexia more in depth, revealing that she received her diagnosis as a teenager.
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