via LiveLoveBeirut
Hollywood star Salma Hayek arrived to Beirut a couple of days ago and visited yesterday the museum of Lebanese-born poet and philosopher Gebran Khalil Gebran in Bcharreh. Salma is here for her movie “The Prophet” world premiere which will be held at Cinemacity in Beirut Souks.
The premiere will be a private event and few people were invited to attend. If L’Orient Le Jour’s info is accurate, the projection of the movie will be followed by a private dinner for 300 people at La villa Rose at ESA. I was actually eager to watch the movie tonight but I guess we will have to wait till Thursday when it’s officially released. The Prophet is based on Gebran Khalil Gebran’s masterpiece and will feature a voice cast including Salma Hayek as Kamila, Liam Neeson as Mustafa, John Krasinski as Halim, Alfred Molina as Sergeant, Quvenzhané Wallis as Almitra and Frank Langella as Pasha.
PS: Salma Hayek will be with Marcel Ghanem on Tuesday.
What I liked in your article is that you focused on the movie of the great Gebran and on Salma as an actress and not on her origin as Lebanese like of the country is concentrating about which in my opinion will not have any added value to Lebanon nor to Salma Hayeh. Let’s concentrate on the PROPHET guys
Is it just me or are the characters darker than they should be? The film portrays Lebanese people as brown, which isn’t a bad thing, but is quite inaccurate.
Too bad they didn’t let you go to the worldwide premier, you would have littered your blog with a nice article about the movie