Salma Hayek felt like the mom on the set of 'Eternals'

At 55, Salma Hayek says she came to feel like the mother of some castmates in “Eternals,” the latest Marvel superhero movie co-starring Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani and others

NEW YORK -- Salma Hayek laughs when asked if she ever felt like the mom of the group on the set of “Eternals.”

“Yes, because everyone also came to tell me about their problems ... and I liked it a lot,” says the Mexican actor, who at 55 plays the matriarch of the superheroes in the new Marvel movie.

And as a sample, she said she had “thousands” of anecdotes.

“For example, Barry (Keoghan), who plays the role of Druig, has dyslexia like me and came to my trailer every day: ‘Help me, help me with the lines, I’m ashamed that others hear how I read.’ And there I would sit with him and we would laugh a lot. It was like doing homework with my kid,” Hayek said in Spanish during a recent video interview from London. “He is much younger than me, and he is another actor with dyslexia.”