Salma Hayek on why she wanted to play a woman facing menopause in an action film

Salma Hayek stars in the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (Jennifer Graylock/PA)

Salma Hayek has said she wanted to put a woman facing menopause at the centre of an action comedy because “the stigma that is maybe the slowest one to change is the discrimination of age”.

The actress, 54, reprises her role as international con artist Sonia Kincaid in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, a sequel to the 2017 film The Hitman’s Bodyguard, in which she had a two-minute cameo.