Salma Hayek is sharing an insight into her bond with the children of her longtime friends, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
Speaking to E! News on Thursday, May 15, the Without Blood actress said: “I’m close to the kids.”
After explaining she had been friends with Lively and Reynolds for “a very long time,” Hayek shared details of time with their four children, James, 10, Inez, 8, Betty, 5, and Olin, 2.
“I got a chance to go play with them,” Hayek, 58, told the outlet. “They got to see the tía Salma.”
Hayek also praised the children’s foreign language skills, sharing that the kids “speak some Spanish.”
“Especially a little one,” she added. “They understand Spanish, and they’re lovely.”
Lively and Hayek met on the set of the 2012 crime drama Savages while Reynolds worked with the Frida star in 2017’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard.
Hayek has shared a glimpse of her bond with the family in the past via social media. In 2017, Hayek cooked the couple and their daughter Inez dinner and documented it via an Instagram post.
“When your friends invite you for dinner and you end up doing all the work,” she captioned a photo of herself as she stirred a giant pot and held Inez in her other arm.
Earlier this month, Lively shared a glimpse into her family life in her first TV talk show interview since legal proceedings began with her It Ends With Us colleague Justin Baldoni.
“My little boy is so romantic. When I walk in, he goes, ‘Mama, my love!’ Oh, he’s just a dream. I mean like, they’re chaos. It’s chaos at all times,” the Gossip Girl alum said of Olin during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
“Like, he just announces that I’m the love of his life at all times, which is just the best feeling in the world,” she continued, before joking: “I get dressed every day, like a girl in middle school, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I hope he thinks … I hope he says something.”
For his part, Reynolds has also been vocal about his experience being a dad and spoke to The Hollywood Reporter in December 2024 about raising his children.
“We try to give them as normal a life as possible,” Reynolds told the outlet. “We both grew up very working class, and I remember when they were very young, I used to say or think, like, ‘Oh God, I would never have had a gift like this when I was a kid,’ or, ‘I never would’ve had this luxury of getting takeout,’ or whatever.”
Reynolds added that he has accepted that his kids won’t have the same upbringing as their parents, and acknowledged that they’ve begun showing their own values.
“Then I realized that that’s not really their bag of rocks to carry,” he said. “They’re already very much in touch with gratitude and understanding the world enough to have a strong sense of empathy.”
