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Friends or foes? Inside Nicole Kidman and Salma Hayek’s friendship as video goes viral

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Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek

Within days of a video showing Nicole Kidman and Salma Hayek engaged in a terse exchange at Paris Fashion Week going viral, any suggestion of feud between the A-list actresses was being hosed down.

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They “love and respect one another” a source said to be close to both women told People, adding that the situation was “silly”.

Clips from a video show Salma Hayek and Nicole Kidman in a terse exchange at Paris Fashion Week
Talk to the hand: Kidman gives Hayek the brush off in clips from the viral video

But it’s hard to unsee what we all can see in the video from the Balenciaga Show at Paris Fashion Week taken on September 30. So here’s what we know about what went down between the pair and their decades-strong friendship.

What happened between Nicole Kidman and Salma Hayek?

Two weeks after Paris Fashion Week was all done and dusted, a video emerged from the Balenciaga show. As one of the brand ambassadors, Kidman was there flying the flag. But it was also her first public appearance since the death of her mother Janelle just a few weeks earlier.

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In the video, Hayek, who happens to be married to François-Henri Pinault, who just happens to be CEO of luxury goods company Kering which owns Balenciaga (among other brands), tries to steer Kidman into a photo opportunity with her and popstar Katy Perry who can be seen standing off to one side.

The dimunitive star puts her hand on the much taller Kidman who deftly spins out of her grasp and looks to emphatically decline to be in another photo. Kidman points her finger and words are exchanged, unfortunately inaudible in the video, before Kidman walks off and Hayek and a somewhat bemused looking Perry pose.

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What did Nicole say to Salma at the Balenciago show?

If only the audio was as clear as the video. According to forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman engaged by Page Six, Hayek is believed to have said to Kidman, “Let’s turn there, OK, here,” They had already taken several photographs together and it is here that Kidman looks to have had enough of smiling for the cameras. “Hey, I’m fine, I’m good. There, it’s enough, it’s OK,” Freeman believes she says.

As Kidman walks off, Hayek appears to call out, “Yes, please, advice,” to which Kidman can be heard replying “You don’t need it.” Hayek replied, “I do.”

Salma Hayek, François-Henri Pinault.,and Nicole Kidman in the front row at Balenciaga show at Paris Fashion Week
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In another video from the show, when they are seated at a table which doubled as the catwalk, Hayek turns away from Kidman to talk to others leaving Kidman looking a little lonely, visibly humphing in her seat before attempting to engage Hayek’s husband Pinault.

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Are Nicole and Salma still friends?

According to sources, Kidman and Hayek are still as friendly as every – although we do wonder just how friendly that is. After all, Kidman did beat Hayek to tkae home the Best Actress Oscar in 2003. Hayek was nominated for her portrayal of celebrated artist Frida Kahlo in Frida, but it was Kidman who took home the gong for her role in The Hours.

Nicole Kidman and Salma Hayek in black at Baleciaga fashion show
Hayek posted this snap of her and Kidman to her Instagram after the Balenciaga show (Credit: Instagram: Salma Hayek)

There are very few photos of them together. In fact there are more of Hayek and Kidman’s ex Tom Cruise.

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