Penelope Cruz was "angry" when Salma Hayek didn't confide in her about being sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein

Salma said: “Some people were very angry at me, like Penélope [Cruz], but I was protecting her.

"I kept my eye on their interaction and he never went for her. They [Miramax] were making the best movies. She didn’t have my problem, and if I told her it would have affected her choices of things that would have been good for her career.”

The 54-year-old star revealed her experiences with Weinstein in a 2017 article for the New York Times newspaper and she admitted she thought she had "survived brilliantly" until she had to reflect back.

She told the Sunday Times' Style magazine: “Before I wrote the piece I thought I had survived that brilliantly and it was done with. To the point that I could see him and smile and pretend that everything was OK. I had held my own, I was really strong.

"He didn’t get what he wanted from me and I made the film that was so important, so meaningful to me, to my kind, and when I say my kind I don’t just mean Mexicans, I mean to my kind of woman.

"Frida is a woman who said, I am not a woman who is going to be like anyone else, I am going to fight for my individuality.

"Suddenly the trauma came back. I had thought that it was completely healed, but it was just hiding. It came back, out of nowhere, and it took me a long time to understand how I had to be with it.”