Salma Hayek Reveals Hard Work Behind "The Prophet" At Cannes In-Progress Premiere

Salma Hayek took to Cannes to show and promote The Prophet this weekend – her own creative baby, based onKhalil Gibran's philosophical novel. Hayek is producing the film, with Roger Allers co-directing with a long list of creatives, including Tomm Moore, Joan Gratz, Joann Sfar, Bill Plympton, Paul and Gaeton Brizzi, Michal Socha, Nina Paley and Mohammed Saeed Harib, each of whom was in charge of a separate thematic section of the animated flick.

Since the movie is going ahead without a distributor, Hayek took on a number of extra roles on the project – off-screen that is. However, she gave credit, where credit was due and acknowledged her collaborators: "We have nine directors that have worked on this project, really hard, and we have amazing voices in this too, amazing actors," she told The Hollywood Reporter at Restaurant Fouquet's Cannes of the voice cast, featuring Hayek with Liam Neeson, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina and Quvenzhané Wallis.

Watch Salma Hayek's arrival at the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards below.