Just days before her new movie Bliss debuts on Amazon Prime, Salma Hayek has set up a bizarre new comedy series centering on a woman’s breasts.
The 54-year-old actress has signed on to develop an adaptation of Leslie Lehr’s book A Boob’ Life as a TV series for HBO Max, according to Deadline.
Hayek will produce through her Ventanarosa Productions company, which has a first-look deal with HBO Max.
New show: Just days before her new movie Bliss debuts on Amazon Prime, Salma Hayek has set up a bizarre new comedy series centering on a woman’s breasts
New show: The 54-year-old actress has signed on to develop an adaptation of Leslie Lehr’s book A Boob’ Life as a TV series for HBO Max, according to Deadline
The series will be a half-hour comedy following a 40-year-old woman named Leslie, whose life is upended when her breasts start talking to her.
She’s forced to look at herself in a completely new light, with the show examining the, ‘reality of life in a female body in a culture that is obsessed with breasts.’
The book A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me—and You will be published by Pegasus Books on March 2.
Talking chest: The series will be a half-hour comedy following a 40-year-old woman named Leslie, whose life is upended when her breasts start talking to her
Cynthia Mort has come aboard to write the pilot, and she will also serve as showrunner and executive producer.
Hayek will executive produce alongside her Ventanarosa partners Jose Tamez and Siobhan Flynn, with Lehr also serving as an executive producer.
Also executive producing are Melissa Oman and Julie R. Snyder under their Wheeler Girl Productions banner.
Executive producer: Hayek will executive produce alongside her Ventanarosa partners Jose Tamez and Siobhan Flynn, with Lehr also serving as an executive producer
‘We are so appreciative that HBO Max was insightful and bold enough to develop this show with us,’ Hayek said in a statement.
‘In A Boob’s Life, we use breasts as a metaphor for the constant judgement women are submitted to, creating a collective sensation that no matter what we do we are never enough,’ she added.
‘In this show, we give the breast a voice that takes us through the life of a woman from a unique perspective that often we don’t dare to see,’ Hayek concluded.
Bold: ‘We are so appreciative that HBO Max was insightful and bold enough to develop this show with us,’ Hayek said in a statement
Hayek is gearing up for a busy year, with her new film Bliss, starring alongside Owen Wilson, debuting on Amazon Prime on Friday.
She also returns as Sonia Kincaid in the sequel to 2017’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard, entitled The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, alongside Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson.
The beloved actress will also make her first foray into the superhero realm, playing Ajak in Marvel’s The Eternals, with Angelina Jolie and Gemma Chan, debuting November 5.
New show: Hayek is gearing up for a busy year, with her new film Bliss, starring alongside Owen Wilson, debuting on Amazon Prime on Friday