Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek open Cannes with “Puss in Boots”

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Latin actors Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas kicked off the Cannes Film Festival today with an event promoting the animated 3D film “Puss in Boots”.

Banderas and Hayek captured photographers attention when they walked their way though the red carpet surrounded by a group of flamenco dancers and climbed into a giant pair of boots waving to the crowds.

Málaga actor Banderas who already was the cat’s voice in the animated feature film “Shrek” started dancing with Pitbull’s I know you want me miaowing some notes to promote Chris Miller’s spin-off.

Hayek, who gives her voice to the character Kitty Softpaws, radiated in a Gucci dress saying after escalating the huge pair of boots: “It was a little strange, but I'm just happy I don't have vertigo.”

“Puss in Boots” (Dreamworks) will be released on 4 November in the USA.

Banderas stars in Pedro Almodóvar film “The skin I live in” (“La Piel que habito”), which competes for the Palme d'Or and will be projected on 19 May.