Many things in this interview revolve around the

feet,

that part of the body that is rarely talked about despite the complex and conflicting passions it unleashes.

Of all our geography, the feet are without a doubt the most extravagant area, difficult for beauty and with the greatest tendency to become ugly and goofy, which makes it difficult to make them fit into an ideal (if there is one).

Those of

Elsa Pataki,

45 years old, are small, bony and what the high wedges with which she appears at the Gioseppo event in Madrid reveal reveals them tanned (like the rest of her body) and very well cared for.

I look at her feet for a few moments not because we're at a shoemaker's event, but because I can't help but, like a good mythomaniac, try to draw as complete a portrait as possible of this woman who is a true sex symbol of our time.

For at least a decade, and especially through her covers for Elle magazine, Pataky has been the ambassador of a beauty brimming with health and joy, very far from the 'heroin chic' that so fascinated (and its sequels continue) to a certain sector of printed glamour.

To finish rounding off the myth, the actress married a god, come on, with another 'sex symbol',

Chris Hemsworth,

alias Thor, a man cheese who, like her, likes her.

They have been together since 2010, they have had three children and at the moment they live away from the madding crowd of Hollywood in a coastal town in eastern Australia where Elsa Pataky, guess what, always goes barefoot.

What relationship do you have with your own feet?

Do you fit among those who hate them or among those who love them?

Hahaha, the truth is that I don't get along badly with them.

I don't mind showing them.

I actually go barefoot a lot.

I think it is important to feel good, especially when you are in the middle of nature, to feel contact with the earth.

In fact, to tell you the truth, I prefer not to wear shoes where I live.

I can afford it because it is a very clean, coastal town, where there is little pollution, so I walk a lot barefoot, I love it.

My feet have already got used to walking on very hot floors, or on rocks... And how does it go from there to the heel?

Because even tendons change when you're always flat...I loved high-heeled shoes, I think they stylize a woman's body a lot.

But one day I was walking around New York in heels with my daughter hanging in a baby carrier, I tripped, I fell and my husband told me: "One thing cannot go with the other."

I told him that he was absolutely right and since then the heels have been only for special occasions.

In any case, you don't need heels to set the nets on fire.

Yesterday he did it with a photo on Instagram.

It was actually the last of a series of four where we saw her on vacation with Chris and his children, a distant photo in a bikini that suddenly became a trending topic.

Really?

Hahaha, I put it at the end, so it wouldn't create much... But people see all the photos, huh?

I said 'bah', I'm going to upload it just to inspire, that was my intention, to tell people that at an age you can stay well and if you exercise,

take care of yourself and lead a healthy life, you can get it.

I do it because I like to look and feel proud of my body, and I also like to have a strong athletic body.

I know not everyone likes it, but I do.

I have worked on it for many years.

And there it is, in the Instagram photo. How has your way of doing physical exercise changed over the years? I've been training since I was 17 or 18 years old.

Because my first relationship was with someone who was very involved in sports, very healthy, and we did it together.

And I have continued because he suits me very well.

Throughout all that time I have been testing and seeing what kind of exercises were best for my body.

There was a time when I killed myself doing sit-ups.

Then I wanted strong arms.

Then I started with yoga, which is very good for keeping you fit and stretching your muscles.

And now? There comes a time in life when you need to do something else to be strong and to have strong buttocks.

And for that, yoga is not very useful.

To maintain muscle, so that it does not start to 'fall', vulgarly speaking, what works is heavy weights.

How much do you lift? Quite a lot, for the buttocks 80-90 kilos and the shoulder about 40 kilos... But with a machine.

It's the only way to 'shock your body', for your brain to clack and you enter a process that makes you capable of coping.

And to exercise, barefoot or slippers? I

what works is heavy weights.

How much do you lift? Quite a lot, for the buttocks 80-90 kilos and the shoulder about 40 kilos... But with a machine.

It's the only way to 'shock your body', for your brain to clack and you enter a process that makes you capable of coping.

And to exercise, barefoot or slippers? I

what works is heavy weights.

How much do you lift? Quite a lot, for the buttocks 80-90 kilos and the shoulder about 40 kilos... But with a machine.

It's the only way to 'shock your body', for your brain to clack and you enter a process that makes you capable of coping.

And to exercise, barefoot or slippers? I

train

barefoot

Because my basic training is now with weights.

Not impact.

And I feel safer and more balanced without shoes. Since we are back on our feet, yesterday barefoot in Australia, today on these wedges in Madrid promoting a shoe brand.

My relationship with Gioseppo arose a long time ago, we have been working together for seven years, it is a company and a brand with values ​​that are very important to me.

They also have an organization called Esperanza Pertusa, with very valuable initiatives focused on women, such as helping African albinos. And apart from some Giuseppos, what's he up to? to promote and which will be released theatrically in Australia on May 25 and internationally on Netflix on June 7.

It's produced by Chris and it's been really special because it's the first time we've worked together.

It has also been quite a challenge, I have followed very intense military training for four months, because I wanted to represent that strong woman, that soldier, and the efforts she has to make to be so.

I've always loved action movies, I got really into it and wanted to do it all.

I feel very proud of her, I think she is very entertaining.

And I love that my children also feel proud because they see that her mother is a 'bad ass', as they say in English.

Just like her father, that she is in all the movies saving the world.

Well, now I also want to save the world. You know that you will inevitably be compared to Demi Moore... I would love to!

I think in 'Lieutenant O'Neill'

she played an incredible role, she was super prepared physically. This film has been made in Australia, but what do you do when you have to work abroad?

Does the family that travels together stay together? Normally we have done that, when Chris traveled we all traveled together, now the children are a little older and it is a little more difficult.

What Chris is trying to do is work in Australia and close to where we are.

'Interceptor' for example was made there, although we had to go to Sydney for three months.

We took the whole family, including my mother, who was the one that the children saw the most while we were there. living there I knew I was going very far.

And yes, sometimes I feel like I'm too far away and it's heavy.

Because you miss many things,

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