So now yet: a meeting with Penelope Cruz. You’ve ever been waiting for them, they tell her. Many years ago, in Paris, in a park, where they made a film. But at night came the news that she and her boyfriend at the time, the somewhat eerie Tom Cruise, had separated. In the morning it was said that she had locked herself, wanted to talk to anyone. And three months ago was one already was almost on the way to Madrid, when a call came, no, she will not talk. It is not easy to make an appointment with Penelope Cruz
She sits there, smiles and says slyly. “Was that Nobody told me that you are here?”.
Beautiful rate, determined fib, but no matter. There are many reasons why Penelope Cruz so shy dealing with the public. The few questions about the films in which she plays would be answered quickly. Just as at the press conference that day in Berlin, where she has been trying to give the completely wrong and sometimes confused fashion spectacle “Zoolander 2″ directed by and starring Ben Stiller sense. Cruz knows that journalists are now around tug at her and -zerren to her, perhaps the last appearance of beauty and mystery that still has the cinema. This woman of the director Cameron Crowe once said she had three-quarters of sweetness and a quarter hardness. Without Cruz many films of the Spaniard Pedro Almodovar ( “Volver”) would be worth only half. And in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” led them before, why men can lose their minds in cinema.
Penelope Cruz solves whatever she plays a lot more than just a movie , The Gag fireworks “Zoolander 2″ lawn the images on the screen, but whenever her face appear large, one would like to press and remain the pause button. Just as in a museum in front of a great work of art.
The rumors of their lives are colorful
Cruz not much doing it, it’s just Penelope Cruz , and therefore it is the plucking of her life troublesome. The obligatory women’s magazines questions as slender sticks and what she thinks about plastic surgery, they can check off routinely. Of course, the boulevard would also like to know how they could get calculated into the arms of Lebensverhafters Tom Cruise then and how they escaped from the clutches again. And if they really have an affair with the other lunatics, Nicolas Cage, had. And with the and the, the rumors about her life are colorful. But for that she remains silent. Just tell nothing. Says only that it is with Javier Bardem, the Spanish spectacle Rock, married, lives in Spain and a five year old son and a two-year daughter. She knows Bardem long, he was a friend of her youth, when she together turned their first films. “Want to meat”, for example, create a scandal with a frequently naked Cruz and Bardem, who only brings his penis into position in front of a bull. It was the time of the wild child.
Was she sometimes still in Alcobendas, this former working-class suburb of Madrid next to the airport, where she was born? “Yes, sometimes already, it was my life and drama school.” But not a bit drab apartment block streets, the alleys, the clotheslines on the streets, no, it was the hair salon where her mother worked. “I’m always gone, and my mother was watching at work. It was a place where wanted to transform or hide the women. Hairstyles were for them a way to be other people. I always observed. And I . listened “
her mother did not just hair, it was the therapist of the neighborhood:” your they told everything about their husbands, their loved ones, their bodies I’ve absorbed it all and they.. observed, this was the most important school. ” Is it true that their name came from the Spanish hit “Penélope” by Joan Manuel Serrat, who was played at that time anywhere? “Yes, but it is not a hit, it’s a very beautiful song,” she says, that her father, an auto mechanic, and her mother had been well considered. She wants now further tell which. With the hair salon “I’ve just learned to observe. It can be observed for an actress the most important thing.” The knowledge they owe the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti. “It is observed the difference between and be observed. We are all at the same time observers of ourselves. And it is the difference between these observations that drives us, you understand? If we stop paying attention to ourselves, we listen to, to evolve. ” Philosophy with Penelope Cruz, Tuesday afternoon on a couch in Berlin
The beautiful face and these abysses -. It fit
She speaks very fast and has with 41 still a girl’s voice, English with Spanish accent. The tone is mostly soft; you can hear that it could at any time switch to sharp. Never searching for words, what it says is likely. Only her black pantsuit, her very dark hair and her dark eye makeup irritate; the only bright spot in her is the face. Her body and her appearance should not matter, they can say their clothes.
When she was born in 1974, the Franco dictatorship neared its end. The following year, died the last bloody dictator of Western Europe, and Spain woke up in a flower young new freedom. The people rubbed their eyes and had to learn what freedom is. To say what one thinks. To show what you want. Cruz was a child of that time and lifestyle. Everything went, nothing was forbidden, nothing unthinkable. As a teenager she began to watch movies. There were in Alcobendas no cinema, but her father had later a VCR. She looked much, mostly Spanish films in which a country told of himself. “And then I saw a film of Pedro Almodóvar , which was not only director but one that politics and art made into films. It was exhilarating, I wanted to be there. “
Almodóvar was a young Wilder in Kulturkampf, the dried morale of Franco years should be thrown finally into disarray. With loud and colorful films with outrageous stories and nudity, because being naked was freedom. In this maelstrom and this festival the young Penélope fell. “Spectacle meant to have the freedom to travel to all levels of human nature, to play in it and to explore it.” That was running around like a jungle and marvel. In an Almodóvar movie Cruz played a pregnant prostitute and then in “All About My Mother”, a – Warning – contracted AIDS nun who was pregnant by a transvestite
The beautiful face and these chasms. – it fit, it was drama. Penélope played just as it was. Others would be verhässlicht with makeup, be glued scars would become perhaps thick. Method acting up – going an asshole before playing a. Cruz makes no such thing. And here comes the shy woman a little closer: Many saw her as the beautiful Spanish Bloom, who played the weeds. They played so that flower and weeds were one. That did not understand each
Alomodóvar called and said:. “Come home”
Most directors and producers only looked at the flower. She was 25 and had turned about 30 films in Europe, and she thought Hollywood was the jungle, where there is more to discover. But Hollywood did not want a discoverer, but the Spanish deer. She turned to Matt Damon, with Johnny Depp and even Tom Cruise, in which she is, well, love. They were good and half-good movies, but it was there not a single genuine Penelope movie, not a flower-and-weed-film.
Penelope Cruz with Owen Wilson (l.) and Ben Stiller at the premiere of Zoolander in New York
“It’s hard to make a career, if you all world holds only for beautiful, you want to be serious but. Nobody takes you seriously when all think you’re just a pretty woman, “she says. It was again Pedro Almodóvar, who saw the movie in, “Sahara” and such nonsense, and she called: “. Come home” Cruz came. The rescued. Fits to now buzzing their smartphone, it looks short back and smiles. “This is Pedro, I love him.” If you ask her if she the Hollywood slapstick “ Zoolander has 2 “rotated because Ben Stiller was indeed a Hollywood head, but at least a crazed Hollywood head, she smiles diplomatically. “I do not make a distinction between America and Europe. I distinguish between directors.” Her eyes look as if they could kill.
On this day in Berlin she sat together with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell, a Hollywood transition from “Zoolander 2″, Cruz was the only woman, the only one from another variety theater. At the press conference someone asked why she had chosen to “Zoolander”, and Cruz says she was shopping in a supermarket diapers, as Stiller called her and she begged. Cute smile in the audience. Ben Stiller then: “I was attracted to me a diaper to call Penelope.” Loud laughter, all bend. Only Penelope Cruz not.
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