“But I do know that she is waiting in her house and that if I write a script she will be the first addressee, especially if there is a character who is around her age and share some characteristics.” “No, Penelope does not bombard me with requests by phone to work with me,” Pedro said about one of his cinematic muses. Like I said before – that is something that you don’t see a lot around nowadays.” In those 12 hours, he will be completely present there for all of us and for every single department.
You will not see him with a cellphone or talking to somebody else. He can ask me to do something that can really scare me but I know he will be there in a way to sustain me.” Sometimes there are days that are not easy.” It’s a pleasure for us to be working together because we like working hard.” “From that first day, we really connected. We met for Kika but I was too young and he said, ‘I will write a character for you in my next movie’ and he did.” “Also that day, I hoped I could work with him. She recounted, “When I saw Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and obviously, I liked to get into the theater because you have to be 18 at that time to see it, I came out of the theater and I decided to look for an agent to do some castings, to try to work as an actress and to go to a theater school.”
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“I respect his process too much, to even think about like, oh, why didn’t he call me for that one? But when he calls, it’s like the call that makes me the happiest because he’s really the reason why I started to work as an actress when I was very young, like 16.”Īt that young age, the Madrid-born Penelope snuck inside a movie house to watch a popular R-rated film of the maestro and she was never the same again. “I know that when he’s preparing a film, if he thinks that I will be right for a role in every sense, he will call me,” said the actress, married since 2010 to Javier Bardem, who has also worked with Pedro. Penelope Cruz on her long and successful relationship with director Pedro Almodovar (right): ‘I feel like I am the luckiest girl in the world, being able to work with him for so many years’ So I am extremely grateful.”įrom their first film in 1997, Live Flesh, the two Spanish artists went on to work together in All About My Mother, Volver, Broken Embraces, I’m So Excited, Julieta, and Pain and Glory.
The actress, 47, added about her 72-year-old friend and director: “He has given me incredible opportunities, so many beautiful challenging characters, all of them so different from each other and so different from myself. Their most recent and eighth work together, Parallel Mothers ( Madres Paralelas), netted Penelope her first Volpi Cup for best actress in this year’s Venice Film Festival.Īsked about their enduring friendship and if she requests specific roles from the celebrated writer-director, Penelope replied, “I respect him too much to bombard him with requests.” Penelope and Pedro sat for a press conference in Venice where Parallel Mothers bowed, before opening in their native Spain last month and on Christmas eve in the US. Penelope and Pedro, who have known each other for 30 years, have won several awards as a result of their successful artistic collaboration. “I feel like I am the luckiest girl in the world, being able to work with him for so many years, seven different projects, different characters,” Penelope Cruz gushed about her 25-year working relationship with acclaimed filmmaker, Pedro Almodovar.
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