Penelope Cruz, unauthorized portrait of the diva. Photo and video

“Excuse me, but where is the restaurant where they make good tortellini?” August, a year ago, the center of Modena, a thousand thousand degrees in the shade. Penelope Cruz on the set of the film Ferraribiographical film dedicated to Enzo Ferrari in competition at the Venice Film Festival – Photo | video

There is also the “infiltrator” Penelope Cruz: how charming she is on the red carpet of David di Donatello – Look

TORtellini YES, CENTRIFUGAL NO – Lunch break. The production prepared a room for her with air conditioning and organic centrifuges. But when assistants look for her, the actress cannot be found. Alone, under the scorching sun, she went in search of tortellini with cream from Argia (the name shared by all of Emilia), the local queen tourtelin. In a souvenir photo with the chef, Pen is smiling in jeans and a T-shirt, as happy as a little girl. Because Penelope Cruz Sanchez from Alcobendas, hairdresser mother and mechanic father, 67 films, 75 awards, including an Oscar, is a diva by profession. But in life she is always a girl.

Penelope Cruz says: “I and Crialese were born of a woman. He answered all my questions with a couple of photographs” – Look

FROM A FERRARI WIFE TO A TRANSGENDER “What is known is that in the role of Laura Garello, the suffering and devoted wife of an engineer from Maranello, Cruz is extraordinary. “The humanity he gives to his characters belongs to him, it is inside him,” vows Pedro Almodóvar. This is true. Example: Venice Film Festival 2022 presentation VastnessAn autobiographical film by Emanuele Crialese about the story of a little girl who dreamed of becoming a boy.
Few people know the director’s transgender past, but his curiosity is palpable. When asked by a journalist what Crialese told her about his journey, Penelope Cruz was offended: “Confidence is kept in the heart.” Mother hen. The press writes that she is a cult actress – there is even a Barbie with her face – and comments on her friendship with Queen Letizia of Spain (real, but never on display). The truth is that Pen works in film. Passionate, meticulous. The one who conquered Hollywood with a strong head and diction courses; the one in whom to perform the birth scene Parallel mothers he demanded to know whether his character had an epidural “because that’s different.” Soon, he says, he would like to make his directorial debut with a documentary. However, after 30 years of filmmaking, he still doubts himself. “I always feel like a duck.” Critics say it’s more than a bird, it’s Anna Magnani in pimiento sauce, a volcano of Mediterranean emotion. This is what he uses to protect his privacy.

Penelope Cruz says: “Me, Rafaella Carra and the tears I shed for her” – Look

LOVE, AFTER 15 YEARS – Step back. Spain, 1992, flapper Jamon jamon. Sylvia, aka Penelope, a 16-year-old sassy beauty, is in the bathroom of a nightclub. Raul – 21-year-old Javier Bardem, who walks around with a bottle of beer in his jeans pocket – pulls her and kisses her in front of everyone, running his hands through her hair. The scene ends with a slap. The passion remains. You just need to be able to wait. 15 years. It took them so long to find each other, these two. Love returned in 2007 on the set of Woody Allen, after everyone had other romances (the most unlikely being her romance with Tom Cruise, abandoned due to Scientology). Today, Bardem and Cruise are husband and wife, with two children growing up out of the spotlight in Madrid, each with an Oscar on the shelf. They are the only two Spanish actors to win this award. He loves her: “When he saw me show up to the Met Gala in a vintage Chanel dress that made me look like a bride, he went crazy.” Oh, Cruise turns 50 next year. She keeps in shape with yoga, explains the diva. There chicaShe prefers tortellini.

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