Bill Penelope Cruz that she decided to be an actress when she got to see Tie me up. It was 1989, he was 15 years old and he had to lie his age in order to see the movie. There he discovered another world, that of Pedro Almodovar. A world full of color, with strong women. That made him dream that she could be an Almodóvar girl. Who was going to tell him that it was going to be with that director, who left a town in La Mancha to make films, with whom he would achieve everything. He saw in her more than just a pretty face. He saw an actress full of records, of resources. Eyes capable of moving. He saw Janis in her, the protagonist of Parallel Mothers with which Penelope Cruz has become the first Spanish to win the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.
An award with which he has made history again. Because she was also the first Spanish actress to win the acting award at Cannes, again in a film by Almodóvar -Return- and together with the rest of the film’s actresses in a decision that highlighted the director’s work with those women for whom he writes unique roles.
It all started when he saw Tie me up, but Penelope had already noticed Pedro, as she recognized recently in a meeting in Venice where EL ESPAÑOL attended: “He is someone who enters your life and gives you as much as a friend, as a teacher of so many things, as inspiration … my political reference since I was a child was him. He was not a politician. Pedro for president! I said: look, things can be different. I used to say, that’s where you have to go, and I’m not referring to the move, but to its message. I was moving a lot of things inside, I said: that person has to be in my life ”.
Penelope Cruz with her Volpi cup for best actress for ‘Parallel Mothers’.
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But what we now see in her maturity as an actress was forged elsewhere. Before the Cristina Rota School, and before all the acting courses, Penelope learned at the hairdresser run by her mother, Encarna Sánchez. “I remember those women so many times and with so many characters … it is that there I paraded everything, imagine. I would hide behind the books and spy on them and the relationship they had with my mother. It was my first school. of interpretation, because I saw what was told and what was not told and spent hours and hours listening, “said the actress to EL ESPAÑOL with the Volpi Cup in hand after winning in Venice.
There he dreamed of many things, including some that seemed impossible. “I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream,” she said excitedly in her speech when she picked up the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress by Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Little by little those dreams have come true one by one, also this Volpi Cup, one of the most important recognitions in the world of cinema. A recognition that, in addition, also has his partner, Javier Bardem. They are the only two Spaniards who have it.
I would hide behind the books and spy on those women. It wasn’t just what they said, but what they didn’t say, how they related. It was my first acting school
In that hairdresser she learned, but freshness brought her from home. It is exciting to see the images of the premiere of Ham Ham, where Penelope Cruz made her film debut, wasting energy and charisma. How he moved, how he defended his character with a magic that was contagious. That movie changed his life. Professional and personal. He put her in the spotlight of the entire Spanish film industry. He also introduced her to the father of her children. In fact, they both visited Venice with that movie for which Bigas Luna he won here, as he recalled at the press conference after knowing his award.
Since then decades have passed, roles, his Hollywood debut, his Oscar, but always with one constant: Almodóvar. It always returns to him. “I can do whatever he asks me because I know he is there, he is my net of salvation. I can jump into the pool because he sees everything, “he said just ten days ago. I thanked him for thinking of her, “having imagined”. Pedro Almodóvar answered him making it clear that everything he saw was already there: “All that was you. They are your eyes, they are your tears, it is your body, your gutter… ”.
Getting to this moment has been all built by his hand. Also from other directors who have given me opportunities, but what I have with him… I can’t talk about what I’ve done. I have only tried to measure up, give you my 100%. I feel very lucky, ”Cruz said to Almodóvar at the time. He gave it 100% and it showed. The jury noticed. Spectators notice it. And despite this great moment, this new maturity, there is something about her that continues to remind her of that girl who watched between carding and highlights. Something that makes us always believe it and that continues to make history.
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