Penélope Cruz talks of romance on the set
Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Hot Momma
Penélope Cruz talked to writer John Hiscock, a bit about her reputation of becoming romantically involved with her leading men. She famously starred with Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky, and went on to have a three-year relationship with him. She also dated Matthew McConaughey, her co-star in Sahara. She says:
“I’ve never fallen in love with someone I’m working with. It’s always been afterwards. If something becomes friendship, then maybe months later it becomes something else, but you can never know. It’s always a mystery. You can’t plan those things.”
For the past year, the 34-year-old actress has been in a settled relationship with her most recent leading man, Javier Bardem, 39. Bardem is a fellow Spaniard and multi-award-winning actor whom she first met when she was 16 when they worked together in her debut film, Jamón jamón. She fell in love with Bardem while playing his fiery and tempestuous ex-wife in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Woody Allen recalls that during the filming in Barcelona, Cruz and Bardem often spoke passionately to each other in Spanish, and he had no idea what they were saying.
In Vicky Cristina Barcelona, as in many of her films, she plays a woman searching for happiness, which is something she can relate to.
“In the end we are all looking for the same thing, no? We all want to be happy and we all have different ways of looking for it and finding it. I guess that’s why we’re all here.”
While they are reluctant to talk about their relationship, friends of the couple say this could be the one that lasts. When they have finished promoting Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Javier & Penélope plan to find a house together in London, where Cruz will spend five months rehearsing and filming the musical Nine, with a cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard.
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