EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Oscar winner Penelope Cruz in Italian drama L’immensita, which is in post-production.
28.01.2022 - 19:15 / variety.com
Penélope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”) and Benedict Cumberbatch (“Power of the Dog”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.Benedict Cumberbatch is so over Zoom. But a new spike in COVID-19 cases with the omicron variant has meant that his planned sit-down with Penélope Cruz will instead unfold over a screen.
It’s a change that’s causing some technical hurdles. A vacationing Cruz (who is somewhere in Spain) is battling a weak internet connection, and Cumberbatch is grappling with instructions that require him to upload video to the cloud, check his microphone levels and make sure that his iPad battery doesn’t run out. “Is there an actor who enjoys this process?” he asks with an exaggerated sigh.But once the conversation gets going, the two performers — who briefly appeared together in 2016’s “Zoolander 2” — quickly fall into a familiar rhythm as they talk about their most recent films roles.
In Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” Cumberbatch stars as a sexually repressed cowboy. Cruz, too, is harboring her own secrets as a single mother in Pedro Almodóvar’s drama “Parallel Mothers.”BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: This is so surreal. Of all the moments in my life to meet you and talk about your work, the fact that there is a pandemic and I’m having to do it through computers, it is a slight tarnish on what is a very lovely thing to be in your company.PENÉLOPE CRUZ: You know, we met briefly during “Zoolander 2.”CUMBERBATCH: Did we? Did we just cross paths on that night shoot?CRUZ: Yeah, exactly.
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Oscar winner Penelope Cruz in Italian drama L’immensita, which is in post-production.
Javier Bardem at Saturday’s Goya prize ceremony. The prizes marked both Leon and Bardem’s seventh Goya wins. Produced by El Reposado and The Mediapro Studio, and a workplace dramedy skewering the abuse of power practised by a seemingly benign factory owner, “The Good Boss” also won best director and original screenplay for León, as well as best score and editing.Blanca Portillo beat out “Parallel Mothers’” Oscar-nominated Penélope Cruz, thanks to Portillo’s powerful performance as Maixabel Lasa, the real life widow of former Basque Country governor Juan Mari Jauregui who agreed in 2011 to meet one of his ETA killers. Her forgiveness, and Portillo’s portrait, has touched a large nerve in Spain.
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are stepping out in style!
Javier Bardem is very involved in this year’s Academy Awards race. Not only was he nominated for Best Actor for the film Being The Ricardos, but his wife and co-star were also nominated for Best Actress. In short; he’s rooting for a lot of people.Penelope Cruz is ready to make a musical with husband Javier Bardem: ‘I had no idea I could sing’Javier Bardem reveals he surprised Daniel Craig by popping out of a cake dressed as a Bond girlA post shared by Nicole Kidman (@nicolekidman)This past Tuesday, February 8th, the Academy Awards announced their nominations for best performances and films of the year.
Parallel Mother and Bardem was nominated for portraying Cuban Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos. Javier Bardem and Cruz, who have been married since 2010Bardem’s casting was widely criticized — many felt Arnaz should’ve been played by a Latinx, ideally Cuban, actor. Bardem responded by stating, “We should all start not allowing anybody to play Hamlet unless they were born in Denmark.
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Ethan Shanfeld Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley have joined Michael Mann’s racing film “Ferrari.”The big-budget biopic follows ex-racecar driver and auto manufacturing giant Enzo Ferrari in the summer of 1957. With his marriage in crisis over the mourning of a son, and the threat of bankruptcy looming over the company he and his wife built 10 years earlier, Ferrari embarks on a bold race — the Mille Miglia, 1,000 miles across Italy.Driver replaces Hugh Jackman, who had initially signed on to play the title character.
For years, Michael Mann has been trying to make his “Ferrari” biopic. Back in 2015, the film seemed on the right track with Christian Bale in the lead role.
Adam Driver is taking on a new role!
The project has famously been through multiple iterations, but this is as far along as the casting has been at any stage.
Salma Hayek couldn't be prouder of her best friend, Penelope Cruz.MORE: Salma Hayek's swimsuit diet and fitness secrets revealedOn Tuesday, the Mexican star took to Instagram to celebrate the news that both Penelope and her husband, Javier Bardem, have been nominated for the 2022 Oscars.WATCH: Salma Hayek reveals beauty secret behind youthful appearancePenelope, 47, has received a Best Actress nod for her role in Parallel Mothers – the story of two mothers who give birth on the same day. Javier, meanwhile, has been lauded for his portrayal of Desi Arnaz in Being The Ricardos.READ: Salma Hayek shares rare glimpse into daughter Valentina's personal lifeMORE: Salma Hayek turns heads in wetsuit in gorgeous new photosDelighted Salma, 55, soon took to Instagram to celebrate their achievements.
assure you.”The possibility of his and hers nominations – his for playing Desi Arnaz in “Being the Ricardos,” hers for starring in Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” – made for an eventful morning in the Bardem/Cruz household. “It’s been a beautiful day at home,” he said with a big grin.
2022 Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday — and it was a big day for Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz!The two were nominated for top acting awards, with Bardem earning his third career Best Actor nod for his performance as Dezi Arnaz in and Cruz garnering her second Best Actress nomination for her role in Pedro Almodóvar's The pair, who married in 2010 and share a son, Leo, and a daughter, Luna, are the first married couple to both be nominated for the Academy's top acting awards since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were nominated together in 1967 for (Taylor won, Burton didn't, and they would divorce a few years later.)However, they're not the only acting couple to be nominated together this year. Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst, who announced their engagement in 2017 and share two children together, both scored supporting nods for Bardem and Cruz are each one-time Oscar winners; Bardem won Best Supporting Actor in 2008 for his role as assassin Anton Chigurh in and Cruz won Best Supporting Actress the following year for in which Bardem was her co-star.Following his nomination, Bardem released a statement to ET, which reads, «To embody Desi Arnaz’s spirit was a privilege and an honor and to be connected to his energy and legacy is something I will never forget.
In an apparent Oscar first, two real-life couples – Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, and Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons – received nominations covering all four acting categories.
Benedict Cumberbatch has reflected on playing a non-binary role in Zoolander 2, admitting that it “backfired”.The Marvel actor played the role of model All in the 2016 sequel, which drew a huge backlash at the time and a petition launched to boycott the film gained over 25,000 signatures.Reflecting on taking the role during a chat with fellow Zoolander 2 star Penelope Cruz as part of Variety‘s Actors On Actors series, Cumberbatch admitted he wouldn’t take the part if it were offered today.“There was a lot of contention around the role, understandably now,” he recalled. “And I think in this era, my role would never be performed by anybody other than a trans actor.“But I remember at the time not thinking of it necessarily in that regard, and it being more about two dinosaurs, two heteronormative clichés not understanding this new diverse world.“But it backfired a little bit,” Cumberbatch added.
If he could do it all over, Benedict Cumberbatch would not have portrayed a non-binary model in “Zoolander 2”.