Penelope Cruz Bans Phones and Social Media While Raising 2 Kids: I’m ‘Very Tough’

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorPenélope Cruz first met Pedro Almodóvar when she was cast in his 1997 film, “Live Flesh.” Almodóvar had originally wanted her to star in “Kika,” but Cruz was too young for the role. The director promised her he would write a character for another movie, and he did.

Two women meet in a maternity ward and their lives become inextricably linked in Pedro Almodóvar’s gentle but penetrating “ Parallel Mothers.”It’s a film that on one level plays like a melodrama, with wild twists and turns fitting of soap opera cliffhangers. But there is something deeper going on too, underneath the beautiful surface and base pleasures of plot and simply watching Penélope Cruz through Almodóvar’s loving lens.

Penelope Cruz is opening up about her family life with husband Javier Bardem and their two children, 8-year-old Lena and 10-year-old Leo, including a very strict rule about social media.The 47-year-old star revealed she has “a strange relationship with social media,” admitting she uses “very little of it in a very careful way,” as she feels too much usage doesn’t make sense “and it is especially affecting younger generations.”The actress says she doesn’t allow her kids to have social media

Penelope Cruz is opening up about why her children with husband Javier Bardem will not be on social media.

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem have always kept their children’s lives private and say they will continue to do so.

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Penélope Cruz is sharing her reaction to that shocking death on last week's premiere of the revival.On Tuesday night, ET's Rachel Smith spoke to Cruz, who was being honored at the Museum of Modern Art's Film Benefit, about what she thought about Mr. Big's (Chris Noth) unexpected passing. The Parallel Mothers actress is a fan of the franchise and even made a cameo in the movie.«I guess most people know already, but I could not believe it,» Cruz admitted.

NEW YORK -- During a tribute to her career at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Penelope Cruz recalled the Betamax videotape store that opened in her neighborhood, in a suburb of Madrid, when she was a child and that made her discover cinema.It was there where she rented all the films of Spanish movie director Pedro Almodóvar, she said.“I watched, and I laughed, I cried, and I learned," she said at a star-studded benefit Tuesday evening at the museum.

Penélope Cruz is sharing her reaction to that shocking death on last week's premiere of the revival.ET's Rachel Smith spoke to Cruz, who was being honored at the Museum of Modern Art's Film Benefit presented by Chanel Tuesday night, where the Parallel Mothers actress, who made a cameo in the franchise's second film, shared just what she thought about Mr. Big's (Chris Noth) unexpected passing.«I guess most people know already, but I could not believe it,» Cruz admitted.