Penelope Cruz on Working with ‘Inspiring’ Pedro Almodovar and Emotional ‘Parallel Mothers’ Role: ‘It Was Like a Ticking Bomb’

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Oscar winner Penelope Cruz in Italian drama L’immensita, which is in post-production.

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are stepping out in style!

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.

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.

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.

Penélope Cruz is giving credit to her mom for her hair and makeup skills.

Playing a mother on screen really got to Penélope Cruz’s head.

Showbiz news here. She dated Tom Cruise from 2001 to 2004 after they met on the set of Vanilla Sky, a science fiction psychological film. At the time Tom was married to Nicole Kidman and he and Penelope began dating after they had filmed Vanilla Sky and Tom was no longer with Nicole.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWomen have always been in the center of Pedro Almodovar’s films, driving his narrative. For the past few years, a woman has also been in the editing chair. For years, José Salcedo Palomeque was his go-to editor, until Palomeque died in 2017.

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.