Penélope Cruz to Receive Variety's Creative Impact in Acting Award

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• Louis Gossett Jr., ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ star who broke barriers in Hollywood, dies
• Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz talk new film 'Ferrari' and their roles as the Italian couple
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• Michael Mann on the ‘savage beauty’ of ‘Ferrari’: ‘I wanted to put you in the driver’s seat’
• The 20 movies we’re most excited about this fall

In Ferrari, the paneling is dark wood, the suits are gray, and the only pop of red is the cars. Calling over Zoom from the home in Madrid she shares with her husband, actor Javier Bardem, and two children, Cruz is eager to talk about the film, though our conversation keeps digressing in ways both delightful and altogether unexpected. Sometime since we last spoke, for instance, Cruz has taken a passionate interest in reading books about medicine.

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Here she is torn between her hunky fisherman boyfriend, played by Christian Bale, and of course, the outrageously accented Italian officer Captain Corelli, played by Nicolas Cage, billeted on her island and twanging away at that awful mandolin of his. You have to wonder if Penélope Cruz manifested her first phone call from Pedro Almodóvar. As a young girl growing up in Madrid, she watched Betamax tapes of his movies over and over, hoping that the Spanish auteur might find a place for her in his bright and bold world. She dreamed about it so often that the day he did phone her about a role, it didn’t even feel like the first call — it felt like the tenth, or the hundredth, from someone she already knew very well. Penélope Cruz (born April 28, 1974, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish actress known for her portrayal of sultry characters. She achieved early success in Spanish cinema and quickly established herself as an international star.

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Directed by Michael Mann, "Ferrari" which also stars Shailene Woodley, Patrick Dempsey and Gabriel Leone, offers the audience plenty of action and spectacle for sports car fans. In the film, Cruz explained one particular scene that was filled with devastation and rage where Laura Ferrari was blaming her husband for the death of their son. Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz have opened up about their roles as the famous Italian couple who were the founders of the legendary sports car brand in "Ferrari." A source familiar with the project, who wished to remain anonymous, said the construction should be complete in about two weeks. It is unknown which of the Hollywood stars will be filming on the 83-acre grounds of Snug Harbor Cultural Center.

Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz talk new film 'Ferrari' and their roles as the Italian couple

Cruz achieved greater international recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films Vanilla Sky, All the Pretty Horses, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Blow. Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born on April 28, 1974, in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain. Cruz was born as the eldest of three and a natural performer; her father, Eduardo, worked as a car mechanic, and her mother, Encarna, was a hairdresser. As a child, Cruz amused her family by re-enacting television commercials.

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Cruz's next film was the kid-friendly G-Force,[90] voicing a guinea pig spy named Juarez.[90] G-Force was a commercial success, making over $290 million worldwide.[91] Also in 2009, she appeared in the film Broken Embraces as Lena. Cruz's final 2009 film was the film version of the musical Nine, playing the character Carla Albanese, the lead character's mistress. Variety reported that Cruz originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star,[93] Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman. When Cruz was a little girl, 3, 4 years old, she’d play with friends in Madrid, always taking one of two roles — mother or doctor. And even at that young age, she was aware that she was acting, exploring other people’s realities, how they were thinking and feeling and reacting.

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Michael Mann on the ‘savage beauty’ of ‘Ferrari’: ‘I wanted to put you in the driver’s seat’

In her latest film, Cruz plays a 40-something single woman who becomes pregnant unintentionally. While at the hospital, her character meets a pregnant teen who is very unhappy about having a baby. This year’s movie is, as mentioned, “Ferrari,” playing a part that Mann calls the “ferocious heart” of the film. He also tells me that Cruz was “formed by nature to do this role.” Yes, he’s rather taken with her. When “Ferrari” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in late August, the audience laughed — partly from shock, partly from appreciation of the way Cruz nailed the scene.

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I want to talk with you about another theme in the movie, and that is a much more political theme, and it has to do with reckoning with the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, in which the fascists won, leading to a decades-long dictatorship of Francisco Franco. So you didn't live under his dictatorship, but your family did, and everybody older than you did. No easy scenes, she says, noting, “I think Adam and I smile at each other twice during the movie.” When she and Mann traveled to Modena, Italy, to research the project, many contemporaries of Laura said she was “crazy” and “difficult.” Cruz doesn’t see it that way. Enzo Ferrari launched his motor company with Laura in postwar Italy and in “Ferrari,” we see that its fortunes, such as they are in 1957, are tied to its success at the racetrack. Enzo (played by Adam Driver) needs an investor to keep the company afloat and, to accomplish this, he needs Laura to sign over her half of the business. But after Laura discovers that Enzo has a second family — a mistress (Shailene Woodley) and a 12-year-old son he had with her during the war — she’s not particularly keen to help.

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I know we have to go through this process, but those are your own tears, and they are not the ones of the characters. And in my case, for Janis, we express ourselves in very different ways. My character is more - in a situation like the one she goes through, I would be crying, like, 20 times a day. Eduardo lives in Los Angeles, and although Cruz’s own children are just 10 and 12, she feels like she’s already gone through the empty nest process of letting a loved one she cared for go. Otherwise, everyone else in her family lives about five minutes from her home.

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Following this early success, she landed several roles as a dancer for music videos, as well as a gig hosting Spanish TV's La Quinta Marcha. Additionally, Cruz explored her more sensual side in the French erotic TV series Serie Rose. In July 2010, Cruz married her Vicky Cristina Barcelona co-star, Spanish actor Javier Bardem.

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