(ANSA) - VENICE, 01 SEPT - "I was 16 when I decided to become an actress and it was after seeing Legami !, hoping one day to work for Almodovar": the story between Penelope Cruz and the Spanish director is a long story of cinema, love , passion, respect.
Seven films together but for Madres Paralelas that imperfect, complicated mother "is perhaps the most difficult character I have ever played".
Cruz speaks of Pedrocon complicity and, it is well perceived, also with veneration.
"Each time is a gift, the departure for an intense and exciting journey. When he proposes a part to me, each time I think: 'this man wrote another marvel. It goes without saying that his is the most awaited phone call". Penelope, Almodovar confesses, "is the first I think of when writing a female character of her age. And I know that she expects and hopes that in every one of my films there will be a role for her.
There is no need for you to pressure me, you bombard me with phone calls, she knows that I am thinking of her. "Carne trémula, All about my mother, Volver - Return, The broken embraces, The passenger lovers, Dolor y gloria and now Madres paralelas: this filmography together "but there has always been a great harmony with the first character, we immediately understood each other. And even when it's hard work, like this one, after all it's a piece of cake because he doesn't make you feel alone, it's my safety - he says adoringly - Pedro is totally at the service of his film, he's very focused on the set, you don't see him doing anything else, either. taking a phone call and then the preparation, months of rehearsals, recitation of the screenplay, explanations, mutual dedication, builds each film like a craftsman and takes care of it in the smallest details ". (ANSA).