By Tommaso Koch
(El País)
One day, years ago, Penélope Cruz got the call she dreamed of the most in the world. But she refused to pick up. She thought it was a joke. In bad taste, what's more. Why would anyone play with the illusions of a teenage girl?
"I said: 'yes yes that's it'",
remembers the actress today. But his family insisted: Pedro Almodóvar was waiting on the other end of the phone. For the young girl, it was impossible: the director of
Tie me up!
, the film that had marked her so much that she had decided to become an actress, asked to speak to her. It couldn't be true. When the voice of the filmmaker congratulated her on her first roles, she had no other choice but to believe in it. And yet she doeswas not at the end of his surprises.
To read also Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz, to life, to "love"
Because this call was the first of a long series, giving birth to a friendship and a collaboration which last 30 years later.
If the filmmaker dismissed her from
Kika
because she was too young, he
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