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EXCLUSIVE: As expected, Penelope Cruz has joined the stellar cast of the Ridley Scott-directed The Counselor, and I’m told that she is planning to team up again this summer with director Pedro Almodovar in Los Amantes Pasajeros, the comedy he will shoot this summer in Madrid. The title’s translation is The Brief Lovers, and reports say it’s about an affair on an airplane. It is what the actress considers a special collaboration between herself and Almodovar, whose films together include Broken Embraces, Volver, All About My Mother and Live Flesh. Cruz joins Paz Vega, Lola Dueñas, Javier Cámara, Cecelia Roth, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo and José Maria Yazpik.
In The Counselor, Cruz will star with Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem and Cameron Diaz in a drama that has been called No Country For Old Men on steroids. Cruz is repped by CAA, Untitled and Spain-based Katrina Bayonas.
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So does this mean she is playing the femme fatale character that everyone guessed Cameron Diaz was going to play when she was cast last month and that Cameron Diaz is playing the fiancé character?
Nice to read some Spanish film names in Deadline. Those are great professionals, actors & director. Thanks, Mike Fleming
Nice to see Paz Vega is going to be in Almodovar’s new film. She’s wonderful, wonder if she and Cruz will be playing sisters.
I’m glad she resurrected her career when she went back to do “Volver” with Almodovar. SHe has enormous talent and learned the lessons of doing what your American agents tell you to do. Remember her decade of Woman On Top, Sahara, Gothika, Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno?
Finally, she went back to her roots to actually ACT. And now she can have her agents give her “Pirates of the Caribbean” for the big bucks and choose her own films for good work. That’s how yo do it.