The story of Penelope Cruz

Brut America

She once spent a week in India alongside Mother Teresa, and later donated all of the earnings from her first Hollywood film to charity. This is the story of the actress and activist Penélope Cruz.

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00:00Hi, I'm Penelope Cruz for Brut.

00:13We can all do something.

00:31I share with Pedro my addiction to cinema.

00:35I discovered it when I was 16, 17 years old.

00:38And I remember this feeling

00:41when I finished this first shooting.

00:45And I thought to myself,

00:47maybe it's the last one,

00:49and I couldn't stand this idea.

01:01Bigas is someone very important in my life

01:04because he's the first person who gave me...

01:08And yes, I discovered him in a movie by Bigas.

01:12Since I saw him in Jambon Jambon,

01:15I said, I want to work with her.

01:18I came to Los Angeles the first time in 1994.

01:22I spoke no English.

01:24I only knew how to say two things, two sentences.

01:27One was, how are you?

01:29The other one was, I want to work with Johnny Depp.

01:48I came back as a different person.

01:50And I remember having conversations

01:52with Mother Teresa about it and asking,

01:54what do I do now with my life when I go back?

01:57And I am a privileged person.

01:59I have this job that is great.

02:01I have a great life.

02:03How can I go on with this without feeling horrible?

02:06And she looked at me in the eye and said,

02:08use what you do.

02:10Use what you have.

02:12Use what you have.

02:14And she looked at me in the eye and said,

02:16use what you do.

02:18Use what you do to help people.

02:40Stop the hunger and start the hoping.

02:43Stop the food problem.

02:53We can all do something.

02:55I feel people always feel like,

02:57oh, but what can I do?

02:59Isn't there something for the government?

03:01No, I feel like we all in our home,

03:03in our environment, we all can do something

03:05to contribute to slow down global warming

03:07because it's already a reality as we all know.

03:10But it's a really scary thing.

03:12I feel it's my own fear, you know,

03:14about that reality that makes me want to be part of this.

03:42If movies represent life,

03:56if movies represent what happens in the streets,

03:59then we are all mixed together.

04:02In this room, how many accents are here?

04:04And not people that are just here for this week,

04:07but people that maybe half of them

04:09or at least a quarter of them would live here.

04:14So, we are all mixed together.

04:16And more and more every day.

04:18And that has to be reflected in cinema.

04:38Obviously, as an experience,

04:40that's the strongest one that you can have as a woman.

05:08As a Spanish actress, I feel truly grateful

05:10for how this country has made me feel welcome

05:12from the beginning.

05:14Today is a very special day that I will always remember.

05:18And every time I look at that star,

05:20written on it, I will see the names

05:22of all the people that have helped me

05:24make many of my dreams a reality.

05:37I hope that everything that has happened

05:39during the last months,

05:41which is so dark and sad and unpleasant,

05:44serves for something like this.

05:46That is, to go all dressed in black

05:48is a symbolic act,

05:50which will really create something

05:53that will make people feel

05:55that they are part of something,

05:57that they are a part of something.

05:59And I hope that this will be the case

06:01for the rest of my life.

06:03I hope that this will be the case

06:05for the rest of my life.

06:07I hope that this will be the case

06:09for the rest of my life.

06:32It's always a surprise.

06:34And also this one,

06:36because it was for my career

06:38since it started when I was 16.

06:42I think it was even more emotional for me

06:44because of that.

07:00We've worked together a few times

07:02and we don't take the characters home

07:06at the end of the day.

07:08We have very similar ways to work.

07:11The fact that we know each other

07:13and trust each other so much only helps.

07:24I don't wear fur.

07:26I've never enjoyed that.

07:28I'm so happy so many designers

07:30are coming to that list.

07:34I think it's not necessary.

07:56When I was growing up

07:58to be an actress

08:00my biggest dream was to get

08:02Pedro Almodovar's phone call.

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