The truth about Penélope Cruz

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On her Oscar, her name is upside down. She’s a hypochondriac. She changes her lines on purpose.  Here’s the whole truth about Penélope Cruz.

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00:00When you win an Oscar, they give it to you without the plaque, which is below,

00:03which has your name and the title of the film, and the year.

00:08And then, when they gave me my plaque,

00:12my father put it on, but he didn't have the glasses, so he put it upside down.

00:24Man, I think this has ever happened to me, yes,

00:27to try to change a phrase that you know you won't be able to with it,

00:34because you know it's not right, and that the person in front of you

00:41doesn't want to hear any suggestions about a possible change,

00:44find a way to make it more credible, more organic.

00:49So, yes, surely, on more than one occasion,

00:52in some take, I improvised other things to see if they stuck.

00:58It's true, because I lived for a long time in a hotel,

01:02which was like my home, and for a long time, in a Los Angeles hotel, for years.

01:08I went and came, I traveled a lot to see my family in Spain, or they came,

01:13but I did pick up a lot of cats, I found cats non-stop,

01:17and some lived with me in the hotel, two, and I found a home for the others.

01:21I don't think he would give up, I don't even think about it.

01:29As an actor, I don't think so, because if he hasn't done it, it's because he hasn't wanted to.

01:33I think he's been offered a lot of things, well, he's participated in things,

01:37he's been a singer, as you well know, and I don't think he's going to act all of a sudden, I don't think so.

01:47For me, directing, it's something that I've been telling him since I was 16,

01:55since I met him, it's like my secret dream, I would like to one day start directing.

02:05When you win an Oscar, they give it to you without the plaque,

02:09which is below, which has your name and the title of the film, and the year.

02:15So when they gave me my plaque, my father put it on, but he didn't have the glasses, so he put it upside down.

02:23So I die of love and tenderness, and every time I see the Oscar, I'll never turn the plaque around, it'll stay like this.

02:34No, it's not true. The first time I was nominated, my father woke me up, he was with me in Los Angeles,

02:41and he told me, let's watch this live.

02:43And I told him, but dad, that's not okay, to wake up to watch it just in case,

02:48because if this is not going to happen, it's impossible.

02:50And he told me, daughter, I have a feeling, believe me, come with me, let's watch it.

02:56And I was with him and my dog came, my dog came and my dog said, they're not with us anymore.

03:04And I fell to the ground when I heard it, I couldn't believe it.

03:14I don't know if I'm as hypochondriac as they say.

03:18Although many friends and relatives would tell you that I am.

03:24I like to read medicine, I like to be informed, especially now that I have children.

03:28When I was little, when I played, I played until I was a mother or until I was a doctor.

03:33So, with my grandparents' crutches, I made medical recipes,

03:36and with my grandmother's insulin needles, I gave injections to the dolls.

03:40So, it's like, there's something there that I don't know where it comes from,

03:44and maybe if I wasn't an actress and I wasn't in this world,

03:48maybe I would have dedicated myself to something like that, because it seems fascinating to me.

03:52I think that if I can, I will never go back to cinema.

03:59I think it's something that makes me very happy, which is what I've wanted to do since I was a child.

04:03I'm starting to produce more, there are many areas that I want to explore and keep growing, keep learning.

04:11And this is a well without a background of learning, and this profession gives me a lot of happiness.

04:19I imagine myself at 80 years old, with the same excitement and the same fear when it comes to playing a character.

04:31In your interview, I haven't lied, which doesn't mean that I haven't lied in one before, but in yours I haven't.

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