Penélope Cruz could star with her husband Javier Bardem in the Ridley Scott drama “The Counselor,” The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday.

Cruz and Bardem have already acted together in “Jamon, jamon” (1992), “Carne tremula” (1997) where they shared no scenes and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (2008), a film that earned Cruz, a Madrid native, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

The project, in which Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt have already agreed to participate, has a script written by Cormac McCarthy, the author of the novel on which “No Country for Old Men” was based, a film for which Bardem won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

The story, like that of “No Country for Old Men,” is set on the U.S.-Mexican border and revolves around a lawyer (Fassbender) who gets involved in drug trafficking with the help of a pair of friends (Bardem and Pitt) to solve his money problems.

Cruz would play the wife of Fassbender’s character. According to the magazine, no formal offer has yet been made to the actress, but several conversations have taken place and it is expected that Cruz will shortly agree to participate.

Work on “The Counselor” is scheduled to begin in late June.

Currently, Bardem is filming alongside Daniel Craig in the latest James Bond flick “Skyfall.”

Photos of the Spanish actor surfaced online, sporting a police uniform and a blond wig in his role as the villain in the movie.

Angelina Jolie, who is now engaged to her long-time love, Brad Pitt, is also rumored to have a part in the film as the female lead — but nothing has been set in stone.

Penelope Cruz says she will only make one or two films a year now that she is a mother.

The 37-year-old Oscar-winning actress – who is set to appear in Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love – has 14-month-old son Leo with actor husband Javier Bardem.

Penelope told Harper’s Bazaar: “Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.”

The Spanish star said she divides her time between Madrid and Los Angeles, but while she loves Hollywood she does not want to settle there with her family.

“When I come here now, I have so many memories,” she said. “Some of them good, some of them not so good. I have lived beautiful moments here, but I don’t want to live here. It is not the place where I want to raise my kids.”

Penelope described herself as “being happier in my 30s than I was in my 20s”, but added that she considers herself a “worrier”

“I’m living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry,” she said. “But I have always worried about everything; it’s in my nature. It’s the thing that makes me suffer the most.”

Penelope and Javier are currently in London while he films the villain role in the new James Bond film.

source: Press Association

Penelope Cruz admits she worries too much.

The 37-year-old ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ star – who has one-year-old son Leonardo with husband Javier Bardem – says that although she is getting happier with age, her anxious side continues to bother her.

She said: “[I am a] worrier. I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it’s in my nature. It’s the thing that makes me suffer the most.

“I don’t like that about myself because it’s really painful. That’s still my main thing to work on. When that is better and I am more in the present, I’m sure it affects my work. But it’s all like periods of your life: You are present, or you’re dealing with a house of monsters.”

The Oscar-winning actress has cut back on her workload since becoming a mother and insists that’s the way she intends to keep it.

She told Harper’s Bazaar: “Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.”

As Spanish natives, she and Javier split their time between Madrid and Los Angeles, although Penelope is certain that she does not want to raise her children in Hollywood.

She added: “When I come here now, I have so many memories. Some of them good, some of them not so good.

“I have lived beautiful moments here, but I don’t want to live here. It is not the place where I want to raise my kids.”

source: winnipegfreepress.com

Spanish actress confesses that her idol ‘must think I’m crazy’

Even hot Hollywood stars get starstruck on occasion.

Penelope Cruz, the Spanish beauty who captured American audiences with her turn as Maria Elena in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” tells the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar that she still idolizes Meryl Streep.

“When I first started watching movies and I saw Meryl’s work, that’s when I became obsessed with acting,” she admits to the magazine. “Now I kiss her whenever I see her! She must think I’m crazy.”

Cruz, 37, even recalls once doing a magazine shoot with the “The Devil Wears Prada” actress and being put in the precarious position of posing on top of her.

“As soon as she got to the set, I had to sit topless on top of her,” she says of the AIDS charity (RED) campaign they both starred in. “It was the most interesting love scene I’ve ever done.”

Currently, the brunette stunner is set to star in Woody Allen’s “To Rome With Love” — but fans will have to accept a slower stream of films from the actress in coming years.

Cruz, who is married to actor Javier Bardem, 43, is learning to strike a better balance between work and family.

“Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now,” she said of spending time with the couple’s 1-year-old son, Leonardo.

And as for red-carpet affairs and big Hollywood to-dos, Cruz says she’ll pass if it means spending more time doing what she loves most: “running around with my family at the beach, that’s all.”

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