When Penélope Cruz was growing up in Madrid in the late 1970s, her parents lugged home a huge Betamax machine. After that, it was movies every night until, at the tender age of 13, she caught her first Almodóvar film and went out and found herself an agent. Her other acting school was the hairdressing salon where her mother worked, surely the perfect training ground for a future Almodóvar muse. “I was there hiding behind my books pretending to do homework,” says Cruz, munching on snacks poolside in her pleasant Hollywood Hills home a few days before the opening... More >>>