The Spanish actress has confessed on the Ellen DeGeneres program the help she gave her the Mexican interpreter when she arrived in Hollywood
Penélope Cruz has at her feet the difficult and dreamed American film industry. She has started the year by presenting a new film, 355, together with actresses of the stature of Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger or Lupita Nyong'o, among others, and she has other international premieres pending throughout the year. In addition, in Spain and on the other side of the pond, she has shocked critics and the public in her latest work together with the filmmaker and friend of the actress, Pedro Almodóvar, for Parallel Mothers. All the success that she has achieved today is the result of many years of work and the courage to leave everything to try her luck abroad.
This week, in full promotion of the film directed by Simon Kinberg, she attended the program of the presenter Ellen DeGeneres where she spoke loud and clear about her beginnings in Hollywood. The Spanish interpreter assures that it was not easy, but she was more bearable than she could have expected thanks to the help of her now invaluable friend Salma Hayek. The Mexican actress contacted the Spanish before Cruz landed on US soil. When she arrived, Hayek was waiting for her, who immediately invited her to her house to spend a few days until she moved to her new home.
She not only held out her hand, she also warned him that at first it wouldn't be bed of roses. “You are not going to any hotel. You are going to come to my house, because the beginnings are always difficult, and you are going to feel very alone, "said Cruz during the interview. Since then they have been close friends and have always supported each other. «For all this is that we are almost sisters. It was something wonderful, that someone I practically didn't know, told me whether I wanted to or not, was going to take me to her house. I love her deeply. And from day one, she was always like that with me," she says.
Antonio Banderas was one of the first Spanish actors to carve out an international career, but when Penelope Cruz arrived he didn't know anyone and had never been in that place before, so the help of the Mexican woman made his path smoother. Among jokes, the protagonist of Volver assured that when she arrived at Salma Hayek's house she felt afraid, since her house seemed somewhat gloomy to her and she had an owl as a pet, an animal that gave Penélope a lot of respect when she was little. "When I stayed at her house, I even ended up sleeping in her room because she was scared to death."
Another of the curiosities that Ellen and Penelope talked about was the Spanish traditions different from the American ones, such as eating twelve grapes the last twelve seconds of the year. Something that caught the attention of the presenter. They also remembered the first time the actress attended the program in 2005 and they danced some ridiculous choreographies together.
