Longtime friends but infrequent co-stars, the Spanish screen icons discuss their most intimate collaboration yet in the satire 'Official Competition.'
Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas reunite for a meta movie about the various vanities of filmmaking.Despite their infrequent collaborations, Cruz and Banderas have had curiously similar career trajectories.
Yet, speaking by phone from Madrid, Cruz said that after teaming up with Banderas on “Official Competition” she felt they’d been colleagues forever. Banderas relished the challenge, and the ironic analogs, of portraying Félix, an internationally famous and prolific Spanish actor who has triumphed in Hollywood, despite his arrogant and impulsive temperament.
“She is a very careful egomaniac, and quite insufferable,” she summarized. “However, when playing her, I couldn’t judge her but had to defend the reality of her,” although if she met someone like that in reality, “I would run away.” Banderas’ route to Hollywood blockbusters like “Shrek” passed through the School of Dramatic Art in Málaga, Spain, in his hometown, where he spent four years before moving to Madrid and joining the ranks of professional theater.
“The empirical world is the one that has really made me, that is, the world of experience,” he continued. “At a certain point, there were people who thought that I was only Zorro, that I only made adventure films and that I simply had the necessary charisma to do so. But later on, they were very surprised to see me in ‘Pain and Glory,’” the 2019 film that landed him an Oscar nomination.
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