{"id":646084,"date":"2026-10-06T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646084\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:44:08","slug":"penelope-cruz-awards-chatter-podcast-interview-the-invite-bola-negra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646084\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen\u00e9lope Cruz Awards Chatter Podcast Interview: The Invite, Bola Negra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPen\u00e9lope Cruz, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Awards Chatter<\/a> podcast, which was recorded in front of an audience at 1 Hotel Toronto, is the most celebrated Spanish film actress of all time and one of only a handful of Europeans who have become bona fide A-list stars in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the 34 years since her big screen debut in the Spanish film Jamon, Jamon (opposite Javier Bardem<\/a>, who is now her husband), she has consistently done extraordinary work on both sides of the Atlantic, though she is probably best known for her seven collaborations with the great Spanish auteur Pedro Almod\u00f3var: 1997\u2019s Live Flesh, 1999\u2019s All About My Mother, 2006\u2019s Volver, 2009\u2019s Broken Embraces, 2013\u2019s I\u2019m So Excited!, 2019\u2019s Pain and Glory and 2021\u2019s Parallel Mothers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only person who has won at least one acting award from each of the five most prominent European film academies, she has also starred in two films that won the best international<\/a> feature Oscar (1992\u2019s Belle Epoque and All About My Mother), became the first Spanish actress ever to be nominated for an acting Oscar (for Volver), subsequently received three additional acting Oscar noms (for 2008\u2019s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 2009\u2019s Nine and Parallel Mothers), and became, in 2009, the first \u2014 and, to this day, only \u2014 Spanish actress to win an acting Oscar (for Vicky Cristina Barcelona).<\/p>\n

\n\tBut never has Cruz had a single year quite like 2026, in which she has given three great performances: as a bohemian sexologist Olivia Wilde\u2019s The Invite<\/a> (A24); as a bawdy cabaret singer entertaining troops during the Spanish Civil War in Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo\u2019s La Bola Negra<\/a> (Netflix); and as a book editor enduring marital strife in Florian Zeller\u2019s Bunker<\/a> (Sony Classics).<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring this episode, Cruz reflects on her path from her mother\u2019s hair salon to her hero Almod\u00f3var\u2019s cinematic universe; the challenges of navigating a career across continents and languages; and her incredible 2026. Specifically, she discusses the unusually collaborative way in which Wilde and her Invite writers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack worked with their actors to construct the film\u2019s script; the intense months of work that led up to her big musical number in La Bola Negra, and how her performance of it came in the midst of a health scare \u2014 and as a surprise to the hundreds of extras in the scene; what it was like reuniting on screen with Bardem in Bunker, a film that raises social issues important to both of them; plus more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[99017,72583,171762,321,93,61,1042,60,19476,199969,198333,62494,128650,143347,237826,263958,276],"class_list":["post-646084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-awards-chatter","tag-awards-chatter-podcast","tag-bunker","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-javier-bardem","tag-la-bola-negra","tag-pedro-almodovar","tag-penelope-cruz","tag-the-invite","tag-thrs-original-podcasts","tag-toronto-2026","tag-toronto-international-film-festival-2026","tag-toronto-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}