“I didn’t know Penélope from a hole
in the wall,” Allen said of the
star of
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Cannes 2008). “But when she came into
my screening room, I was stunned:
She was even more beautiful than in
the movies. I wrote the part for
her, and I never saw anyone else.”
Read W's August 2008 profile of Penélope Cruz here.