Antonio Ferme editorPenélope Cruz first tapped into acting when she was a child playing with her friends.“I would pretend I was someone else.
A different character. Sometimes from a movie I have seen, sometimes from my own imagination.” Cruz said on Tuesday night when she was honored in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art’s annual Film Benefit gala. “I was convinced I was acting, my friends were convinced I was crazy.”Cruz grew up in a suburb of Madrid, where she discovered her love for cinema while watching films on her father’s Betamax machine.“I fell in love with Audrey [Hepburn] in ‘Love in the Afternoon,’ I cried as Meryl had to make the toughest decision, I was terrified of ‘Jaws,’ I cried with Shirley MacLaine and Debra.
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