Penelope Cruz on Vanity Fair November 2009

35-year-old actress Penelope Cruz poses for cover which was photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for November 2009 issue of Vanity Fair.

She gives interview for magazine. She talks:

About who is a better kisser — Vicky Cristina Barcelona’s Scarlett Johansson or Head in the Clouds’ Charlize Theron:

No matter how I answer that I will be in trouble Both were pretty beautiful partners.”

About having anxiety, despite coming off so fearless on-screen:

I’ve always been a worrier. Since I was a little girl I’ve always felt that if I had a moment of peace I’d wonder: Are you sure you can afford to feel like this?”

About growing up in Alcobendas, Spain and hanging out at a salon:

It was my first acting school. I would pretend to be doing my homework, but I was really observing the women. I found their behavior mesmerizing – what they were hiding, how they left feeling a little different after they’d been helped to become a little more like whom they wanted to look like. They treated the place a little bit like a psychologist’s office. They would share all their secrets.”

About why ‘Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!’ influenced her to become an actress:

That was the day I decided to be an actress. I fell in love. I’d found what I wanted to do. I really didn’t want to have to be in an office. I was a good student, but not happy. I thought, I have nobody in my family and no friends who can make a living out of anything related to an artistic profession, but I want to try. I decided to look for an agent.”

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