In an interview with Penelope Cruz on the program The night D from Dani Rovira, the protagonist of Vicky Cristina Barcelona confessed with laughter what she does before she can get on the plane: “I go in, I go out and I go back in.” This, every time she needs to move.
As part of the promotion of the film Parallel mothers, director Pedro Añmodóvar was also present at the meeting with Dani Rovira and explained to her and the audience that what happens to Penelope it is a direct result of “neurosis. Everything to do with doctors, airplanes.”
Penelope Cruz accept that Pedro Añmodóvar had a reason and it was then that she revealed an anecdote from her childhood with which we learned that she is passionate about medicine. Her grandmother was diabetic and in a mischief without malice, Penelope took her insulin shots to pretend she was a health specialist.
“The dolls had holes in all of them because I played at being a doctor and, the truth is, almost everything I read has to do with medicine. It’s like a hobby,” said the Oscar winner. Penelope Cruz is also very excited for another reason that has to do with her husband, Javier Bardem.