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Penelope Cruz has recently posed for Elle.com demonstrating some iconic looks and her signature eyeliner makeup. In her interview with the magazine (by Sloane Crosley) the Spanish actress has shared about her recent character in Ferrari, on her "agelessness" and kids. 

The actress has portrayed a biographical figure more than once. She has embodied her friend Donatella Versace in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. But as the outlet notes, Laura is different. For one thing, she is not an internationally recognized name, so Cruz felt the weight of “giving her a voice for the first time.” For another, she arrives on screen bereaved, already grieving the loss of her son. “Every day is a question of how she makes it through the day. She has this tragedy that she will never recover from, and it’s also what made their marriage break because they both feel they failed to save him.”

In her interview with Elle, Penelope recalled that when filming in Modena she went to the factory and met people who knew Laura. "It’s like they didn’t want to mention how much power she had. You know she slept with the tires? The night before races, she would sleep with the tires so that no one would sabotage them. But people would say no, no, she was a difficult woman. Very sour and unpredictable. Some called her crazy. The word that has been used for every woman in history to justify suppression.”

She also confessed she has a fear of driving. “My sister was run over by a car in front of me when I was eight or nine. I remember she was wearing a red coat. Speaking of red! And for me, time stopped. It’s a great trauma, because I saw her losing consciousness. And I was numb in the hospital, telling people, ‘Oh, my sister just got run over by a car.’” she explains. 

Thanks to films such as Live Flesh and All About My Mother, Cruz has been a mother in the eyes of the world long before she became an actual mother. And now, she says, “at my age, 80 percent of the characters that I play will be about motherhood or divorce or abandonment or characters who didn’t want to have children or couldn’t or who lost children. I’ve played mothers since I was very young.”

Penelope says, ever since she was a little girl, she knew she wanted kids. "But I knew I wanted them older. I wanted to wait until I felt I was ready. I was sure it would be the most important thing I would do in my life.”

Cruz is private about and protective of her children with Javier Bardem, Luna, 10, and Leo, 12 (her production company is called Moonlyon), even more than one would expect for someone in the public eye. She will not so much as confirm or deny if they are creative people like their mother, who studied classical ballet for nine years at Spain’s National Conservatory, or their father, a onetime aspiring painter and descendant of Spanish cinema royalty. “It’s for them to decide if they are going to have a job that is more exposed to the public or not. They can talk about that when they’re ready.”

It should come as no surprise that Cruz’s children do not have social media accounts, but they also “don’t even have phones. It’s so easy to be manipulated, especially if you have a brain that is still forming. And who pays the price? Not us, not our generation, who, maybe at 25, learned how a BlackBerry worked. It’s a cruel experiment on children, on teenagers.”

Much is made in Hollywood, and with her in particular, about age. Or, rather, agelessness. Tedious as the topic may be, there are certain celebrities the media doesn’t seem to allow to age.

“But you know why I don’t worry about that?” she asks, smiling. “Because people have been asking me about age since I was twentysomething. I was more bothered then than now. Now it makes more sense, to discuss turning 50. It’s a huge, beautiful thing, and I really want to celebrate that with all my friends. It means I’m here and I’m healthy, and it’s a reason to have a party. But when I was 25, they would ask me these psychotic questions, things you would not believe, and the only weapon I would have was not to answer. Even now, on the red carpet, when they shout to ‘Turn around,’ I always pretend I didn’t hear what they said.”

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