WHEN I WAS LITTLE
I WAS DRAFTED FOR
THE OLYMPICS IN
GYMNASTICS
What about his wife? Are you amazed
how strong your friendship with
Penélope Cruz has become over the
years? You’ve known each other for so
long now...
My relationship with Penélope is stronger
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three days ago. I talk to them all the time.Lq# wkh# Ľop/# wkhuh# duh# wzr# lpsruwdqw#
topics: the roads
not taken and the
love that lasts a
whole life. How did
you relate?
There is not a road
that I didn’t take
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was younger! But
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there was a road that I didn’t take that
haunted me for many years, which was
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the Olympics in gymnastics. I was
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didn’t take that road. I really like my life,
so it’s hard to regret not taking a road. On
the contrary, I look at the roads not taken
and go, “Phew! How did I know to go in
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my life, and that brought me this other
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quite good.Is your daughter
still showing her
talents for
directing? In the
past you said that
she used to give
you notes!
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It’s all about her now! I can tell you this:
she can act, she can direct, she can
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her school. I produce and I said, “I wish my
writers could write like this! I wish I could
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script!” She’s amazing as a writer, but
she’s a really talented musician. I don’t
know what’s going to happen. She taught
herself, in two months, to play piano,guitar and ukulele, and now she’s playing
the electric guitar and a little bit of the
trumpet. It’s crazy.Does part of you hope that she’ll
become a lawyer?
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when they become a lawyer? My fear is
that when someone has too many talents,
they end up doing none of them. She can
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not used to push and push and push.
That’s what worries me.You were a big soap star in Mexico. But
who was your biggest inspiration to act?
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he taught me so many wonderful things
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class. One time, one of the people in the
class didn’t come and showed up after
three days with a paper from the doctor.
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come back. If you’re doing theatre, will you
go to the audience and say you were sick?
You were not sick enough. If you were in
the hospital, I’d understand. But two days
in bed... don’t show up with that paper to
my class. This is not a joke. You are eitherDOWNTHEROAD
HayekandBardemstar
togetherforthefirsttime
inTheRoadsNotTaken
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