Penelope Cruz is going to be an actress I'm going to enjoy watching over the next 12 months. We've spoken before about the romantic comedy with
Woody Allen that she is
shooting this Spring in Barcelona and the truth is.... no-one shoots hot actresses' better than Woody Allen, except maybe
Bernando Bertolucci or
Brian De Palma. Now, the news from
Production Weekly is that she is set to star alongside
Ben Kingsley for Spanish director
Isabel Coixet's movie
Elegy, based on a
Phillip Roth novel titled
The Dying Animal. The fictional book is about a literature professor and well renowned radio host David Kepesh (Kingsley) who well into his 60's, decides to leave his wife and child and become sexually active. A meeting with a young student (Cruz) sends him off the rails as he becomes sexually possessive and jealous. Cruz's character in the novel is 22 and Cruz herself is 32, so the chances are they may change the character to be more 25 or something. I think I would struggle to buy Cruz as a fresh faced student. This sounds really good and I can't help but feel after watching
Match Point... Woody Allen
would have been perfect for this! Nice to see Cruz take on some interesting projects too, after he career went a little wayward after
Vanilla Sky. Principal shooting is set to begin on 24th April in Vancouver and to your right their is a picture of the books front cover. Would make a great poster with Cruz guys, and would certainly get people in theatres!! source -
production weekly,
cinematical