MADRID: Oscar-winning Spanish actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem will star in a new film set in Spain by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, Cruz said in an interview published Sunday.
Farhadi, who won the foreign-language Oscar in 2012 for “A Separation” about a middle-class couple’s divorce, is currently finishing the original screenplay for the movie, she told Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia.
“The idea is to film in Spain, we still don’t know where. It is an intense drama which is a gift for actors. And it is a luxury to work for the director of ‘A Separation’, which is wonderful,” the 42-year-old actress said.
Shooting is expected to begin next year.
Cruz and Bardem, who were married in the Bahamas in 2010, are currently working on “Escobar,” a movie about Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Bardem plays Escobar and Cruz plays his lover, journalist Virginia Vallejo, in their first film together since the 2008 Woody Allen romantic comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
Cruz said it was “incredible” that the couple have the chance to work together once again in Farhadi’s new film.
“No one planned it. And we are not going to work together in everything, but if things come up (for both of us) and they make sense, why not?”
Cruz won a supporting-actress Oscar for her role in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Bardem, 47, won a supporting-actor Oscar for the 2007 crime thriller “No Country for Old Men.”
The couple first met while filming “Jamon, Jamon” in 1992, one of Cruz’s first films.
Penelope Cruz, husband to star in Farhadi’s next
Penelope Cruz, husband to star in Farhadi’s next
Harry Styles announces first album in 4 years, ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally’
- It follows the critically acclaimed synth pop “Harry’s House,” which earned the former One Direction star album of the year at the 2023 Grammy Awards
- “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” will contain 12 tracks and is executive produced by Kid Harpoon
NEW YORK: In this world, it’s just him: Harry Styles has announced that his long-awaited, fourth studio album will arrive this spring.
Titled “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” and out March 6, the album is Styles’ first full-length project in four years. It follows the 2022, critically acclaimed synth pop record “Harry’s House,” which earned the former One Direction star the top prize of album of the year at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
In a review, The Associated Press celebrated “Harry’s House” for showcasing “a breadth of style that matches the album’s emotional range.”
On Instagram, Styles’ shared the cover artwork for “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” which features the 31-year-old artist in a T-shirt and jeans at night, standing underneath a shimmering disco ball hung outside.
According to a press release, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” will contain 12 tracks and is executive produced by Kid Harpoon. The British songwriter and producer has been a close collaborator of Styles’ since the beginning of his solo career, working on all of his albums since the singer’s 2017 self-titled debut.
“Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” is now available for preorder.
It is also Styles’ first project since his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne died in 2024 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
