Penélope Cruz talks to Vogue about her career-best turn in 'Parallel Mothers' and how it felt to win Venice’s best actress prize almost 30 years after her festival debut.
In all but one, Cruz played a mother or mother-to-be, but none were quite as complex as the outwardly composed and inwardly tormented Janis. So, when Almodóvar started working onagain during Madrid’s first lockdown and spoke to Cruz about taking on the part, she was understandably delighted.
The specter of this conflict, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the 1930s, hovers in the background as Janis’s life slowly unravels. She embarks on an affair with Arturo, learns that she’s pregnant and, in a maternity ward, befriends Ana , a teenager unprepared for single motherhood. Their newborns are taken into observation together and accidentally swapped, a fact which Janis discovers months later.
Everything is there for a reason. When Pedro chooses red for my character—there’s a great red Chanel vintage jacket, for example—there are moments when it suddenly feels like a thriller or film noir. You wonder if things are going to go very wrong. Some people have told me that they thought that Janis was going to kill Ana. There’s this sense of claustrophobia. You go onto the set and you immediately feel the energy Pedro wants to transmit.
Yes. The confession scene was the scariest for me, but I needed to go through it for my mental health and Janis’s mental health. I felt strongly that the audience needed to experience that emotional release with this character because everything’s so restrained up to that point. It’s like a ticking time bomb. I told Pedro, “I understand what you want from us. We can’t cry on camera. I have to go down the hall and cry and then come back and do the scene. But, I need to have that release later.
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