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Penélope Cruz admitted the explanation why she has a “worry of driving” throughout a brand new interview. The 49-year-old actress recalled the second when her sister, Mónica Cruz, was “run over by a automobile” when she was a baby.
“I’ve a worry of driving. My sister was run over by a automobile in entrance of me after I was eight or 9,” Penélope informed Elle in an interview that was revealed on Thursday, January 18. “I bear in mind she was carrying a crimson coat. Talking of crimson! And for me, time stopped. It’s an excellent trauma, as a result of I noticed her dropping consciousness. And I used to be numb within the hospital, telling folks, ‘Oh, my sister simply obtained run over by a automobile.’”
If she watched the accident occur at present, Penélope identified that she probably “would have been hysterical” moderately than “numb.” Now, she confessed, the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides actress struggles with how deeply she empathizes with others’ ache. Though it’s a powerful trait to have, she perceives it as a “back-and-forth dance between fiction and actuality.”
“I’m fortunate to have it, however perhaps it makes me really feel or undergo issues extra,” Penélope famous. “I can really feel it; it’s like a hypersensitivity in each means — visually, to sound, to folks’s emotions. It’s been one of many most important issues I cope with in remedy: how one can work a steadiness so I can preserve feeling these issues with out making these emotions my very own.”
As an actress, Penélope understands that her empathy goes a great distance at any time when she will get into a distinct character.
“Typically, [the characters I play] might be uncomfortable and painful,” the Vanilla Sky star acknowledged. “It’s laborious to allow them to go, however on the finish, I all the time really feel they made me just a little bit extra compassionate than I used to be two months in the past. And with the protection web that you realize this isn’t your actuality. It creates much less judging and extra compassion in each space of my life.”
Apart from her profession, Penélope has been embracing age although she was “bothered” by the idea of getting older.
“However you realize why I don’t fear about that? As a result of folks have been asking me about age since I used to be 20-something. I used to be extra bothered then than now,” she identified. “Now, it makes extra sense, to debate turning 50. It’s an enormous, lovely factor, and I actually need to have a good time that with all my associates. It means I’m right here and I’m wholesome, and it’s a cause to have a celebration. However after I was 25, they might ask me these psychotic questions, issues you wouldn’t imagine, and the one weapon I might have was to not reply.”
After studying to keep away from answering related “psychotic” questions, Penélope revealed another tactic she has as a celerity: “Even now, on the crimson carpet, once they shout to ‘Flip round,’ I all the time faux I didn’t hear what they stated,” she stated.
