Penelope Cruz is Poised for Breakout with Two New Films

Penelope Cruz is Poised for Breakout with Two New Films
(NSI News Source Info) August 13, 2008: Hot on the heels of her first best-actress Oscar nomination, Spain's Penelope Cruz is basking in some very sweet reviews for playing a stormy artist in Woody Allen's dramedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and a composed college student involved with her ambivalent professor in the drama "Elegy."
And yet, she can't sit through a single interview or stroll down a red carpet without the same question cropping up: What was it like kissing her "Vicky Cristina" co-star Scarlett Johansson?
"Always," Cruz says with a sigh, raising her eyebrows, of inquiries about a quick yet potent scene that's pivotal to the film. "Maybe if I was a journalist I would ask about it, too. But Scarlett and I have run out of things to say about it. We get asked 50 times a day."
Right now, Cruz, 34, lacks the energy to whip up any pithy fabrications about their on-screen smooch in Allen's tale of two New Yorkers (Johansson and Rebecca Hall) who spend a summer in Spain and become entangled with a local painter (real-life boyfriend Javier Bardem) and his unstable ex-wife (Cruz).