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France Honors Actress Penelope Cruz!!!!
PARIS - Penelope Cruz was
honored Wednesday by France's culture minister who
called her a "great European actress"
and proclaimed her a knight in the Order of Arts
and Letters.
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres praised in particular
her international movie career which includes roles
in French, English, Italian and her native Spanish.
"It's France's role to be the ardent defender
of cultural diversity and to recognize those who
extend, with their talent, the culture of their
country," said the minister. "I'm happy
to have honored this great European actress."
Cruz, in Paris to promote her new movie, "Bandidas,"
received the minister's accolades with blushing
modesty.
"I'm not sure that I deserve it, but I will
do my best so that you won't regret it," Cruz
said during the ceremony at the Culture Ministry.
The minister cited "Bandidas" as an example
of Cruz' ability to work with a diverse cast of
international talent. The movie, a Western about
two female outlaws set in 19th century Mexico, was
written and produced by French filmmaker
Luc Besson.
The film co-stars Salma Hayek, who was present at
the ceremony and gave Cruz a congratulatory hug.
Cruz rocketed to international stardom with the
success of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's Oscar-winning
"All About My Mother." Hollywood came
courting, giving her starring roles in "Blow,"
"All the Pretty Horses," "Vanilla
Sky" and "Sahara."
"Volver," her most recent collaboration
with Almodovar, is expected in movie theaters later
this year.
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