Untitled Penélope Cruz Documentary Project

During a masterclass at the Nouvelles Vagues Festival in Biarritz, France, Penélope Cruz revealed that she will soon make her directorial debut with a mystery documentary feature.

“I was telling my friend Pedro Almodóvar that ‘I really want to do this. Do you think I should?’ And he always told me, ‘Don’t wait! You should do it. If you have this feeling, you have to do it,＇” said Cruz, who was dressed in a glamorous Chanel dress, a partner of Nouvelles Vagues.

“I’ve been waiting for the right time, but for now I am producing and directing a documentary that is really my passion project and it will take me like a total of two more years,” said Cruz, who pointed out she had started developing it a year ago. “This is one of the things that we are developing and that I am directing, and it’s like my No. 1 thing that I have to do.”

She went on to say the “subject is very important” to her, but wouldn’t give further details about the documentary besides the fact that it “requires patience, time and a lot of locations.”

“Unfortunately I cannot share it yet, but once I will be able to I will be like talking non-stop about it because I have a lot to say about it,” she said.

Cruz said the project took years to get made. It was a “financial puzzle,” she said, partly due to the pandemic which put pre-production on hold for two years. Cruz brought the project to Morena Films, with whom she had worked on Julio Medem’s “Ma Ma,” which she had also produced.