Meryl Streep and Penélope Cruz on Jan. 23, 2010.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/WireimagePenélope Cruzis a huge admirer ofMeryl Streep.At a recent BAFTA Life In Pictures event in London honoring Cruz, 49, the actor spoke to her three decades of experience in the film industry and cited Streep, 74, when asked whom she’s most eager to collaborate with for the first time, according toDeadline.“Meryl Streep. I’m always begging my agents to take me to her set, just to bring her coffee or anything,” Cruz joked.“Every time I see her, I run to hug her. And she’s so patient because every time I act like this is the first time I do it," she added, noting that she “could not believe it” when Streep named her in a speech after Streepreceived an Icon Award at the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Galain Los Angeles. The award is meant to “[celebrate] an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact,” per an Academy press release.“And I watched [Streep’s speech] twenty times to make sure,” Cruz told a London audience on Monday. “It was like she knows that I exist, you know? She is my number one number one hero and would love to work with her.”Meryl Streep and Penélope Cruz on Jan. 23, 2010.Dimitrios Kambouris/WireimageWhile Cruz and Streep have yet to make a film together, they did once co-star in a magazine shoot for anti-AIDS charity (RED) that Cruz dubbed “the most interesting love scene I’ve ever done” back in 2012, according toVanity Fair.“I kiss her whenever I see her! She must think I’m crazy,” Cruz said of Streep at the time.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Penélope Cruz and Meryl Streep on Jan. 25, 2009.Dimitrios Kambouris/WireimageStreep appeared at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for the gala ceremony Sunday withher four childrenwith exDon Gummer: son Henry Wolfe Gummer, 44, plus daughtersMamie Gummer, 40,Grace Gummer, 37, andLouisa Jacobson, 32. Henry’s wife Tamryn Gummer and Grace’s husbandMark Ronsonalso accompanied the group.Penélope Cruz and Meryl Streep on Feb. 22, 2009.Lester Cohen/WireImageCruz costars withAdam Driver,Shailene WoodleyandPatrick Dempseyin the upcoming racing biopicFerrari, centered around Ferrari automobile founder Enzo Ferrari in 1957. Cruz plays Ferrari’s wife Laura, whom she noted at the BAFTA event was one of the Ferrari company’s first investors, per Deadline.“She was a woman that had lost a child out of an illness and that had also broken the relationship, and I saw that there was no compassion for her,” she said of the role, as the outlet reported. “Probably because she was involved in the business and that was not welcome. It was in those years very difficult for a woman to have a voice in a company like that…But I’m sorry, I feel it’s still today the case in so many places around the world.“Ferrariis in theaters Dec. 25.
Meryl Streep and Penélope Cruz on Jan. 23, 2010.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Wireimage
Dimitrios Kambouris/Wireimage
Penélope Cruzis a huge admirer ofMeryl Streep.At a recent BAFTA Life In Pictures event in London honoring Cruz, 49, the actor spoke to her three decades of experience in the film industry and cited Streep, 74, when asked whom she’s most eager to collaborate with for the first time, according toDeadline.“Meryl Streep. I’m always begging my agents to take me to her set, just to bring her coffee or anything,” Cruz joked.“Every time I see her, I run to hug her. And she’s so patient because every time I act like this is the first time I do it,” she added, noting that she “could not believe it” when Streep named her in a speech after Streepreceived an Icon Award at the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Galain Los Angeles. The award is meant to “[celebrate] an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact,” per an Academy press release.“And I watched [Streep’s speech] twenty times to make sure,” Cruz told a London audience on Monday. “It was like she knows that I exist, you know? She is my number one number one hero and would love to work with her.”Meryl Streep and Penélope Cruz on Jan. 23, 2010.Dimitrios Kambouris/WireimageWhile Cruz and Streep have yet to make a film together, they did once co-star in a magazine shoot for anti-AIDS charity (RED) that Cruz dubbed “the most interesting love scene I’ve ever done” back in 2012, according toVanity Fair.“I kiss her whenever I see her! She must think I’m crazy,” Cruz said of Streep at the time.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Penélope Cruz and Meryl Streep on Jan. 25, 2009.Dimitrios Kambouris/WireimageStreep appeared at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for the gala ceremony Sunday withher four childrenwith exDon Gummer: son Henry Wolfe Gummer, 44, plus daughtersMamie Gummer, 40,Grace Gummer, 37, andLouisa Jacobson, 32. Henry’s wife Tamryn Gummer and Grace’s husbandMark Ronsonalso accompanied the group.Penélope Cruz and Meryl Streep on Feb. 22, 2009.Lester Cohen/WireImageCruz costars withAdam Driver,Shailene WoodleyandPatrick Dempseyin the upcoming racing biopicFerrari, centered around Ferrari automobile founder Enzo Ferrari in 1957. Cruz plays Ferrari’s wife Laura, whom she noted at the BAFTA event was one of the Ferrari company’s first investors, per Deadline.“She was a woman that had lost a child out of an illness and that had also broken the relationship, and I saw that there was no compassion for her,” she said of the role, as the outlet reported. “Probably because she was involved in the business and that was not welcome. It was in those years very difficult for a woman to have a voice in a company like that…But I’m sorry, I feel it’s still today the case in so many places around the world.“Ferrariis in theaters Dec. 25.
Penélope Cruzis a huge admirer ofMeryl Streep.
At a recent BAFTA Life In Pictures event in London honoring Cruz, 49, the actor spoke to her three decades of experience in the film industry and cited Streep, 74, when asked whom she’s most eager to collaborate with for the first time, according toDeadline.
“Meryl Streep. I’m always begging my agents to take me to her set, just to bring her coffee or anything,” Cruz joked.
“Every time I see her, I run to hug her. And she’s so patient because every time I act like this is the first time I do it,” she added, noting that she “could not believe it” when Streep named her in a speech after Streepreceived an Icon Award at the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Galain Los Angeles. The award is meant to “[celebrate] an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact,” per an Academy press release.
“And I watched [Streep’s speech] twenty times to make sure,” Cruz told a London audience on Monday. “It was like she knows that I exist, you know? She is my number one number one hero and would love to work with her.”
Meryl Streep and Penélope Cruz on Jan. 23, 2010.Dimitrios Kambouris/Wireimage
While Cruz and Streep have yet to make a film together, they did once co-star in a magazine shoot for anti-AIDS charity (RED) that Cruz dubbed “the most interesting love scene I’ve ever done” back in 2012, according toVanity Fair.
“I kiss her whenever I see her! She must think I’m crazy,” Cruz said of Streep at the time.
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Penélope Cruz and Meryl Streep on Jan. 25, 2009.Dimitrios Kambouris/Wireimage
Streep appeared at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for the gala ceremony Sunday withher four childrenwith exDon Gummer: son Henry Wolfe Gummer, 44, plus daughtersMamie Gummer, 40,Grace Gummer, 37, andLouisa Jacobson, 32. Henry’s wife Tamryn Gummer and Grace’s husbandMark Ronsonalso accompanied the group.
Penélope Cruz and Meryl Streep on Feb. 22, 2009.Lester Cohen/WireImage
Lester Cohen/WireImage
Cruz costars withAdam Driver,Shailene WoodleyandPatrick Dempseyin the upcoming racing biopicFerrari, centered around Ferrari automobile founder Enzo Ferrari in 1957. Cruz plays Ferrari’s wife Laura, whom she noted at the BAFTA event was one of the Ferrari company’s first investors, per Deadline.
“She was a woman that had lost a child out of an illness and that had also broken the relationship, and I saw that there was no compassion for her,” she said of the role, as the outlet reported. “Probably because she was involved in the business and that was not welcome. It was in those years very difficult for a woman to have a voice in a company like that…But I’m sorry, I feel it’s still today the case in so many places around the world.”
Ferrariis in theaters Dec. 25.
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