The actress thanked her parents, husband, siblings, son, and Johnny Depp.
Penelope Cruz has become the first Spanish actress to ever receive a star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame.
The Oscar winner called the unveiling of her star “a very special day that I will always remember.”
She continued, "Every time I look at that star, I will see the names of all the people that have helped me make many of my dreams a reality,” reports Reuters.
There was a large crowd at the unveiling, including her husband, Javier Bardem, and her friend and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides costar, Johnny Depp.
Cruz, 36, thanked Bardem, her parents, her siblings and her newborn son, "for making me happy every day."
She also thanked Depp, saying, "I came to Los Angeles the first time in 1994, I spoke no English, I only knew how to say two things, two sentences. One was 'How are you?' the other one was 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.' In the last ten years I've worked with him twice, and that has improved my English. So now I know how to say, 'I want to work with Johnny Depp again.'"
She added, “Thank you Johnny for your friendship, your friendship, your talent, you are such an inspiration to so many of us, always."
Hollywood's 'gore guys' graduate to 'Insidious'
Since Halloween weekend in 2004, James Wan and Leigh Whannell have gleefully haunted moviegoers — and scared up impressive box-office numbers — beginning with the original Saw.So what really gets their gooseflesh going? Watching an audience's reaction at one of their screenings.
"When I know a scene is coming up that's a big scare, my heart starts to beat really fast," Whannell says. "I start to get really nervous. It's pretty nuts."
It's only fair. The first film of the popular Saw franchise — which Wan directed, Whannell wrote and co-starred in, and the two longtime Australian friends dreamed up as a business card of sorts — gave horror-loving audiences nightmares and spawned several sequels as it tweaked the usual slasher fare. Extra chapters were almost a given when the original, which tossed victims into the psychopathic traps of the serial killer Jigsaw, grossed more than $55 million on a budget of $1 million.
The writer/director duo returned in 2007 with the puppet-filled creepfest Dead Silence, and now they've reteamed again, deconstructing the haunted-house subgenre with the new Insidious. The film teams them with producer Oren Peli, who directed the original Paranormal Activity.
Like a modern-day Poltergeist, Insidious starts out with the usual ghost-story tropes: Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have just moved into a nice big house with their three children. Doors start creaking and items shift themselves around at the same time their little boy Dalton falls into a mysterious coma.
When things get bad, the family hightails it to another neighborhood, only to find their new house is even more haunted than the last one. It turns out that the buildings aren't the problem — their son is.
"Once you realize it's not the house that's haunted, it's something that most parents can relate to," Wan says. "They can very easily get away from their troubles, let's put it that way, but that would mean abandoning a particular family member, which is not the thing that one would do."
Unlike Saw, where people were tortured with such insanity as reverse bear traps on their heads, there's no blood or gore in Insidious. The scares in this one are more classic, Wan says. "Shocking is easy to do — making something scary is very hard. Making something creepy is even harder."
Scaring people is a very fine art, Whannell says. "You've got to give the audience what they want without giving them what they expect. Modern audiences, especially teenage audiences today, are so media-savvy and well-trained when it comes to the rhythms of films and television that they can predict when everything's coming up. It's hard-wired into their DNA."
Insidious also acts as the pair's way of breaking out of the stereotype that they're Hollywood's "Gore Guys."
"The way to change that perception is to make something that's not like that," Whannell says. "If it does well, all of a sudden, we'll be the Ghost Guys or the Haunted House Guys. And then hopefully we'll go out and do a romantic comedy musical set on Mars, and then we'll be the Romantic Comedy Musical Set on Mars Guys.
"We're hoping Insidious changes people's minds and we get a bunch of phone calls the Monday after it comes out saying, 'I always knew you guys could do stuff without blood!' "
Whannell and Wan, both 34, have known each other since they were teens just starting film school, so they banter accordingly — such as when Whannell quips that he invaded Wan's dreams a la Inception so he'd be cast as Specs, a ghost-busting comic-relief character:
"The next day he woke up and he was like, 'You know what, Leigh is going to play a role in Insidious.' "
"It's pretty brilliant," Wan says. "He made me think it was my concept. What a genius."
The two met as first-year students at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where they bonded not just over movies but also comics, computer games and pop culture.
"James introduced me to a lot of stuff. I'd come straight from the suburbs of Melbourne, and I thought I was deep because I was into Reservoir Dogs," Whannell says, laughing. "Then I get to film school and it's like, 'Let me show you this 25-minute Yoko Ono masterwork,' and it's a shot of a fly on the wall."
When they graduated, all they talked about was movies and making their own films. Now that they've reached that goal, and created home lives for themselves in Los Angeles, their friendship has grown beyond cinema.
"We talk about movies all the time," Wan says, "but we talk about food as well. We talk about the political climate on the world stage. We talk about real estate. We talk about holidays. We talk about the people in our lives.
"All that, believe it or not, is a sign of growing up."
However, they're still "two delightfully demented individuals," says Steve Barton, founder and editor in chief of the horror site DreadCentral.com. "When they put their minds to it, they end up creating not just a regular one-off movie but a world for you to explore.
"They don't like being bored and they don't like movies like they've already done."
Maybe it's their newfound worldliness, or too many heart-pounding moments during screenings, but Wan and Whannell have plans to take a break from the horror genre and venture into science fiction with at least a few of their favorite things. Reverse bear traps optional.
"Probably the day we make a romantic comedy, somehow there'll be creepy dolls and things in there," Whannell says. "Maybe it'll be a girl and her puppet."
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http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/penelope-cruz-gets-hollywood-star-04-02-2011
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2011-04-02-insidous-filmmakers_N.htm
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