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Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem have been all over the world together filming, so it’s hard to keep track of where they’re filming on any given day. Italy? Maybe. L.A.? Could be! On Friday Julie and Javier continued to film Eat, Pray, Love. It’s good to see they’re sticking it out to the end while hiking around on the set!
Spain’s hottest stars Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who have been dating since 2007, are engaged to be married. The fiercely private pair who quashed rumors that they were expecting a baby are tying the knot instead, says the New York Daily News. Read more »
It’s a long-standing Oscar tradition for the previous year’s Best Supporting Actor winner to present the award to the new Best Supporting Actress.
But don’t expect last year’s Oscar-winner, sexy Spanish star Javier Bardem, to be handing off that Supporting Actress statuette tomorrow. The reason — at least according to E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic — is that he wants to avoid a potentially awkward encounter with his own girlfriend, Penélope Cruz!
Penélope is nominated for her role in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona (which also co-starred Javier), and at a pre-Oscars dinner at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, attended by another Best Supporting Actress nominee Taraji P. Henson, Giuliana told OK!, "I got an e-mail from a source that said Javier is not going to show because he doesn’t want to acknowledge his relationship with Penélope. They’re a couple that likes to stay under the radar and so meeting on the Oscars stage would blow their cover. Would Javier kiss Penelope if she won? Would they hug? Would they shake hands? He’s worried it could be an awkward scene."
Of course if the award goes to Taraji or any of the other nominees — Amy Adams, Viola Davis or Marisa Tomei — it will have been all for nothing.
The IFP already announced earlier this year that Penélope Cruz would be receiving a tribute at this year’s Gotham Independent Film Awards, and now the rest of the nominees have been announced.
Topping the list with four noms is little-known Ballast, while Rachel Getting Married, Synecdoche, New York and Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona have all received two nominations.
Penélope and her Vicky Cristina Barcelona castmates, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson will be going up against Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married – both are nominated for Best Ensemble Performance.
Hopefully Michelle Williams will be crossing her fingers for new beau Spike Jonze, their film Synecdoche, New York, which he produced, is up for both Best Feature and Best Ensemble Performance.
The couple that vacations together stays together! Spanish hotties Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are apparently still going strong after a recent week-long trip to the super-exclusive Cayo Espanto, a private island resort off the coast of Belize (Tiger Woods is another famous guest.)
The Vicky Cristina Barcelona co-stars kept to themselves, went scuba-diving, had a picnic for two on the beach and used a helicopter to get to and from their excursions.
"They enjoyed their privacy," a source tells OK!.
Although the sizzling twosome have never confirmed their romance, they’ve been linked since last year. They had tongues wagging even more when they were spotted getting close on a vacation in the Maldives in October. Since then they’ve been snapped being romantic everywhere from NYC to Nice, cuddling, holding hands and acting like, well, a couple.
While all questions related to their romance were off-limits during press appearances for Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, their offscreen performance as a couple in love seems to be mirroring the white-hot chemistry they share onscreen.
Muy caliente!
Penelope Cruz glitzes into the special screening of Vicky Cristina Barcelona held at Cinema 2 in NYC. The 34-year-old stunner is glamorous at every turn, and speaks with a thick accent. She appears in the Woody Allen dramedy about three women – Penelope, Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall – who fall in love with the same man during a vacation in Spain.
“She’s somebody who is very unstable,” Penelope says of her character. “She’s damaged. She wants to create something.”
What does she draw on from her own life when playing such a complicated role?
“You go through verses when you are preparing for your character and during interviews people ask you how you prepared for your character,” she says. “For me, I have my own system and it works every time in every movie. I think you always feel a little bit pretentious when you hear that question.”
She gets flustered when asked if she’s complicated.
Javier Bardem returns to the familiar by acting with Penelope. “Everybody changes I guess. I haven’t acted with her in fifteen years!”
Patricia Clarkson calls Woody “a tremendous talent.”
Here is designer Tara Subkoff to dish on the recent kiss between Danity Kane’s Aubrey O’Day and Lydia Hearst caught on vid.
She tells me it will appear in an ad for her Bebe line, Tara Subkoff for Bebe, which will be in stores September 1. She says the clothes range from “sexy” to “forgiving” and are perfect for everyone from high schoolers to grandmothers.
Tara says Aubrey is not part of the campaign – just Lydia.
“I think they did that to get more paparazzi. I wanted to get the point of view of their point of view.”
Why is Lyd perfect for the line?
“She really looks like the Marlena Dietrich of her time. She’s gorgeous, she’s iconic.”
And, what does she think of Aubrey?
“No comment, I don’t know her but I’m interested to find out.”
The lights dim as Carla Gugino, Zoe Kravitz, Geogina Chapman and Harvey Weinstein and stylist Phillip Bloch enter the theater. On with the show!
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is in theaters Friday.
A lot of filmakers would be happy for audiences to think their latest movie would be full of sizzling sex scenes involving two of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.
But director Woody Allen has flatly denied the rumors that his new movie features wild lesbian trysts between Scarlett Johansson, 23, and Penelope Cruz, 34.
After Vicky Cristina Barcelona premiered in Cannes in May, journalists got in a froth about its "steamy" lesbian scenes between the leading ladies and their threesome with Javier Bardem, 39.
However, the three-time Oscar winning director, 72, told British magazine Empire that, while the actors do share love scenes in the film, the press have blown them way out of proportion.
"There’s no truth comparable to anything you’ve read. There’s the barest smidgeon of sex in it," he said of his 43rd movie, which is set for US release on September 5.
"There are sex scenes between all the characters in the movie: between the men and the women, and the women and the women. That is accurate, but I’d say there’s probably not even 20 seconds of sex in the whole picture."
Forget the Tribeca Film Festival! Javier Bardem is all about the Sahara International Film Festival.
The Oscar winner jetted off to southwestern Algeria near the border with the Western Sahara to partake in the cinema gala’s fifth installment Thursday and took time out of his schedule to visit the Dakhla refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria. There, the 39-year-old was welcomed with open arms by numerous exiled Sahrawi families.
The Saharawis fled their native Western Sahara more than 30 years ago to escape Moroccan and Mauritanian oppression.
(photo: Zuma)
Javier arrived with his brother, Carlos, for the festival, which aims to promote and raise awareness of the Sahrawi refugee population culture. The actor, an avid supporter of the cause, visited with his bro last year as well.
During his time there, Javier has taken in the sights of the desert and immersed himself within the Sahrawi culture, donning a turban and riding camels.
