They’ve also known each other for nearly three decades, Banderas said during a recent Zoom interview from his apartment in New York, where he had flown in from Barcelona to attend the screening of “Official Competition” at the Tribeca Film Festival. Besides turning up in several of Almodóvar’s shimmering screwball-comedy melodramas, both successfully made the leap into the Hollywood mainstream, Cruz with “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and an Oscar-winning turn in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” among other roles, and Banderas with “Philadelphia,” “Desperado,” “The Mask of Zorro” and the “Shrek” saga. (He’s played by Argentine Óscar Martínez of “The Distinguished Citizen” and “Wild Tales.”)ĭespite their infrequent collaborations, Cruz and Banderas have had curiously similar career trajectories. Her unique working methods give rise to more than one tense and awkward moment with Rivero’s co-star of the film-within-the film, Iván Torres, an actor of greater prestige than Félix but far less fame.
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In this Argentine-Spanish co-production - directed by Argentines Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, and filmed on the outskirts of Madrid - Banderas plays Félix Rivero, an international movie star who places himself under the orders of Lola Cuevas (Cruz), an overweening independent director. That is, until “Official Competition,” a black comedy that opens in Los Angeles and New York this weekend. So it’s a bit strange to realize that, apart from a couple of brief encounters and near-encounters in two high-spirited Pedro Almodóvar films, Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz had never been on a movie set together, let alone one in which they shared starring roles. They are among the most internationally recognizable Spanish actors of recent times.