Two years ago, Spanish actress Penélope Cruz admitted that she felt “part of a minority” by wanting to protect her children from social networks. Now that her children are 10 and 12, Cruz reiterates her position and shares that her children still “don't even have phones.”
“It's very easy to be manipulated, especially if you have a brain that's still forming,” he told Elle magazine in its February 2024 issue. “And who pays the price? Not us, not our generation, which, maybe “When he was 25 years old, he learned how a BlackBerry worked. It's a cruel experiment with children, with teenagers.”
Cruz shares her son Leo, 12, and daughter Luna, 10, with fellow actor Javier Bardem.
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Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem married in 2010. They share a son and a daughter. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
In 2021, the Oscar-winning actress shared similar sentiments with CBS Sunday Morning. “I am very hard on technology, for example with my children, sometimes we can watch movies, or some cartoons. How can I not let them watch movies if they have been incredible moments of [my] happiness since I was a child? But no phones until they are much older and no social media until at least 16 years old. I really see that that protects mental health. But I seem like part of a minority,” she suggested.
“I have a very strange relationship with social media,” he continued. “Where I use very little and very carefully. There is something that does not make sense and it is especially affecting the younger generations. I feel very bad for those who are now teenagers. It is almost [as] if the world was doing some kind of experiment on them. “Oh, let's see what happens if you expose a 12-year-old to that much technology.” “
Penélope Cruz fiercely protects her children's identities and prefers not to publish them or talk in depth about their personalities. (Elle Magazine)
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Cruz, fiercely protective of her children, will not expand her interests. In her interview with Elle, Cruz was reluctant to say whether her children would follow in the creative footsteps of her successful parents. “It's up to them to decide if they're going to have more publicly exposed work or not. They can talk about it when they're ready,” she told the outlet.
Cruz, 39, loves motherhood; she recognizes the importance of the role. “Since I was a child, I knew I wanted to have children. But I also knew I wanted them older. I wanted to wait until I felt like I was ready. I was sure it would be the most important thing I would do in my life,” explained the actress.
She welcomed her first child at age 36 and her second at age 39.
Penélope Cruz played maternal characters in movies long before she became a mother herself. (Elle Magazine)
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Cruz has often been cast as maternal characters. In the upcoming biopic “Ferrari,” she plays heartbroken mother Laura Ferarri.
“At my age, 80 percent of the characters I play will be about motherhood or divorce or abandonment or characters who didn't want to have children or couldn't or who lost children. I've played mothers since I was very little,” she said. .
In the upcoming film “Ferrari,” Penelope Cruz plays a heartbroken mother. (Elle Magazine)
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Many of her films have been with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, who she believes saw her caring side before she had children of her own to raise.
“Pedro always saw me as a mother,” she explained. “We've known each other since he was 17. He watched me talk to strangers just to see his babies. He always saw that strong, inevitable instinct in me, and I saw him see it.”
