In a new magazine interview, the 'Zoolander 2' actress offers details of her 'great trauma' from watching her sister 'losing consciousness' following a horrifying car accident.
- Jan 19, 2024
AceShowbiz - Penelope Cruz has opened up about her "great trauma" from her unpleasant experience when she was much younger. In a new interview, the "Zoolander 2" actress also blamed the trauma for her "fear of driving" a car.
The 49-year-old Oscar-winning actress revealed that the trauma came after she witnessed her sister being involved in a car accident. Speaking to Elle, she unveiled, "I have a fear of driving. My sister was run over by a car in front of me when I was eight or nine."
Penelope went on to recall, "I remember she was wearing a red coat. Speaking of red! And for me, time stopped." She explained, "It's a great trauma, because I saw her losing consciousness. And I was numb in the hospital, telling people, 'Oh, my sister just got run over by a car.' "
Fortunately, her sister, whose name Penelope kept under tight wraps during the interview, healed and survived. She further told the magazine that she "would have been hysterical" if she watched the horrifying accident when she was older.
During the chat, Penelope also shared that she had "difficulty modulating the degree of empathy she feels and how much seeps into her personal root system." Noting that there was "back-and-forth dance between fiction and reality," she realized that it "plays into a certain stereotype" of actors.
"I'm lucky to have it, but maybe it makes me feel or suffer things more," the "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" actress continued. "I can feel it; it's like a hypersensitivity in every way-visually, to sound, to people's feelings. It's been one of the main things I deal with in therapy: how to work a balance so I can keep feeling those things without making those feelings my own."
Elsewhere in the same interview, Penelope discussed her role as Laura Ferrari in her movie "Ferrari". "Every day is a question of how she makes it through the day. She has this tragedy that she will never recover from, and it’s also what made their marriage break because they both feel they failed to save him," she said about Laura navigating the loss of her son Dino, whom Laura shares with Italian race car driver Enzo Ferrari depicted by Adam Driver.
