Penelope Cruz, Star of Emanuele Crialese’s ‘L’Immensità,’ Blasts Domestic Violence: ‘There Are Many Women Around the World Trapped in Their Homes’
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent In Italian director Emanuele Crialese’s new drama “L’Immensità,” which is set in 1970s Rome, Penélope Cruz plays a mother of three who, while contending with a violent Italian husband, winds up in a psychiatric institution. “I don’t think my character is crazy at all,” Cruz said. “She is trapped in her family.
Trapped in her home, in her body. In the situation in which she finds herself living. She doesn’t have a plan B. There is no escape,” she added. “She’s not crazy at all.
She’s oppressed in many different ways. And she simply can’t take it anymore. “There are many women around the world trapped in their homes, who pretend in front of their children.
They try to pretend that things aren’t that bad. They do this to survive.” Cruz also pointed out that “I have played so many mothers.
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