Penlope Cruz stepped out in Madrid, Spain, last night. The actress, who is seven months pregnant, looked stylish in a quilted leather jacket with jeans and wedge sneakers. Penlope is in her hometown after vacationing in Barbados with Javier Bardem and their son, Leo, last month. Penlope wore a bikini that showed off her baby bump on the trip, which came shortly after the news broke that she and Javier are expecting their second child . Penlope and Javier will welcome the baby this Summer, before their joint project The Counselor arrives in theaters in the Fall. That movie saw the married couple working with director Ridley Scott, but it isn't the first time Penelope and Javier made a picture together. In 1992, Penlope and Javier first met on the set of the film Jamon, Jamon . That film was Penlope's big break, and both she and Javier received the sad news over the weekend that its director, Juan Jose Bigas Luna , has passed away after a battle with cancer. Javier made a swee...

08 April 2013 Penelope Cruz and her husband Javier Bardem are among the stars who have paid tribute to Spanish filmmaker Bigas Luna following his death on Saturday (06Apr13). Picture: Penelope Cruz at the 2013 Campari Calendar unveiling cocktail party at Campari Headquarters. Milan, Italy - 13.11.12 ***Not Available for Publication in Italy, Available for... The director lost his battle with cancer at the age of 67, and now Cruz, who landed her big break alongside Bardem in Luna's 1992 movie Jamon Jamon, has spoken out to express her sadness. Recalling the time she auditioned for a part in Luna's The Ages of Lulu, when she was just 14, she tells the Associated Press, " I n walked a man with a rascal's face: Bigas Luna. The first thing he asked me was my age. I said I was 17 and he, always very gently and without making me feel too bad, laughed in my face and said: 'Well, you won't make this movie, but I 'll call for another when you're older.'...

Josep Joan Bigas Luna is credited with discovering Penelope Cruz. MADRID Spaniard Josep Joan Bigas Luna was lauded as a brilliant and "truly special" filmmaker a day after his death, with some of the highest praise coming from actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, two stars whose film careers he launched. Bigas Luna, 67, died Saturday in northeast Spain after a long battle with cancer. The filmmaker was regarded as having had an excellent eye for spotting talent and a knack for stimulating on-screen chemistry between actors. His 1992 film "Jamon, Jamon" received unanimous praise as "a classic" in the Spanish press on Sunday, The director discovered Cruz and Bardem, who married in 2010, as well as a giving early boosts to a host of other now well-known film muses, including Leonor Watling, Angela Molina, Francesca Neri and Valeria Marini. Many...

Juan Jos Bigas Luna, the highly regarded Spanish director who discovered Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, has died at the age of 67. The couple, now married and expecting a baby, shot to world fame after he cast them in the 1992 film Jamn, Jamn . The somewhat surrealistic comedy centered on a beautiful young girl played by Cruz, and it featured an erotic theme that blended the appetites of food and sex. The translation of his iconic title into English is Ham, Ham, described as a childs language game. At one point, the rivals for the Penelope Cruz characters affections actually beat each other with ham hocks a surrealistic touch indeed. Bigas Luna also won the 1992 Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for the film. He returned to that film festival almost 15 years later, as a member of the jury. He was born in Barcelona in 1946 and directed his first film, Tatuaje (Tatoo), in 1976. In theory, he retired to become a painter a decade later, but he couldnt stay away from film, and h...

AP/ Bigas Luna Spanish film director Bigas Luna dies, aged 67 April 6, 2013, 10:52 AM EST MADRID (AP) Spanish film director Josep Joan Bigas Luna, who discovered actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and whose 1992 movie "Jamon, Jamon" launched their careers, has died in northeast Spain, aged 67. News agency Europa Press and Spanish state broadcaster RTVE, citing members of the director's family, said Bigas Luna died early Saturday at his home in Riera de Gaia after a long battle with cancer. Bigas Luna was born in Barcelona on March 19, 1946, and became one of Spain's most influential filmmakers. He shot his first work, "Tatuaje" ("Tattoo") in 1976, but it was the explosively erotic and humorous "Jamon, Jamon" that earned him the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Jury Award at the San Sebastian film festival.

Spanish film director Bigas Lunadied aged 67 after a long struggle with cancer on April 6, 2013. (AFP/Javier Soriano) MADRID: Jose Juan Bigas Luna, a Spanish director and screenwriter who gave Penelope Cruz her first big screen break, has died aged 67 after a long struggle with cancer, Spanish media reported Saturday. Bigas Luna, as he was simply known, directed more than a dozen films over his 35-year career. Perhaps his best-known for international audiences was "Jamon Jamon" (1992), a raunchy comedy which starred newcomer Cruz and up-and-coming fellow Spanish actor Javier Bardem. Both Cruz and Bardem went on separately to Hollywood careers and later became a real-life couple, marrying in 2010. A decade before "Jamon Jamon", Bigas Luna had tried his own hand in Hollywood, making "Reborn" with Dennis Hopper in the lead, but the movie garnered little notice. Bigas Luna kept working in Spain up to his death. In recent months he was preparing to film in his ...

Pedro Almodvar's new film, I'm So Excited will feature cameo appearances from Penlope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. 1 of 1 La Penlope: mile high fear in Almodvar's new film It's not quite Airplane! high jinks presumably but Pedro Almodvar's new film, I'm So Excited , features a plane load of plummeting people who decided to tell each other their secrets - with cameo appearances from Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. Cruz always lights up the movies of her fellow Spaniard Pedro Almodvar and she is set to add extra lustre once again - albeit in a cameo role - to his latest film which should appear in this country around about the summer (it opens in the UK on May 3). In the story, plane passengers bound for Mexico City are petrified with fear when the plane suddenly starts droppoing height rapidly. As you do, they do too - and if they are in an Almodvar film they certainly do - they confess their most intimate secrets to each other as they nose-dive towards al...