Javier Bardem Calls Wife Penélope Cruz 'Amazingly F---ing Beautiful' 15 Years After Getting Married
Javier Bardem Calls Wife Penélope Cruz 'Amazingly F---ing Beautiful' 15 Years After Getting Married
Jack SmartTue, May 5, 2026 at 9:59 PM UTC
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Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz in 2022Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty -
Javier Bardem appeared on the cover of Variety magazine to talk about his upcoming projects, activism and life with wife Penélope Cruz
The Spanish star raved at the way Cruz “relates to her family, to her friends, to our kids, to me, to herself”
“On top of that, she's amazingly f---ing beautiful!” he added
In case you've ever wondered: yes, Javier Bardem marvels at the fact that Penélope Cruz is his wife.
“She's a woman I'm so blessed by having had the chance to be at the same time, in the same place, in life,” the Spanish actor, 57, said in a new Variety cover story about home life, The Beloved and speaking out in support of Palestinians. “It's important that you respect and support your partner, but also that you admire that person for what she is, for what she does.”
Cruz, 52, “is an amazing, beautiful, good human being,” Bardem, who has been married to his Vicky Cristina Barcelona costar since 2010, told the magazine. The couple, who first met filming the movie Jamón, Jamón together in 1992, share two children: son Leo and daughter Luna.
Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz in 2022Credit: Carlos Alvarez/Getty
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“The way she relates to her family, to her friends, to our kids, to me, to herself. It's been a lot of years, and I haven't seen a hint of malice in her,” Bardem raved of his wife.
“On top of that, she's amazingly f---ing beautiful!” he added. “When I see her being photographed on some magazines, I go, Is that my wife? Jesus, is it? It must be!”
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Bardem, who reunited onscreen with Cruz in Florian Zeller's upcoming thriller Bunker, also offered insights into their life as parents. “The only thing I do pay attention to" in deciding his roles, he said, is whether they take him "no more than two weeks away from my family." Since he and Cruz became parents, one or the other has remained at home in Madrid, where Bunker was shot.
“At home, we don't talk much about work,” the Dune star said, “though we love what we do. We try to compartmentalize life and fiction.”
Javier Bardem at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty
Bardem and Cruz were able to “listen to each other and be in emotional contact for many hours" while making Bunker together, he said. “Because sometimes you are immersed in your daily s--- and the kids and the house, and it's like — when do you sit down and look at each other again? When do you start to breathe again, and take the other person in?”
The actor described the upcoming film as "a marriage story."
Bardem next stars in a limited series adaptation of Cape Fear with Amy Adams, premiering on Apple TV on June 5. Among the Oscar winner's other upcoming projects are Bunker, Rodrigo Sorogoyen's The Beloved (which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16) and Residente's Porto Rico. He also reprises his role as Stilgar in Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three, which hits theaters on Dec. 18.
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