The divine Penélope Cruz covers the November 2024 issue of Vogue Hong Kong, posing in key pieces from the Chanel Cruise 2025 collection.

A Chanel ambassador since 2018, Cruz is styled by Michael Philouze in images by friends and star photographers Luigi Murenuu & Iango Henzi [IG] for ‘Penelope Cruz on Embracing Each Role and True Success’.

Writers Kaitlyn Lai and Kiki Fung do a very meaty overview of Penelope Cruz’s career before turning to the interview and her current projects. AOC highly recommends it.

Referring to Cruz playing most-recently Laura Ferrari in ‘Ferrari’ and Donatella Versace in ‘American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace’, Vogue HK asks the actor who would play her in a biopic. Her instantaneous reply was:

“It would be weird for me to think about that. Maybe when I’m 80 or 90, I could think about it. It is true that many things have happened to me, many other things that only my family or close friends know. Actually, this is the first time someone has asked me that, and I think it is a question I cannot answer until I am much much older.”

Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp in ‘Day Drinker’

Last week’s Penelope Cruz news is her teaming up with Johnny Depp for ‘Day Drinker’, a Lionsgate thriller with Marc Webb directing. The film is Cruz’s fourth film with Depp and is described by Lionsgate as one in which “a cruise ship bartender” and “a mysterious day drinker” . . . “find themselves entangled in a criminal underbelly, and connected in unexpected ways.”

Cruz worked with Depp on 2001’s ‘Blow’; 2011’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’; and 2017’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’. Penelope Cruz supported Depp in his court drama with Amber Heard, submitting affidavits saying she had never witnessed him engaged in violent behavior.

“Many years have passed and I have not only made 3 movies with him, but I also count on him as a great friend,” wrote Cruz in the court documents. “I’ve always been impressed by his kindness, his brilliant mind, his talent, and his peculiar sense of humor.”