Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar shocked a few reporters in New York when he decided to comment on the relationship Penelope Cruz (known as Pe and one of Pedro’s muses) had with Tom Cruise:

Almodóvar said in a meeting with reporters that the actress’ career was damaged by the long relationship she maintained with the polemic Tom Cruise, current partner of Katie Holmes.

The director also said that the roles that Cruz gets in the U.S. aren’t on par with her talent as an actress, and that in general she is offered scripts that cast her as “the pretty girl” instead of letting her develop all of her potential.

Penelope was Cruise’s faithful compaion for years, right after he divorced from actress Nicole Kidman. For Almodóvar, that relationship made the press “see Penelope in a bad light”. He thinks that many people, not only in the U.S., saw her as an opportunist, when that wasn’t the case and that Nicole Kidman could take advantage of her relationship to get good roles, but Penelope could not since “they saw her as the other woman”.

If Katie Holmes is reading this, I bet she’s saying “amen”. Tom Cruise is more a career liability than a help these days.

Meanwhile, Pe seems to be over all of that, happily dating Orlando Bloom and getting hit on by “drag kings”.

Via / El Semanal Digital