Penelope and Javier Bardem to team up for “Nine”

1:22 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Entertainment|Movies

22 Aug 2007

Spanish hotties Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have been cast for the film version of the Broadway musical “Nine”, based on the film 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini. Reports Variety:

Bardem just got the offer to play director Guido Contini, who experiences a creative and personal crisis as he tries to balance all the women in his life. That includes his wife, mistress, his film-star muse, agent and even his mother. Raul Julia originated the role onstage, and Antonio Banderas played it in the revival. The musical was inspired by the Fellini film “8 ½.”

Cruz is in talks to play Carla, Contini’s mistress, while Cotillard is to play his wife, Louisa. Although they have not yet committed, Zeta-Jones is being courted to play the director’s muse, and Loren his mother, who appears as a ghost.

What a star-studded cast. Bardem and Cruz are also already working together on Woody Allen‘s new movie being filmed in Barcelona.

The stage version of Nine starred another Spaniard, Antonio Banderas, and according to Spain’s 20 Minutos Banderas is interested in playing the role in the film version — the one Bardem has already been offered.

Via / Variety and 20 Minutos

Tags: javier bardem, penelope cruz

4 Responses to Penelope and Javier Bardem to team up for “Nine”

Mario

August 22nd, 2007 at 5:32 pm

I find it rather ironic that when Robert DeNiro played “Scarface” as a cocaine dealing Cuban gangster, many Hispanic groups wrapped themselves in the flag of righteous indignation over the negative portrayal of Latinos, even though the original “Scarface” was Alfonso Capone, an Italian-American mobster; a fact which I am sure was not lost on Mr. DeNiro. By the way, did I mention that Italians consider themselves Latins, and that the Latin tribes founded Rome?

Here we are, in the 21st Century, and there are no cries of indignation coming from anyone because Spanish actors are playing Italian characters. Maybe, just maybe some of us are getting better.

Maegan la Mala

August 22nd, 2007 at 9:42 pm

::sigh:: Here we go again. Latin and Latino are not the some thing especially in the context of current U.S. culture. Spaniards and Italians are both Europeans. And while yes historically Italians were looked down upon as not white when they arrived in the US in large numbers, eventually they “became white”, something that has yet to happen to Latinos regardless of their skin color etc…

Mario

August 23rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm

::sigh:: Yes, here we again; I hate to tell you Meagan there are still a large number of people in the US that do not consider Italians white. Did you know that Spaniards are considered Hispanics, and did you know that Argentina has the largest concentration of Caucasians in South America, but as far as the US government is concerned, Argentineans are still considered Hispanics and Latinos? I could write a term paper on this subject, heck I have already, would you like me to go on??? Whether you like it or not being Latino is a cultural condition rather than an ethnicity, and being Latino is not confined to the Americas.

Jon

September 21st, 2008 at 7:42 am

I have to say that being latino is confined only to the Americas. Latinos have no racial value because they are a mixture of races who identify under a Latin culture which is actualy a mix of Spanish, Indigenous, and African cultures. the fact is that Spanish peoples and Italians are white because they are Europeans, and many latinos in the Americas are white as well because they descent from europeans. Though, most Latinos as we know them are a mixed race between Indigenous natives and European Colonials. The old term was Mestizo. Latin, in the Roman descended context, is not the same as Latino, in the much more modern Pan-American contxt. Also, being Latino is not a “condition”.

VivirLatino

Penelope and Javier Bardem to team up for “Nine”

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