Toronto Film Festival 2018:
Penélope Cruz says that her character Laura in the new film “Everybody Knows” is the most difficult role she’s played in her career. But she said that her performance wouldn’t have been possible without the “demanding” influence of director Asghar Farhadi.
“We all know he’s very special, very clever and very demanding. I say he’s demanding in a very good way. For me, that’s a virtue, not something bad,” Cruz told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman in an interview at the Toronto Film Festival. “I don’t think how I could’ve done that with somebody that didn’t have what he has.”
Farhadi, an Iranian director whose films “A Separation” and “The Salesman” both won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, returns with “Everybody Knows” about a woman who returns to her hometown near Madrid for her sister’s wedding, but endures a state of panic when her sister goes missing.
