Penlope Cruz refused to model for Ralph Lauren.
 Cruz's performance as Carla was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards
In 2021, Cruz starred alongside Antonio Banderas in Gastn Duprat & Mariano Cohn's film Official Competition and reunited with Almodvar for the film Parallel Mothers, in which she played Janis, a professional photographer entangled in a relationship with a married man, leading to an affair and resulting in her pregnancy

