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But for Carmen, the only character that I wrote with specifically her in mind was Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. In this case, I wanted to work with Penélope and she was included in the project from the beginning. PA: Usually I don't write the characters with actors in mind. MD: And did you have Carmen Maura in mind for Raimunda's mother? So I rewrote the script five or six times with her in my mind as the mother, Raimunda. So I thought she's very young, but biologically she can be a mother and have a 15-year-old daughter. But during the writing, and even when I had the first draft, I started to think that the granddaughter wasn't important enough - I wanted Penélope to have a bigger part. At first I had thought of Penélope for the character of the granddaughter. But the story always changes a lot during the development. PA: She knew the story since the beginning, from the first note that I wrote. MD: Did you write the role of Raimunda for Penélope?
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So in every movie that I made, I was always thinking, "What's he going to think of this one?" He's always really present in everything I do. Once you try it, you get addicted, you're hooked forever. I was always comparing everything to working with him, and you shouldn't do that. It had been five years of not working together, and though we stayed in contact because we are very good friends, for me it felt like 20 years, it was too long. But the main comeback, that I was really missing, was the feeling of working with him. So I felt very blessed to be able to do this in my country, surrounded by my friends and family. We worked for six months on this movie - we rehearsed for three months and then shot for three. Penélope Cruz: For me it was also a comeback, as you say, in terms of working in my language again after a few years, which I had really missed, and also in terms of working in my country and spending time there. And the mother, without realising it, was creating an irresistible temptation for the father, and he fell into temptation. You know the scene towards the end when the mother says to the daughter, "Have you always had such big bosoms?" and the daughter says, "Yes, since I was a child." So she had been a very attractive child, and the mother had tried to make her even more beautiful for the talent audition.
That was the moment when the mother tried to make her, and one assumes that she was a beautiful child, into a movie star. And when Raimunda sings Volver, it is also very moving because then the mother, Irene, knows that Raimunda remembers her, because she is singing the song that she taught her when she was very young. The song is very important to the movie because it is the song taught by the mother, Carmen's character, to her very beautiful child, Penélope's character, to present during an audition to become a movie star. But also Volver, if you are familiar with Argentinian music, is a very famous tango from the 30s sung by Carlos Gardel. And also the sense of coming back from beyond, in the character that Carmen Maura plays in the film. In fact that was the main thing for me that was really very moving, more so than I thought. The ones you mentioned - I returned to working with Carmen and Penélope, and I returned to my roots and shot there. Pedro Almodóvar (with Maria Delgado translating): In effect, there are many returns in this movie. Perhaps you'd both like to talk to us about the sense of returning on this film. And for you, Penélope, a return to Spanish-language cinema and to working with Pedro. I think there's a sense of returning for both of you in this film - for you Pedro, returning to La Mancha and some of the themes of your earlier work, and to some of the stars, such as Carmen Maura and Penélope, with whom you haven't worked in a while. Volver in Spanish means to go back or to return. I'd like to start with a discussion about Volver. Maria Delgado: Penélope and Pedro, welcome to the NFT this evening.