Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem have proven that they aren’t afraid to speak out about politics, with the power couple being especially vocal about their support of Palestine.
So it was inevitable that the topic would come up at the Venice Film Festival press conference for their new film “Bunker,” which also doesn’t dance around timely issues. Directed by Florian Zeller, they star as a husband and wife whose 17-year marriage begins to unravel after Bardem’s character, an architect, agrees to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire.
Asked about their choice to speak up about politics as actors, Cruz pointed out that it would be “very contradictory” not to do so while starring in a movie like “Bunker.”
“We don’t have to agree with our characters, we don’t have to agree sometimes with the story, but this involves so many aspects of where the world is right now — things that affect all of us, future generations,” Cruz said. “There are so many things in this film that it would be really contradictory to then be here and say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk about that.’ It’s impossible. And that’s why a situation like [this press conference] is sometimes more scary than, I don’t know how many weeks of shooting that we did. But still, I don’t think it would make sense to say, ‘I don’t talk about politics.'”
