On July 19, 2018, the singer Rosalía surprised everyone with an unexpected move in her career: debuted as an actress and nothing more and nothing less than the hand of Pedro Almodóvar.
“Today has been a beautiful day… I have done my first movie scene… When I was little I watched Pedro’s films with my mother and my sister and the women who starred in them seemed from another world and at the same time so familiar “My life has always been about singing, playing, dancing, performing and, I really say it, since I was little I dreamed of doing something like that… Today I was filming the new Almodóvar film that will come out next year,” the Catalan revealed on her social networks along with a photo hugging Penélope Cruz, both of them dressed for the film.
Until that day, little or almost nothing was known about the relationship between our most international director and our most international singer—only that they have their birthday on the same day, September 25—although they had already met and had been photographed together at the party. for the 30th anniversary of Vogue magazine.
Later, the singer Badly was part of the poster of the Inquieta Culture Festival and the director came to see her with one of his fetish actresses,Rossy de Palma —who collaborated on the topic Prisoner from the disk The evil will—.
A few weeks later, the relationship between Rosalía and Pedro went viral on a fun concert video which she gave on October 18, 2018 in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid to present her album The evil to want.
One of the spectators who attended the event was the director – who, by the way, is among the names that appear in the acknowledgments of this work as one of the artists who have influenced him the most -, a self-confessed follower of the singer who had already gone to several of his concerts. As she walked to the stage, he shouted at her from the VIP balcony: “Rosalía, beautiful, I’m Pedro!” She ignored him.
The moment spread like wildfire through the networks and she, in addition to ensuring that He didn’t like the video at all because of “admiration and love” how she feels towards the man from La Mancha, she was forced to explain what had happened. “At performances I wear headphones that completely soundproof you. And I didn’t find out, if I find out I’ll stop and greet him the first time!” he explained regretfully.
Just a few days later, the couple signed the peace having dinner in a restaurant in the capital and posing together, hugging and smiling on the way out.
By Lola Flores and with Penélope Cruz
On March 22, 2019, the premiere of the film could finally be seen on the big screen. Motomami in the cinema. The movie was Pain and Glory, starring Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandía in which Penélope Cruz also has a role.
She shared the scene with the one from Alcobendas – just over two minutes – giving life to a group of women washing in the river. “I would like to be a man to bathe in the river naked”says the Catalan woman and then begins to sing, while they fold sheets, at your sidea song popularized by Lola Flores.
“The scene we shot demonstrates Rosalía’s vocal power. We had very little time, we did it live with the sound of the river. You have to have a very powerful voice so that you are also understood. It was her,” the filmmaker praised his work.
“I am a huge fan of Pedro Almodóvar. “All my life I dreamed of being an Almodóvar girl and my time has come,” he told Vogue magazine, although he also confessed his slight disappointment. “I had always seen… that Buika, gorgeous, was singing in an Almodóvar film, that Penelope was singing Returnbeautiful. And I had to play the peasant. My debut in an Almodóvar film, as an Almodóvar girl, was with a scarf on my head and dressed as a peasant. Me, if Pedro wants me to return to one of his movies… Pedro, you know that I am here to redeem this moment that I had with these clothes. I would love to sing in a great dress, Pedro,” he asked the director.
After the premiere, they were not seen together again until July 20, 2022, at the tour concert. Motomami in Madrid. At the end of the show, They posed backstage with Belén Estebanalso a friend of the singer.
A group of friends in common
From her experience under the orders of Pedro Almodóvar, Rosalía gained another valuable friendship, that of Penélope Cruz. “The truth is that since we were introduced I felt a very strong connection with you and a lot of respect and admiration, because you also started very early and you will have experienced very intense things from a very young age,” the actress confessed to the singer in the interview that the protagonist of Return He did the Catalan thing for Vogue magazine.
Since then, the two have coincided at some international events, including the MET 2024 gala, in which the artists served as pperfect ambassadors of our country.
Just a few weeks before the big fashion event, the three friends met at a special celebration, that of 50th birthday by Penelope Cruz. The party, held on a terrace with beautiful views of New York City, was attended by, among many other international celebrities – Robert de Niro, Adam Driver and Maggie Gyllenhaal – Rosalía and Pedro Almodóvar.
On her social networks, the actress especially highlighted the singer’s presence at the party by publishing several photos with her. “I love you,” was Motomami’s tender response.