Old campaign anti-fur of which I just found the HQs in amazing quality and all untagged.

Charity & Causes > PETA (anti-fur campaign) > Campaign

Penelope Cruz, the Academy Award–winning actor who charms audiences worldwide whether starring in blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides or in Pedro Almodovar’s critically acclaimed Volver, is taking on a starring role of a different kind in her PETA anti-fur ad. This talented actor is a muse for filmmakers and a perennial favorite on “best dressed” lists on both sides of the Atlantic—but never, of course, in fur. The always stunning Penelope asks fashionistas to join her to “give fur the cold shoulder.”

Penelope’s passion for cruelty-free fashion goes beyond the red carpet because she knows that fur is never glamorous—not as a coat, a collar, or even tiny trim. In fact, there’s not an inch of fur in the collection that she and her sister designed for the fur-free Spanish clothing retailer Mango.

Penelope will always take a pass on fur because of the extreme cruelty that fur production causes millions of animals around the world. Eighty-five percent of the fur industry’s skins come from animals raised on fur factory farms, where they spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages, only to be killed by the cheapest methods available, including suffocation, electrocution, gassing, and poisoning.

Animals trapped in the wild don’t have it any easier, as they can suffer for days from blood loss, shock, dehydration, frostbite, and gangrene as well as from attacks by predators.

Penelope and husband, Academy Award–winning actor Javier Bardem, not only welcomed an adorable son, Leo, into their family last year but also opened their home to an array of rescued dogs and cats. Penelope loves her rescued animals so much that she’s been known to take them with her to interviews! She wouldn’t dream of wearing her cats or dogs, but Chinese fur farms round up and kill millions of these animals, even skinning some alive and mislabeling their fur to sell to unsuspecting shoppers around the world.

For those of you who are strong enough you can watch a related video with STRONG CONTENTS about furs in China here. I tried looking till the end but I couldn’t, I felt too sick to go on. I take no responsibility on your watching, I warned you.

Spanish actress Penelope Cruz says that in the immediate future she will make only one or two films per year, since now she has “other priorities” after the birth of her first child with husband and fellow thespian Javier Bardem.

“Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now,” said Cruz in an interview for the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar, which on Tuesday published an excerpt on its Web page.

The actress, focused on her personal life with Bardem and little Leonardo, also confirmed that in the future she is not thinking about living in Los Angeles, where her son was born in January 2011.

“When I come here now, I have so many memories. Some of them good, some of them not so good,” she told the magazine. “I have lived beautiful moments here, but I don’t want to live here. It is not the place where I want to raise my kids.”

The 37-year-old star, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2009 for her performance in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” also has a special place in her heart for the film’s director, Woody Allen.

“I love being around Woody. Watching him direct, and sometimes, he falls asleep while they are lighting the next shot. I take pictures of him because he picks the strangest positions. I always think he is going to fall off his chair,” said Cruz.

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I’ve added the photoshoot from Harper’s Bazaar issue of May.

Photoshoots & Portraits > Photoshoots from 2012 > Photoshoot Session – 001

Yesterday in Rome took place the “To Rome With Love” World Premiere & Photocall to which of course Penélope attended. Here below a great collection of HQs all untagged.

Appereances in 2012 > April 13 – “To Rome With Love” – Photocall
Appereances in 2012 > April 13 – “To Rome With Love” World Premiere

Even hot Hollywood stars get starstruck on occasion.

Penelope Cruz, the Spanish beauty who captured American audiences with her turn as Maria Elena in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” tells the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar that she still idolizes Meryl Streep.

“When I first started watching movies and I saw Meryl’s work, that’s when I became obsessed with acting,” she admits to the magazine. “Now I kiss her whenever I see her! She must think I’m crazy.”

Cruz, 37, even recalls once doing a magazine shoot with the “The Devil Wears Prada” actress and being put in the precarious position of posing on top of her.

“As soon as she got to the set, I had to sit topless on top of her,” she says of the AIDS charity (RED) campaign they both starred in. “It was the most interesting love scene I’ve ever done.”

Currently, the brunette stunner is set to star in Woody Allen’s “To Rome With Love” — but fans will have to accept a slower stream of films from the actress in coming years.

Cruz, who is married to actor Javier Bardem, 43, is learning to strike a better balance between work and family.

“Maybe I’ll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it’s not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now,” she said of spending time with the couple’s 1-year-old son, Leonardo.

And as for red-carpet affairs and big Hollywood to-dos, Cruz says she’ll pass if it means spending more time doing what she loves most: “running around with my family at the beach, that’s all.”

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