Penelope Cruz Talks Her SAG Awards Gape and Work as a Chanel Ambassador: “The Ideal Members to Work With”

Penelope Cruz says she loved every survey when Chanel‘s Spring 2024 high fashion assortment debuted in Paris on Jan. 23, however one costume leaped out as her favourite: a cigaline sort dancing costume in a candy-hued crimson, featuring a hand-beaded flounced neckline oldschool off the shoulders, sequined bodice and ankle-length fat skirt. The make used to be undeniably amongst the highlights of the ballet-impressed assortment by Chanel artistic director Virginie Viard.

Cruz forwarded the image to Chanel’s group, requesting to position on the costume at an upcoming tournament, and it used to be quick agreed that the make would possibly perhaps per chance per chance be perfect for the Feb. 24 SAG Awards — where she would possibly perhaps per chance per chance be an ideal supporting actress nominee for Ferrari — and that crafting it in a clear color also elevated the survey to one-of-a-kind explain for the actress.

“We talked about the possibilities, and we all thought this tint of blue would possibly perhaps per chance per chance additionally very nicely be perfect,” Cruz, a Chanel ambassador since 2018, tells The Hollywood Reporter exclusively. “I reveal it’s a truly particular costume, so as to position on it for this kind of clear occasion, being nominated with a film that I in actuality love, and being nominated at SAG, which is mostly, for me, very particular and makes me feel very grateful.”

The costume also would possibly perhaps per chance per chance additionally dangle resonated with Cruz because it reminded her of her dangle ballet background, discovering out for 9 years whereas she grew up out of doorways of Madrid. Even then, to position on Chanel used to be excessive on her wish list.

“I dangle been partial to the logo since I was honest a runt girl, when it used to be no longer that which that you can per chance also bring to mind for me to position on one thing else, however I would dream about it and I would derive photos from magazines and from the presentations,” she says. “I always thought it used to be the most iconic label attributable to what they’ve built over the years … I dangle been an envoy of the logo for just a few years, however they’ve made me feel love fragment of the firm for the rationale that 1990s, for the rationale that first stutter I went to behold in 1999. I possess love our relationship started that day, and besides they’re the supreme of us to work with … amazing and extremely kind and extremely generous.”

Now crafted in navy blue silk with a sequin-embroidered bodice in a color christened “neptune blue,” Cruz regarded thoroughly good-searching in the custom costume on Saturday night at the 30th annual Cowl Actors Guild Awards at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium.

“I’m very honored to be here and grateful for the nomination that comes from my dangle guests, my dangle colleagues,” she mentioned on the SAG Awards carpet. “It’s an emotional, graceful feeling, I in actuality didn’t request this.”

To construct the survey, Cruz all but again used to be impressed by the navy silk. “I believed of earrings from [Chanel’s] excessive jewellery assortment that I had viewed in blue and diamonds and knew these had been so perfect for this costume,” she notes.

Besides to her Les Talismans Fascinante pendant earrings in 18-karat white gold, diamonds and blue enamel, the actress also wore a diamond and white gold ring from the home’s No. 5 jewellery assortment and the Icône Ruban ring, crafted of white gold, diamonds and pearls, from the 2023 Tweed de Chanel excessive-jewellery assortment.

By some means, Chanel is a home Cruz knows intimately, previous being a fan and ambassador. She also treasured her friendship with Karl Lagerfeld, who elevated the logo from myth to celeb explain for the length of his tenure from 1983 till his dying in 2019 — which also makes Cruz an perfect particular person to weigh in on Viard’s capability to files Chanel into its future.

“Virginie, I always deliver the the same thing,” Cruz tells THR. “She is the supreme particular person in the sector to continue what Karl used to be doing and clearly that’s what is being viewed over the previous couple of years in each season. She is mostly herself along with her dangle prints which would possibly perhaps per chance per chance be so inner most and extra special, however at the the same time 100 p.c Chanel. She retains the essence of Chanel whereas bringing some original air, and I am a immense fan of everything that she does, her persona, how humble she is and her expertise.”

She also by no manner loses scrutinize of how lucky she feels to partake of an trip accessible to handiest a select few. “They work in actuality, in actuality entertaining, and their creativity is extra special, Virginie and all of her group,” Cruz says of the atelier. “It’s in actuality a pleasure so as to dangle this relationship with them, where I will survey the map from the inner, seek advice from the atelier sooner than the presentations. I possess very privileged to behold it all.”