Actress Penelope Cruz in now control

BEVERLY HILLS, California - OK, then; Penelope Cruz is prepared to go this far: She'll concede that she was pregnant during the shooting of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, but don't expect her to say much more about her personal life.
She's also think to prepared reveal that director Rob Marshall had to be very much careful with camera angles because of her expanding midriff. And yes, her pirate costumes were something of a new challenge for the wardrobe department.
"They had to do a few adjustments for me over the months," she admits cautiously in her softly accented English. But she did love wearing the outfits, even when they had to conceal her approaching motherhood.
"For a character so far away from our own reality and nowadays, they really helped me to imagine what a pirate would have been like in those times. It really helped to get into those boots and those clothes and those locations.
It's interesting to watch the 36-year-old Cruz draw a line in the sand when talking to reporters. There was a time when her English was less confident and she was more hesitant in her media sessions. But now she has the necessary confidence and has no trouble making it clear there are some things she doesn't want to talk about.
Things like her marriage to fellow Spanish actor Javier Bardem, and her son Leo, who was born in January.
Things like the new Woody Allen movie she's about to start filming in July.
Still, it's questions about her private life that especially raise the barriers. Reporters routinely ask actresses about the joys of parenting - but they needn't bother with this lady.
"I have a rule of not talking about my family in interviews." Cruz is polite but firm. "I don't have a problem with saying I am very happy, because I am, but I don't want to give details of our life. It is important, I think, from the beginning, to maintain that privacy and separate it from my work. For me, that's sacred."
She doesn't mind talking about her work, but again, she makes the rules. In the case of Woody Allen, who wrote and directed her into an Academy Award for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, she's tight-lipped about the plot of Bop Decameron, their new project together.
"Hmm . . ." she responds when pressed to discuss it. "He doesn't want us to talk about the film or the character, so I will respect that."
We do know that it co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Ellen Page - but not much more. And Cruz does concede that she's looking forward to working with Woody again.
"We're going to shoot in Rome in July. I can't wait to be around him again, because he makes me laugh so much."