Word: vegas
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...teenager back in her native Seville, Paz Vega made up her mind to become famous. Another Spaniard and fellow Andalucian, Antonio Banderas, had made it big in Hollywood, so why couldn't she? "I had always loved theater and cinema," says Vega, 29, over the phone from Miami, where she's promoting her latest film, Spanglish. "So one day I said to myself that I would become an actress...
JARED ROITSTEIN-VEGA...
...Good As It Gets and, in fact, his one film flop, I'll Do Anything. This time he crams a Malibu house with anguished sweeties: superchef John (Adam Sandler); John's two good, frazzled kids; his mother-in-law (Cloris Leachman); and two newcomers, gorgeous Mexican housekeeper Flor (Paz Vega) and her perfect daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce...
Flor (Paz Vega), an illegal immigrant and overprotective mother, takes a job as maid for the Clasky family to keep an eye on her daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), at night. The film is structured with voiced-over excerpts from Cristina’s college entrance essay about her mother. The idea seems at first a little cheesy—the narration smacks of the immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when...
...stellar cast around him. Tea Leoni pulls off an incredible feat: the Deborah Clasky character is manic, egotistical, with absolutely no redeemable qualities yet somehow she brings a warmth and humanity to the character—you don’t hate her at the end of the movie. Vega, star of Spanish hits Sex Y Lucia and Talk to Her, stubbornly refuses to make Flor a type character, replacing the ignorant, meek characteristics of the non-English speaking servant with nobility and confidence...