oh my goodness how do you do good good welcome to the show well we're very happy to have you and
boy you're just beautiful just lovely thank you now when you're this beautiful do you get tired
of people saying oh my god you're beautiful no no because people don't react like you just reacted
well maybe he says more about me than you
well anyway welcome to the show i'm so happy you're here because we wanted to
have you on for years and years and it's a great thrill to see you in person now
i'm very happy also to come i was always a little scared because i'm scared because i'm shy
and at the beginning when i started my career in america i was always saying no to talk shows
and i felt always a little intimidated by you now i feel very comfortable good comfortable
sitting here in but i i remember when i came to america watching the show
and always thinking wow those people have big balls to be able to sit there and talk to you
so today
you know it used to be a requirement but we
we we have waived that but you know you said something interesting i i think um
what uh i i think if uh if if i were a a movie star like yourself uh a world famous around
the world i wouldn't go on shows like this at all well it's fun now i like it well i'm glad
you're here and i don't want to discourage you and we'll see how it goes i hope you come back
but now now you actually you're from spain you're born where in spain
madrid beautiful city isn't it i love my city i miss it so much and uh you started as an actress
early then i i started acting when i was 16. 16 years old and is this something that your
family helped you get started with or something you wanted to do on your own
no i when i i started dancing since i was four and for many years i wanted to be a dancer and
then one day i saw an almodover's movie tie me up tied me down and i wasn't allowed to see that
movie but i went secretly by myself and i came out and i said okay i'm gonna try i'm gonna try
to get an agent and i wanna become an actress so that one day i can work with him right and
i'm preparing my third movie with him now so wow sometimes congratulations dreams come true so yeah
and and when you started dancing as a young child was it a form of
recreation or was it exercise or what was your interest in dancing well i had so much energy
at home and in school which i never think is a bad thing you just have to when a kid is like
that you just have to give him a way so that he can channel that energy and do something with it
they they when i finished school like at five o'clock they didn't know what to do with me i
was terrible as a kid i was always getting in trouble so they said choose from a sport what
do you want to do something that makes you extorted by the time you come home
so i chose to go to to ballet and i loved it and i did it for like four hours a day
until i was like 17 18. wow i bet you were stunning as a ballerina i bet that was a great
thing to see well i was very young because oh well you can be a bit 17 you said you did until you
were 17. no no when you were when you were four you were cute when you were 17 you were stunning
but
but you know you raise a good point because i i think the situation here in the united states
is that children tend to be very very active and have a great deal of energy and that's the nature
of kids as you yourself experience but here in this country we we sedate them we drug them
well i'm so happy you're walking around gooned on stuff all the time that is something that i
absolutely hate like if i would have been raised here in these years right now in america with the
behavior that i had in school asking too many questions and too curious about everything they
would have called my parents and say your your kid has atd occ i mean yeah exactly right exactly
right yeah and they do it to so many millions of children so i'm happy when i when i was a
kid when i was about four or five years old i was just like you and i had to say that again
and i had excessive energy and so every day i would run from i lived in indianapolis and
every day before dinner i would run to muncie and back i don't know i'm gonna say about 60 miles how
long would that take you time oh so you know i take my time it's a two or three hour run really
uh and you know it's interesting i want to talk more about this movie sahara what a lovely exotic
location and you actually filmed it in the sahara desert yeah we showed in the desert like for three
months and then we showed in my country for one month and then in england and is it fun
when you're doing something like because i looked at the movie and i thought wow this is a lot of
work it really is more than just memorizing lines and stuff it's it's quite physical and exhausting
i would think yeah but it's a lot of fun it's my first time doing an action adventure movie
for the whole family you know and when i read it because i i received some before but i always
felt that they were not interesting enough or the female character was there running around confused
you know and they were not good enough and i read this one and i felt the script was so smart and so
funny the movie is really funny and you feel like it's a little bit like the the tone and the energy
of indiana jones and i miss movies like that you know and it's matthew mcconaughey and steve zahn
steve yes very very funny now you know uh our cue card boy tony mendez speaks spanish you of course
speak spanish would you mind just chatting a little bit because i love to hear tony do you mind
talking to pinellas okay so what do you want us to talk about anything you guys want to talk about
wait a minute
he's hyperactive i know you wanted me to scream back at him no no it's fine he's he's hyperactive
we've got to get a medicated yeah a friend of yours is on the show off in the salma hayek and
she was telling us about a horrifying experience the two of you had in a plane ride you're flying
from somewhere in mexico back to los angeles was that what it was from los angeles to mexico los
angeles to mexico halloween halloween yeah and it was uh like an emergency in in the sky right yes
we were like halloween wearing masks and wigs and looking at fashion magazines la la la going and
then they then the stewardess said this uh there's preservation in the cabin how do you say that
that's right and our mass came down and we had an emergency landing that was one of the most scary
things that i have experienced in my entire life but i heard salma did an imitation on me when she
was here yes because yesterday how was it yeah it was well i don't know i had not met you at
the time so i can't can't say whether it was right on the money or not i well i think she was right
about me being the only person that was yelling and screaming on the plane everyone else was so
sad yeah so relaxed i was relaxed until we landed like before we landed when i thought it was really
a possibility that we could die i was like very like worried about everyone else and thinking okay
if we are going to go somewhere else i want to be alert so that i can see whatever is there whatever
it is and after that they said we are landing in hermosillo we didn't even know where that was and
as soon as we landed i exploded i i couldn't stop crying and screaming for five hours all the people
that were with me they didn't want to listen to it anymore because they were there they saw it so i
went and talked to all the strangers that i saw in the airport and they thought i was some crazy lady
and people were in a rush traveling with their kids they go but let me tell you i could have died
but from from her description it it really was a serious situation and it wasn't just like a
little turbulence you had real trouble no it was like the plan was going like this because
what happens is that if they this person this prisoner is the president if that happens and
they don't take the plane down very very fast everyone faints including the pilots that's right
so they did it and i think they did a great job because now we're here and we can laugh at it yeah
and imitate each other right but it's great to see all the different reactions from people salma
didn't react because she got nervous and she got blocked so she was feeling a cos immigration card
and and she looks up and she sees the mask and just keeps writing and and i was like i hope she
doesn't get paralyzed from fear and then she said she looked back again because 15 seconds
passed by and i hadn't spoken and she said that was very weird that i didn't talk for so long
and then she looked and then and i was wearing the mask and it was the mask with
the halloween weeks and they were horrible but funny now i'm so happy i can tell the story and
weird but it's good if you think you're gonna die you gotta have your paperwork in order
you don't wanna anything undone uh now this uh this movie sahara we mentioned earlier and
you actually shot it in the sahara desert and it's an action adventure thing and you
were lost once in the desert right yeah i got lost once being lost at sea really isn't it yeah
i i never thought about what that would feel like and i was going to the set it was five in
the morning i was sleeping in the back seat and i woke up because i heard some weird like stressful
and i saw my driver sorry are we okay and we didn't speak we didn't understand each other
i look back the security car was lost and we were in the middle of the desert completely lost
he had a walkie-talkie and i didn't understand what they were saying to each other
but the thing is that which kind of directions are you gonna get north is sun south sun
so it was the feeling i got so nervous because i'm very active that way and i want to be part
of helping to resolve it but because i didn't understand i just said you know what i'm getting
so nervous i'm gonna go back to sleep and i trust you wake me up when we get to the set when i go
to the set they were all laughing in the trailer they had to shoot without me those pigs um let's
see uh tell us about the clip we're going to see here the movie opens april 8th by the way uh what
are we going to see you're going to see one of my favorite scenes of the movie which is the clip
with the camels we trained for two full months to do this scene that is like two minutes in and we
our goal is to get from the camels being able to jump on the train in motion and the train is gonna
take us to some to a place that is very important for us to resolve our mystery and find what we're
looking for so when we see this it's actually you jumping from the camel to the train yes this
is all us all the galloping four kilometers per hour and on top of the train the only
thing that is not me is the little jump from the camel to the to the train but after they saw me
it's uh sahara opens april 8th and this is the lovely penelope cruz
thank you so much for coming i hope you come back