Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who is married to actress Penelope Cruz, says there are no perks to being famous. He believes that from the outside, it looks like being famous could be a glamorous lifestyle, but he says there is “nothing perfect” and that people don’t know what life is really like as a celebrity, or what he is really like in person:
‘There is no good side to celebrity. [Talking about my personal life] brings some other pressure and expectation that maybe a movie doesn’t deserve. It can help in some ways but not in others. There is nothing perfect. I guess these ideas belong to people’s perceptions from the outside. But we’re used to that. There are perceptions from the outside and then there is us. The real us.”
Javier also believes his job can be hard – not because it is physically demanding, but become he often immerses himself so deeply in a role that his emotions can get out of control and it can be hard to find the real ‘you’ after becoming a character:
”I do a job and am lucky enough that to do a job that I love but it is a hard one. I’m not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself and that can be difficult to control.”
