What he lacks in stature, he more than makes up for in charm. Before Tom Cruise’s second spouse, Nicole Kidman, was left dazed and confused by his divorce bombshell, the actor had already moved on to work his magic on another costar, his “Vanilla Ice” leading lady Penelope Cruz. The chemistry was apparent between the two, and the timing of their romance was decidedly questionable, despite Cruz maintaining that things were strictly platonic until after Cruise divorced Kidman.
Cruz also has a rep for finding partners and spouses on set. She met her now-husband, Javier Bardem, while working on “Jamón, Jamón” when she was just 16. However, Cruz insisted to The Telegraph that she has always kept things purely business while filming. “I’ve never fallen in love with someone I’m working with,” she said. “It’s always been afterward. If something becomes friendship, then maybe months later, it becomes something else, but you can never know. It’s always a mystery. You can’t plan those things.”
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However, per Instyle, Cruz and Cruise were already flaunting their love around town just six months after his divorce filing. And then there were the gushing interviews. “She’ll come home, and I’ll have her favorite kind of food made, have a bath drawn,” Cruise told Marie Claire (via Entertainment Weekly). “I like doing stuff like that. She likes my food, so I cook for her. It’s always the little things I like in a relationship.”
