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Penelope Cruz snubs von Trier for Pirates of the Caribbean
Feb 17, 2010, 13:28 GMT
Madrid - Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, 35, has renounced a role in a Lars von Trier movie in order to star in the fourth part of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie saga, the daily El Pais said Wednesday.
Cruz will play a female pirate in Pirates of Caribbean: On Stranger Tides by US director Rob Marshall.
She will co-star with Johnny Depp, but other Pirates of the Caribbean veterans Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley will no longer participate.
The shooting of On Stranger Tides is due to begin in Hawaii in July.
Its schedule forced Cruz to abandon a role in von Trier's Melancholia, which deals with a huge planet threatening to destroy the Earth, and which the Danish director wrote specifically for her, according to El Pais.
Cruz tried to juggle the schedules for both films, but was forced to focus exclusively on the US movie, which will require from her a months-long preparation including fencing classes.
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