Cruz: I’m happy in my skin now

PENELOPE Cruz has revealed she hated having to strip naked for her breakthrough movie when she was just 18. The actress said she dreaded the scenes in the romantic drama Jamon, Jamon and cried on the last day, saying, “What if I never shoot a movie again?”

But fast-forward 25 years and she poses nude beneath a velvet curtain on the cover of Esquire. She says she has grown used to being a star, adding: “This is just a consequence of my job.” The full interview appears in the November issue, on sale from Tuesday.