Hollywood actress Penélope Cruz rejects cell phones for her children (10 and 12 years old). “It’s so easy to be manipulated, especially when the brain is still developing,” the 49-year-old, who has a daughter and a son with Hollywood star Javier Bardem, told the fashion magazine “Elle”. “And who pays the price for this? Not us, not our generation, which perhaps learned how a BlackBerry works at the age of 25.”
The Oscar winner (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) made it clear that ten-year-old Luna and twelve-year-old Leo do not yet have their own cell phones. “It’s a cruel experiment on children, on teenagers.” Cruz and her husband apparently agree in their rejection of smartphones: Oscar winner Bardem (“No Country for Old Men”) told the German Press Agency in 2022 that in his eyes cell phones had “changed everything,” “unfortunately too for the worse”: “The ability to make contact has been lost.”
