The 49-year-old actress is happier now but still misses the "antics" of her younger days. She said: "Sometimes I would like to do more antics and return more to that kind of unconsciousness" She added: "I take advantage of every decade, every moment, and I never think that 'I was better before' " Penelope previously admitted her regular director collaborator Pedro Almodóvar has always viewed her as a mother on screen.
She told Elle magazine: "At my age, 80 per cent of the characters that I play will be about motherhood or divorce"