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Penelope Cruz: Spends night with Salma Hayek before Oscar nominations
Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz probably would have slept in last Thursday and missed hearing that she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar ... if it weren't for her longtime pal Salma Hayek .
"I had just arrived to Los Angeles very, very late at night, and I had went to sleep," the Vicky Cristina Barcelona star told reporters over the weekend at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where she was named "outstanding performer of the year."
"Four hours later, I was at the house of some of my girlfriends, and they woke me up. Actually, it was Salma Hayek ," Cruz continued.
"She woke me up and said, 'We have to watch it live!' I said, 'That's such a big risk!'
"We watched and then I heard the news -- everything goes so fast!" she said. "An hour later, you have to start doing all these interviews and then you spend all day working. I haven't had the time yet to digest or understand it."
Cruz faces off against Amy Adams (Doubt); Viola Davis (Doubt); Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button); Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler).
The show airs on ABC Feb. 22.
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