Matthew McConaughey gets poetic about Penelope

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8/12/05 Matthew gets 'poetic' about Penelope



Matthew McConaughey, always reticent to talk about his love life, really must be in luurve.

He's gushed forth about how fabulous Spanish lady friend Penelope Cruz is - and how 'poetic' their relationship is. Golly.

Although Penelope has starred in several Hollywood movies, the Madrid-born star still speaks in heavily-accented English.

But Matt told Now magazine the little issue of language doesn't get in the way.

"It's amazing how much better you can communicate when you get rid of all those damn words!" he said.

"You start behaving like you do with a child who can't speak yet - you do charades. And it really works.

"I know a little bit of Spanish - I can get a noun and a verb - and then I act out the rest. You're more able to say what you mean by talking less.

"And then sometimes when you are talking, you don't say what you're meant to say and it becomes kind of poetic."

It really is most unlike Matt to talk about his romance. He's always denied relationships with Renee Zellweger and Sandra Bullock, claiming they were just friends.

But it all appears to be different with Penelope. "The first thing I noticed was that she's pretty easy on the eye," he told Now.

"The second was that she has a lot of respect for herself: her history, her past, her family. She's proud of where she comes from - which you don't see often.

"She's a full Latin woman and there's an earthiness to the Latin blood."

Sounds like we'll be seeing a lot more of this hot-blooded couple in 2006.

-ananova

[Bellatheball]

Um, Matt, it's not like she knows 5 words of English. She may have a thick accent but she's fluent in English. WTF is he talking about?

[lambex]

Isn't Spanglish truly poetic? Ridiculous.

[DitaPage*]

Wow, this is news of the week. *dramatic roll of the eyes*