'To Rome with Love' was an awesome experience: Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz is on her second film with director Woody Allen. The duo, who collaborated earlier on Vicky Christina Barcelona (VCB) four years ago, is now back with To Rome with Love. How different is her role in To Rome with Love from the one in VCB?
VCB’s Maria Elena is a mad character, more often seen in easy dresses, bare foot and fringed huge bags. She is a restless character and has to create some chaos wherever she is.My character from To Rome with Love Anna, is well dressed, tucked in from head to toe. A lady who thinks she is helping society through prostitution. Anna is street smart, whereas Maria was mad and innocent too. To Rome with Love is a comedy that follows the lives of various individuals, some of whom are American and some Italian, some residents and some visitors, all around the enchanted ancient city. These people from all different walks of life will experience romances and adventures, in a place where they’re surrounded by extraordinary culture, art and cuisine,” says Penelope.
The film, also sees the actor team with stalwarts like Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin and even a youngster like Jesse Eisenberg.
Talking about her experience of working with them, she says, “It was a very good experience working with each one of them. It was also interesting because we didn’t know about each others character and Woody let each one us give our inputs to the character. That made the experience awesome.”