Javier Bardem News

Should everyone behind No Country for Old Men be preparing an Oscar acceptance speech?

The answer is in the affirmative for sure, if this week's Critics' Choice Awards were any kind of precursor to the main event of movies.

No Country for Old Men won Best Movie, the Cohen brothers were named Best Director and Javier Bardem was named Best Supporting Actor.

The latter was overly grateful in his acceptable speech, too:

"I feel like I won the lottery," Bardem said. "All the performers here are truly heartbreaking. I'm just a lucky guy, that is all. [And my costar Josh Brolin] is a great actor and a best friend."

Javier Bardem is a busy man.

As he earns critical acclaim for his role in No Country for Old Men, the actor is also doing publicity for the film, Love in the Time of Cholera.

Here's a snippet of a recent interview he conducted:

ComingSoon.net: You've said that you read Marquez's book when you were 14 and that it made a big impression on you. How did those feelings carry over to yourself as an adult and getting to portray that character?
Javier Bardem: Well, the first time I read it, as you said, it was so big. It's such a big novel. I mean, I followed the storyline, but I remember being thoroughly stuck in the reading of it. I was trying to get lost in the descriptions, for example when she goes to the market and the way that Garcia Marquez explains the flavors and the smells of the fruits and all of that.

I remember reading that like six times in a row, going through the page. It just opened a whole world for you and there were many things that I missed. After that, I read it twice. When I knew the movie was going to happen, I felt like I had to talk to the director and say, "I have a big passion for this character." Also, as an actor, it's a challenge to try to do somebody that goes from 20 to 75, because when you do that you have to avoid acting age.

You have to really try to act the character aging, which is different. That's a challenge, especially when, for example, you're shooting scenes in when you're 20, when you're 40 and when you're 75 all in the same day, and you have to change years that fast. That's a challenge, and I wanted to go to that challenge.

To read the full interview, click here.

Javier Bardem is receiving rave reviews for his role in No Country for Old Men.

Up next for the intense actor? A new Woody Allen movie. Bardem recently spoke to MTV about the change of roles.

"[Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall play tourists] who are coming to Barcelona, and it's about relationships," Bardem said of the film, due in theaters next year. "Penelope Cruz plays [my] ex-wife, and there is a triangle there - but it is much more than that."

Bardem plays a painter in the film, the basis for which is a major departure for Allen. Most of the dialogue is spoken in Spanish.

"It has both, Spanish and English, but most of the time English," said Bardem, insisting that it's actually him and Cruz who have had to do the most adjusting. "Working with a second language is difficult, because improvising is not easy when you have to work in a foreign language."

Overall, the actor says Allen's improvisational directing style has been a freeing experience.

"I did have great fun doing it, and a great chance to work, as an actor, with amazing dialogue and amazing circumstances and situations. And I did it all so fast that you don't have time to think; you have to be really open and just be."