Matt McConaughey Gets Poetic About Penelope

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Matt Gets Poetic About Pen

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.

Mortimer Schnerd, RN...

How tough can it be to form a circle with one hand and poke the middle finger of
the other through it repeatedly?

"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.