{"id":43296,"date":"2012-08-20T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43296"},"modified":"2012-08-20T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:59:49","slug":"penelope-cruz-dresses-up-as-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43296-penelope-cruz-dresses-up-as-mario","title":{"rendered":"Pen\u00e9lope Cruz dresses up as Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as if tough times has hit Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, as the Spanish actress has now resorted to wearing a moustache and dungarees in order to get work.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, jokes aside, the Vanilla Sky actress is the new spokeswoman for Nintendo and features in the latest advert for New Super Mario Bros 2 for the 3DS.<\/p>\n<p>The video includes Pen\u00e9lope, along with her younger sister M\u00f3nica, as they duel-out some sibling rivalry, through the use of two other other famous siblings, Mario and Luigi.<\/p>\n<p>After losing to her sister, Pen\u00e9lope must don Mario\u2019s synonymous look and live up to her part of the bet.<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s somewhat silly, it\u2019s great to see stars having some fun with video game products, as opposed to just slapping their name to it.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWSu3Al2uhs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43290-games-you-can-play-this-week-17.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Games you can play this week<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43191-top-gaming-news-this-week-7.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Top gaming news this week (6-12 August)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/43025-the-last-of-us-the-relationship-between-joel-and-ellie.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Last of Us \u2013 get to know Joel and Ellie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43195-gamescom-2012-in-pictures.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gamescom 2012 in pictures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43022-10-games-youll-never-finish-because-theyre-too-hard.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>10 games you\u2019ll never finish because they\u2019re too hard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bet results in the world famous actress rocking a mo\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":43297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1812,4078,323,6313,73,6312,6314,1464],"class_list":["post-43296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-advert","tag-core","tag-mario","tag-monica-cruz","tag-nintendo","tag-penelope-cruz","tag-penelope-cruz-mario","tag-super-mario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43307,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43296\/revisions\/43307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}