Good friends Gwyneth Paltrow and Penelope Cruz went out to dinner last night in London. And to be honest, both of them sure looked the worse for wear. In fact they appeared utterly exhausted – to the point you couldn’t help but wonder why they’d left the house at all. The pair met when they costarred in the film “The Good Night” together last year.

Catching up with old friends is always a pleasure, but for Gwyneth Paltrow and Penelope Cruz it seems to have left them exhausted. The actresses looked ready for bed as they left the upmarket Zuma restaurant in Knightsbridge last night.

Penelope rubbed her eyes as Gwyneth drove them home in her car, with no limousine driver in sight. And without their designer frocks and made-up faces the two were barely recognisable as the A-listers who stalk the red carpet.

The pair are old friends, and starred together in The Good Night last year. Spanish actress Penelope normally makes her home in Los Angeles, but often visits her family in Europe.

American actress Gwyneth, meanwhile, lives with her Coldplay frontman husband Chris Martin in London. This year she returned to work after taking a career break to raise children Apple, four, and Moses, two. At the time she admitted being apprehensive about going back into the cut-throat film industry.

[From the Daily Mail]

Penelope looks much more out of it than Gwyneth, who drove them both home. She looks like she wants to curl up in the backseat and fall asleep. If they weren’t two of the most beautiful, wealthy, and famous women in the world, I’d almost feel badly for them. Gwyneth doesn’t look super tired so much as she looks angry. Maybe they were just sick of the paparazzi and doing their best to ignore them. Let’s hope they had a nice meal, nonetheless.

Here’s Gwyneth and Penelope driving away from Zuma restaurant in Knightsbridge, London last night. Images thanks to Splash.