The awards season came to an end this past Sunday with the celebration of the 96th edition of the Oscars. The award ceremony for the renowned awards, which was held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, was presented once again by the famous presenter Jimmy Kimmel, who added a touch of humor to a gala in which Oppenheimer and Barbie stole all the attention. looks, as expected.
Spanish talent was also present at the great night of the seventh art. Juan Antonio Bayona and Pablo Berger were up for two big awards thanks to The Snow Society and Robot Dreams. However, the Spanish filmmakers failed to win any statuette.
But even though on this occasion both left empty-handed, Spain has always been very well represented at the Oscars throughout history. If we look back, we can remember a large number of moments featuring filmmakers and performers from our country who managed to leave the Dolby theater with a statuette in their arms.
An example of this was the Oscar that Belle Époque, Fernando Trueba’s film, won. A film starring Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz, Maribel Verdú and Miriam Díaz-Aroca, among others. In a week, it will be 30 years since the award and for this reason, Miriam Díaz-Aroca wanted to remember in a new interview on the Ser network that iconic moment and her unexpected meeting with Clint Eastwood.
”We kissed,” the actress began by saying. ”We were at a small party for the nominees prior to the Oscars. A small party in a small shack that had Columbia live on. We were all casual nominees, we weren’t wearing sequins. She played us next to Nicolas Cage and Sharon Stone. But I decided to observe the environment and recognized the back of her head. It’s Clint Eastwood. We were about 50 meters away, but I was stuck because he had always been the platonic love of my life,’ she said.
Suddenly, the actress saw how the director turned around and looked at her. ”He must have felt my gaze. I was absolutely shocked and Maribel Verdú said to me ”and that face?” and I told her ”Clint Eastwood looked at me”. Then she grabbed my arm and when we got to it she was looking down because he was very tall and the only thing I could say was: ”Can I kiss you? (Can I kiss you?). He didn’t answer me, but he approached me, I grabbed his waist and then he kissed me. I remember that his complexion was very hard, hairy, but tough and then he smelled of cardboard and leather,’ she confessed.
