Miguel Bernardeau is in the spotlight of many spectators and followers of the heart on many different fronts. Whether it is because of his professional career, his connection with Ester Expósito or a possible reconciliation with his ex-partner Aitana Ocaña, the Valencian actor remains on the radar today. A fact that will permeate even more when Zorro is released, the adaptation of the adventures of Diego de la Vega that Prime Video will premiere on January 25.
Bernardeau has been the first guest of the week on El Hormiguero, the Antena 3 nighttime program presented by Pablo Motos. The two Valencians have commented on different aspects of the filming, from the seven tests that the performer did to the approximate 18,000 takes it took him to blow out a candle with the whip as he wanted. However, the most striking anecdote from his interview was one that almost cost him his life.
“Since I was little I have been in the sea a lot, I love surfing and I catch big waves, but then in the Mediterranean I fell off the catamaran and I was in the middle of the sea for 3 and a half hours and I almost drowned with a friend. It was the dumbest thing that happened to me in my life and it almost killed me,” expressed Diego de la Vega’s interpreter, to the astonishment of Pablo Motos and the audience present on the set. Bernardeau then proceeded to expand his explanation.
It was sailing on a windy day, but sailing calmly. I will remember it all my life. We went with harnesses on the catamaran. Was strong. It was a site I had been browsing my entire life. You go with the harness, it’s a biscoque, you hang to provide counterweight. One thing in the setup failed and we both fell into the water. The catamaran left. There was no one else and we were in a place where a lot of millionaires passed by with their boats and megayachts but none of them stopped,” he said.
“3 and a half hours yelling at them. You see them and no one paid attention to us. Your throat crystallized with salt and we had hypothermia. That’s when I thought… we have a problem. A man stopped with his boat because he had found our catamaran adrift. I will remember it all my life because when he gave me his hand to hold me he offered me a glass of champagne,” he concluded, to the laughter of the audience at the unexpected end of the anecdote.
Another striking moment of the evening, despite generating more concern than humor, was carried out by Pablo Motos when he returned late and without a jacket from a commercial break. “I got heat stroke, but I’m fine now. She gave me a low blood sugar or something. You gave me Coca-Cola. Sorry,” he explained to the audience, cutting himself off at the last moment after inadvertently mentioning a trademark.
