Zorro is one of the most iconic characters in the history of fiction seen from a Hispanic point of view. Considered one of the first heroes of modern culture, Johnston McCulley’s creation gained special popularity in Spain when Antonio Banderas portrayed him in the 1998 film: The Mask of Zorro. Since then, another young Spanish actor has taken to the stage to play the masked man.
Miguel Bernardeau was the last to play Don Diego de la Vega in Zorro, the Prime Video production that La 1 de Televisión Española premiered openly last Sunday. The Valencian actor attended the Cadena SER program La Ventana, presented by Carles Francino, to review some of the most notable details of the production. A peculiarity that jumped out right off the bat were the complications he had to go through.
“Of course, I learned that the beautiful thing about this process is that I also had to learn how to make a sword, a whip, and how to ride a horse. Then the relationship with my horse was something very important for me,” explained Bernardeau, especially indicating his tasks with the whip and the ease that having a double for action scenes meant. “I was always pretty good at the whip,” the interpreter explained during the interview.
“I have a double that everything you see that is paranormal, he does. That is, the somersault parallel to the ground while spinning… and I also learned very quickly that he must do it. First because of the damage and then because it looks better. And he is in a f***ing state because that is who he is,” added the Valencian. Despite having enjoyed the experience, there were also days where not everything went as expected, for example trying to blow out the candle.
Despite his success, another of the big topics of conversation that the actor has had to talk about was his breakup with Aitana, which still resonates after four years of relationship and the Catalan recently broke up with Sebastián Yatra. The protagonist of Zorro confessed in an interview with Esquire that he had “gone down to hell,” and that it was after a day whale watching in the Indian Ocean that he was able to reconnect with himself.
“I remember going down to about 25 meters deep and the whale’s daughter and I were alone, she was moving. I looked into one of her eyes, she looked at me and her look was panicked. I came out of the water crying. There you learn, and I know this has been said a lot, that you are less important than you think. I spent the hour back in the car after being with the whale crying my eyes out. It was an emotional moment in which I was very sensitive. There I found what was happening to me,” she said.
