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Málaga (EFE).- A few years before Sharon Stone rose to world fame thanks to ‘Basic Instinct’ (1992), she filmed ‘Blood and Sand’ in Spain. One of the props of that film has kept a cape signed by the American actress for 35 years, whom he found “charming” and “very funny.”
The actor and singer José Ricardo Truchado, currently 61 years old, was in his twenties when he worked as a prop in this film directed by Javier Elorrieta, which narrates the dilemma of a bullfighter of humble origins (Christopher Rydell) divided between his love for his wife (Ana Torrent) and a rich rancher (Sharon Stone) with whom he has a passionate relationship.
Sharon Stone had already filmed ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ or ‘Police Academy’, but “she was not that famous”, since she received recognition with ‘Total Challenge’ (1990) and ‘Basic Instinct (1992), both directed by Paul Verhoeven. During the recording of ‘Sangre y arena’, entirely in English, Truchado assures EFE that he made a “good friendship” with the actress, with whom the treatment was “very friendly and close.”
“At work everything was very serious” but later he affirms that the interpreter (Pennsylvania, 1958) always “looked for him to go for a walk” around the city. In Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), the two of them and a translator went to a nightclub outside the hotel: Sharon “she was nice and dancing, very fun,” she recalls.
A collector’s item
When there was little time left to finish filming, Truchado, now living in Marbella (Málaga), asked Pedro Palomo, a semi-retired bullfighter who served as a bullfighting advisor, to sell him a cape used in the film, which was signed by Sharon Stone, Javier Elorrieta and other colleagues from the technical team.
Son of the Spanish film actor, producer and screenwriter José Truchado, José Ricardo has spent his entire life in the world of entertainment, where he also carried out production and direction work.
Although he stopped working behind the cameras three decades ago, he has “kept the cape all these years.” Now, “a little physically and financially annoyed,” he has decided to put it up for auction on the Malaga portal Todocoleccion.net.
Although it lacks a certificate of authenticity, has “some blood stains” and is “a little discolored in one area,” the cape signed by the ‘Blood and Sand’ team is generally in good condition. The starting price of the bidding in this collecting market is 300 euros, although “the logical thing” is for someone to pay more, he confesses.
The cape may interest both followers of the artist, one of the sexual icons of the 90s, and movie buffs or fans of the world of bullfighting.
In the photos on the Todocoleccion portal you can see in the central part of the yellow lining the words ‘Blood and sand’, the English name of the film, along with the date September 1988 and more than twenty signatures, including the autograph of Sharon Stone with two hearts and a star.
The footprint of bullfighting
This filming, in which Truchado also coincided with Antonio Flores (1961-1995), allowed him for the first time to see a fighting bull up close and understand the world of bullfighting. It seems that he also left his mark on Sharon Stone, who many years later publicly defended bullfighting in an interview.
“I love bulls. They are part of the historical culture and also part of the symbols of the country, so there is an aspect of the bulls that is the poetry of Spain,” the actress responded in 2012 to presenter Jorge Javier Vázquez on Telecinco.
Truchado, who has recently had leading roles in musicals such as ‘The Doctor’ or ‘Man of La Mancha’, did not remain in contact with Sharon Stone after the filming of ‘Blood and Sand’, but he keeps some anecdotes from the filming in his memory. in Madrid, Seville or Jerez.
The powdered milk trick
In one scene of the film, the rich and beautiful Sol (Stone) had to appear snorting some lines of cocaine. To do this, Truchado asked the actress how they prepared it and she told him that in another film that she had participated in, they had simulated the doses with infant milk powder.
Getting to work, the performer prepared the stripes, which made them joke about the heat and humidity that it was at that time, since the milk could liquefy: “I thought a little white drop was going to fall down his face.” nose”.
Another comical moment occurred when he was holding a horse with one hand and she was sitting about two meters away watching them both. He told the actress: “The horse does what I want,” and while he looked out of the corner of his eye he moved his head to the side or tapped his foot on the ground as the animal made similar movements.
“She was laughing” with laughter, he says. Resentful of the treatment by the team
One day the artist was found sitting on a stump waiting, “resentful” at the treatment of the production team, since the driver had left her there and left. “I took a chair out of the truck for her” because in many places there was no caravan, remembers Truchado, who points out that she had not yet established herself as an actress and “the treatment was not exactly that of a star.”
He insists that she “wasn’t at all rude” and found her “very kind and friendly,” although he had previously worked with American artists and spoke English well, something that not the entire team did.
As ‘props’ he had “a truck full of things”, many linked to bullfighting, such as crutches, banderillas and “some bull ears that they wanted to be real and had to be disinfected because they filled with flies”, which he admits was ” a nuisance.”
Although it “hurts” him to let go of the cape, this former performer who acts as an actor as well as a singer or announcer still has the memory of having shared experiences with Sharon Stone herself. EFE
