A few days ago, Joaqun Torres addressed his Instagram followers with a worrying video. He lay in a hospital bed, with bandages and bandages: he had been hit by a car while leaving the garage with his motorcycle, ending with The pelvis was broken in several places, the forearm was bent, a liver and lung injury. Now an interview that he recorded days before the accident comes to light in which he speaks, completely healthy, about one of the most striking experiences of his career as an architect. The setting was, nothing more and nothing less, the house of Penlope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
It has been in the program Collapse, from TV3. And it referred to the place that the two actors chose to build their family home: a prefabricated villa in San Agustín de Guadalix, in the Madrid urbanization of Valdelagua. The person in charge of designing and managing the construction of the house was Joaqun Torres himself, who remembers those days as nothing short of a work hell.
They think they have the right
According to what he said, the interpreters were obsessed with confidentiality. It’s not that they were demanding, because all clients are demanding. They held me responsible for what was published in their press.reveals Torres, who adds some details of a secrecy that he considers exaggerated: The house had to be emptied so that no one could see them. You can’t be the Oscar-winning actors of this country and not appear anywhere. This is what drove him to exasperation: The construction visits were terrible.
Furthermore, the so-called architect of the famous remembers how capricious they could be with an anecdote. They had chosen a 30 centimeter piece of wood from Porcelanosa. The tone was white, matte, broken, begins his story. And he concludes by saying that everything went wrong due to a change of thought about his own decision: When everything was set, they didn’t think it was right and I told them that the tone was the one they had chosen. All the wood in the house had to be replaced to put in another one.
His criticism emphasizes the attitude that both showed with details such as calls at five in the morning to talk about the work. They think they have the right, that they are doing you a favorcomments.
Rains, it pours
And it is not the first time that he has spoken publicly about what it was like to work for both of them. A few months ago she did the same in Public Mirror, receiving a burofax in his own home from Penlope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
Already then he explained his displeasure. I had a really bad time with them. I was the one who decided not to finish the house for them. It was a very complicated couple. Not because they were demanding, as all clients are.but because they held me responsible for what was in the press about them, for snitching on me, I decided at the same moment in which he made public the message that the actors had dedicated to him. He didn’t shut up then, nor has he shut up now.
