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It's ugly to talk about money when you've come to talk about glory and fame, but, as the series taught us, fame costs.

Penelope Cruz

excitedly collected the

National Film Award

and, a few minutes after thanking some, remembering others, crying for a few and finally hugging everyone, she announced that she was donating the entire amount of the award and equal shares to three institutions: the

Platform for People Affected by Mortgages, the Fundación Cris Contra El Cancer and the assistance fund created by Pilar Bardem at AISGE,

the actor's rights society.

Remember that the prize is 30,000 euros.

Before receiving the award from the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, his colleague and friends

Goya Toledo and Luis Tosar spoke at the event that took place in the Tabakalera building at mid-morning.

And then she spoke.

Everyone spoke about her in an emphatic, witty, sympathetic, emotional and, at times, pompous way, except her, who spoke about the others.

And in her speech, brief and lucid, she remembered her parents, her representative (who let her into the office when she was just a girl), Pedro Almodóvar, her husband, her children... And, at the remind us that money counts, everyone.

Never before had a winner been heard talk about money and rarely did it seem so timely and, what counts, beautiful.

This really must be the glory.

And the sense of fame a little.

Every step you take, bigger.

The prize he now receives completes in his own way a career that seems to be in full transition.

Recently, at the Venice Festival, it was presented alongside two films:

'L'immensità',

by

Emanuele Crialese,

and

'In the margins',

the directorial debut of

Juan Diego Botto

and which, in part, explains the meaning of the donation: the film is about the injustice of evictions, not exactly about evictions.

The hue matters.

Be that as it may, with this award and this donation, the complete list of winners remains.

An Oscar and three nominations.

Three Goya and 10 other nominations.

An award at Cannes.

A Volpi Cup at the Venice Festival.

A Donostia Award.

An honorary Caesar.

And now the National Award, which from now on is also an Anti-Eviction award.

Penélope Cruz has it all because, probably, she has been everything.

Or almost.

Privilege of the most international Spanish actress from Alcobendas in history, more capable of absolutely everything.

Like Nadal, but in cinema.

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