• Penélope Cruz National Film Award for a Spanish icon

The star that the actress Penélope Cruz has on the Walk of Fame in Madrid, on Martín de los Heros street, has woken up this Sunday

destroyed and the letters with her name have disappeared

.

At two in the morning on Sunday, Cruz's star was still in place,

but in the morning it was completely destroyed

and the letters had disappeared, an employee of the Ocho y Medio bookstore, dedicated to the seventh art, confirmed to Efe.

According to the workers of the cinemas that are next to the Walk of Fame, there are many people who

come to take pictures

with the stars and complain about the deterioration in which some of them are.

And it is that it is not the first star of the Madrid Walk of Fame that appears busted, but perhaps the others were not the target of an act of vandalism like this one

but because of the weight of the vehicles that pass over it

.

A week ago, the Ministry of Culture and Sports awarded the

2022 National Film Award

to Penélope Cruz for having "an exceptional career" internationally, which has not prevented her from continuing to maintain "a firm link with Spanish cinema."

Of the 25 stars that the Madrid Walk of Fame had, that of the actress

Carmen Maura had already disappeared a long time ago, and that of the actor

Javier Bardem

, husband of Penélope Cruz, and that of the director

Luis García Berlanga

are partially damaged

.

It was presented in June 2011

The first idea to place the plates came from

Jesús Robles

, one of the owners of the Ocho y Medio store, who died in 2013 as a result of cancer.

"We launched the idea and met several times with the district councilor. The cinemas were across the street, the street had been pedestrianized for a short time. It seemed perfect," said

María Sylveiro,

widow of Jesús and manager of this book store, a job that shared with him for decades, a few days ago to the newspaper 'El País'.

The Film Academy, one of the promoters of the project, chose the names of the

25 slabs

and promised to lengthen the walk every year with one more name, which only happened once, when director Luis Escobar was added.

Asked by the newspaper who was responsible for taking care of this promenade,

Álvaro Ballarín

(PP), a district councilor at the time and today a member of the Madrid Assembly, who was the one who met with Sylveiro and who signed an agreement with the Film Academy to raise the stars, he couldn't remember who he cares about.

"That will be in the document," he said.

But the agreement is nowhere to be found.

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