I saw Kenneth Branagh in Barcelona!

A couple of weeks ago, maybe three, I saw Kenneth Branagh in front of Deutsche Bank in Barcelona. I was going down from work to catch my train and he and his wife were walking along the Diagonal on the lateral sidewalk. We passed by just in front of the DB. I was quite astonished by his presence. Looked directly upon his eyes and bowed my head slightly. I didn't want to bother him.


He was probably staying at a famous hotel not quite far from the point where we met. He's been one of my favourite actors since I first saw him and his former wife, Emma Thompson, in Too Much Ado about Nothing. I've always unfruitfully tried to wear as well trimmed a beard as he in this movie. The funny things about this movie is that there is a character with my very surname, which happens to sound gross in English, played by Ben Elton, writer of The Black Adder, and that the real Don Pedro (Denzel Washington) is in fact Peter The Great, King of Aragon, burried in Santes Creus, just by my father's village. Nice coincidences!

By the way, his hair is a little longer now than in the picture.