Interview …
WHEN YOU HAVE A HEART ATTACK, YOU SEE THE FACE OF DEATH A
ntonio Banderas suffered a
stories. Everything else, like the
Jacinta – an interpretation of
heart attack two years ago.
car that I was going to buy, goes
Almodóvar’s mother in her
The Spanish actor says
out the window. It’s like, ‘I don’t
younger days. Banderas also
the major health scare has had a
need a new car!’”
profound effect on his life. He recounts, “I remember having
stars later this year alongside
Banderas was at the
Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman in
recent Cannes Film
Steven Soderbergh’s new movie
Festival 2019 for the
The Laundromat. Here, Antonio talks about
the heart attack and
premiere of his latest
thinking, ‘Really?
film Pain and Glory.
his latest projects, his first
I’m going to finish
The movie marks
encounter with fellow Spaniard
like this?’ And when
the eighth time that
Pedro Almodóvar and what it
I got out of there, I
Banderas has worked
was like to play a version of the
said, ‘Ah no, I have to
with director Pedro
really, really go for the
Almodóvar. Pain and
important things.’
Glory traces the decline
“And the really important things are my daughter, my friends and my profession, what I love to do, which is acting and telling
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SILVER DIGEST // SPRING 2019
of a celebrated film director Actors Stella Banderas and Antonio Banderas in Hollywood, California, for the Centerpiece Gala Premiere of Alcon Entertainment's The 33 on November 9, 2015
great director on screen. He also talks about his recent TV role playing Pablo Picasso in Genius, his relationship to Malaga, the
[played by Banderas] and is
hometown that they both share,
loosely based on Almodóvar’s
and how he is investing in young
own life. Penelope Cruz plays
actors in his city.
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