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Antonio Banderas credits drag queen with saving his being
Antonio Banderas revealed that a drag queen saved his life after he got into a motorbike accident in 1976, when he was 16 years old.
“The front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch and, boom! I hit a wagon and my head clap the tank. Bam!” the Spanish actor said in a recent interview with The Independent. “Then this person who was operational a corner for clients came from nowhere, got in the middle of the road and stopped a car to accept me to the hospital.”
Banderas added that there was “blood everywhere” and that his bone underneath the skin was visible. He still has a scar on his calf today, but it could hold been much more tragic if not for the mystery drag queen in a wig and dress who helped him that night.
“The Mask of Zorro” star is currently promoting his latest film “Pain and Glory,” which is written and directed by the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar. Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, a gay motion picture director grappling with professional and medical difficulties, in the Spanish language drama — a performance that earned him the finest actor award at Cannes in May.
This isn’t the first gay character Banderas, who is straight,
Antonio Banderas: Hispanic Gay Masculinities and the Global Mirror Stage (1991-2001)
Abstract
Here I map out the Atlantic intertwining between neo-liberal/neo-imperial Spain and cinema by studying Antonio Banderas's body politics as the postmodern (post- or neoimperialist) Don Juan. Banderas's career trajectory from 1991 to 2001 coincides with larger political and historical developments. He arrived in Hollywood in the early 1990s, a moment when different but interconnected historical events came together— the end of the Cold War and the neo-liberal globalization of the United States with treaties such as NAFTA and GATT; the growing universal profile of the fundamentalist religious right and gays; and the mainstream population's (unwilling) acceptance of Latinos as a differentiated group. Hollywood needed a recent kind of masculinity that gathered in all these new dimensions of Joined States identity while not completely shedding traditional Hollywood male typology, and Banderas fulfilled all the requirements. At the same moment in Banderas Spain acquired a global card of presentation for its unused neoimperialist and Atlantic pursuits in Latin America.
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Antonio Banderas' Opens Up About How Playing Gay Characters Changed Him
— -- From “Philadelphia” and “Zorro” to “Puss in Boots,” Antonio Banderas is full of surprises each time he hits the big screen. Banderas is now playing playing “Super” Mario Sepúlveda, the man who took charge while trapped with 32 other miners in Chile in 2010.
It was a story that had to be relived on screen, Banderas told ABC News of the fresh film “The 33.”
“What we saw on television was more Hollywood than Hollywood,” Banderas said. “If anybody tried to write something like this out of their minds, a fiction movie, nobody would possess believed this. Because the 33 come out alive, it’s a happy finish. It’s very Hollywood. But there were more things down there. … it’s about life and the simplicity of it.”
But unlike this role, some of Banderas’ other more renowned roles were not such easy choices. Banderas, 55, told Peter Travers his greatest challenge came when he first began productive with director Pedro Almodóvar.
“He opened many different places in my brain as a human being, many different doors,” Banderas said. “He taught me many different things about morality. I remember when we w
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