Antonio Banderas

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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You may know him as Zorro, or as a very Zorro-like cat from the Shrek universe: Puss in Boots. It's Antonio Banderas! He talks with us about reconnecting with, and then portraying his friend and collaborator Pedro Almodóvar. Plus, he talks about how his acting experience in Hollywood did not, for the lack of a better term, translate to acting in Spanish films.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:35.6	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. Next up this week is Antonio Banderas, the award-winning actor,
0:42.5	who is frankly one of the most versatile, charming, handsome performers out there today.
0:48.4	You've probably seen him in Zorro or Philadelphia or Desperado. You've heard him in Shrek.
0:53.6	He played the voice of Pussin' Boots.
0:56.2	Man, I'll tell you what, if you didn't see that most recent Pousin' Boots movie, I thought it was really good, and I'm not a Shrek guy.
1:03.0	Or maybe you've seen him in his latest film, Paddington in Peru.
1:07.6	He plays a treasure hunter named Hunter.
1:10.9	What a handsome boat.
1:14.5	Capitan Hunter Cabot at your service.
1:17.1	Oh, Paddington Brown.
1:18.5	Smooth, strong, easy on the eye, and that's just the boat.
1:26.4	Ypres. Yalla! When Bandera When Banderas and I talked in 2019, he'd just taken on a very different role,
1:35.8	one that he said was amongst his most challenging.
1:38.8	His friend and frequent collaborator, director Pedro Almodovar, had a new script called
1:43.1	Pain and Glory. It's about a guy
1:45.4	named Salvador Mayo. That's Bandaris's character. Characters are director. He made a handful of
1:51.6	well-regarded sex comedies in the 80s. He has a nice apartment in Madrid, and he's stuck.
1:58.0	He isn't really making movies anymore. He hardly has the drive to go out. He's crippled
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