You have to make it look real, but it just isn’t. I’m really hoping that’s true.ĭoing a sex scene with Angelina Jolie was the same as doing a scene where I have to fall off a horse. I read somewhere that the sixties are the new forties. I can’t read at night now without my glasses and I love them because I think they give me a certain dignified look.
Wrinkles to me are like medals and I think getting old is great. Ever since Melanie and I have been together, she hasn’t had surgery.
It would have been like getting into bed with a sick woman.Īgeing is seen as such a bad thing, and that is so wrong. They were so skinny, I couldn’t believe it. I wouldn’t have got into bed with fashion models for all the money in the world. She was kind of p***ed off, to say the least. I remember going to bed with one woman, leaving her house, going to the same bar the next day and hitting on a woman… not realising she was the same woman I’d slept with the night before. Wow! It was fantastic! The Eighties was a crazy time. But I didn’t realise how popular I was until I made a couple of films and moved to Madrid.
Once I stopped being scared of women, I was pretty popular with them. But I’ve always been clear when I’ve had no feelings for them. In general, I’ve been sweet with women and a gentleman. It wasn’t a terrifying experience and it was very easy because we didn’t love each other at all. The first time I had sex I was 18, so I wasn’t that young, and she was slightly older than me. I’d shake all over, I was so scared of my feelings. Women made such an impression on me I almost had to keep my distance from them out of fear and if I fell in love, well, that would be it. I was very young they terrified me – but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them. What makes me happier is that Donkey isn’t going to get his own film… When I first arrived in America, I couldn’t speak a word of English, yet now I’m being called on to work on films like Shrek just for my voice.Īnd now Puss is going to get his own film, too. Normally when we’re voicing our characters we don’t get to see each other we record the voices on our own, which is probably for the best because we’d just end up having too much fun. Eddie and I got to record a version of the Sly And The Family Stone hit, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again), which was great fun. He can’t believe he’s trapped in such a body. His personality is just a little bit off, which I love, and in this film, because of a magic spell, he gets to swap bodies with Donkey which, needless to say, he’s not too pleased about. We haven’t had a screening of Shrek The Third yet, which is probably just as well, as this time we may have to kiss… I reached over to grab Cameron’s hand, found one, then realised it belonged to Justin – but I held on to it anyway.Ĭameron just looked at the pair of us as though we were crazy. There were people – even some who work in films – with a few tears in their eyes. None of us had actually seen the completed film and it came as a real surprise as to how moving it was. I was sitting next to Cameron Diaz, and Justin was on the other side of her. It was at the screening of Shrek Two at the Cannes Festival three years ago. I once became so emotional, I had to hold Justin Timberlake’s hand for comfort. Now 46, Banderas has his second outing as the charismatic Puss In Boots in the forthcoming movie Shrek The Third. The couple divide their time between homes in LA and New York, with their ten-year-old daughter Stella and Griffith’s two children from her previous marriages, Alexander, 22 and Dakota, 17. He grew up in Malaga, Spain, and moved to Hollywood in 1982, and has been married to actress Melanie Griffith for 12 years. Who’s the better swordsman? Puss In Boots, who steals Shrek’s thunder so effectively he’s getting his own movie – or his voiceover man, Hollywood’s legendary Don Juan?Īntonio Banderas has played Tom Hanks’s lover in Philadelphia, a blood-sucker in the Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt feature Interview With The Vampire, a gun-and-guitar-toting hitman in Desperado and, perhaps most famously, the lead role in The Mask Of Zorro, opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones.