Antonio Banderas, a strong message on the day he turns 65. “The 2017 heart attack has changed my life”
Antonio Banderas and his life partner Nicole Kimpel at a gala in Sprania, June 2025. Photo source: KMJ / Gtes / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas said in an interview published on Sunday, on the occasion of his birthday, that he is not going to slow down now that he has turned 65.
“When I was 20, I thought that 65-year-olds were going with the cane,” Banderas said, known for his roles in films such as “Zorro's mask”, “Desperado” and “Philadelphia”, in an interview with the Spanish El País, quoted by News.ro.
“At that time, at the age of 65 you retire. Now it is not – now it happens later.”
“Maybe I do things I shouldn't do,” added the actor who suffered a heart attack in 2017. “But doctors don't tell me nothing. They say I'm fine, I should do what I want.”
The actor said he had recently started musical theory courses and bought a piano.
“I think I would be one of those people who die if they stop. And I do what I like; it was the luck of my life,” he said.
Banderas, who started playing in the 1980s, said he was busy with the management of the theater he opened in 2019 in his native city Malaga, in the south of Spain.
He spent some of his summer in Boston shooting a biography of the legendary chef Anthony Bourdain, entitled “Tony”, and then traveled to the Canary Islands in Spain to work at a thriller “Above and Below”.
