Los Angeles Film Festival: A Conversation with Antonio Banderas
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
The L.A. Film Festival honored one of their own this week with a special night at the Billy Wilder Theater set aside for co-chair Antonio Banderas.
The conversation, led by actress Elizabeth Pena, covered the actor’s career including working with directors Pedro Almodovar, Robert Rodriguez and his wife Melanie Griffith (who was seated in the audience).
Hollywood.com was in attendance to get you the highlights! Here’s what Banderas had to say …
On theater vs. movies:
“Theater and movies are different to me because in movies you are in the middle of the process. After you give your best work somebody else is going to come in and cut it. There is going to be some music that you didn’t know was going to be there…you aren’t really in control of the process. But in theater you are the process.”
On his wife Melanie:
“I admired my wife before I loved her, as an actress. I saw her while I was still living in Spain. Working Girl … for me Melanie is one of the most important comedy actors of the 80s. I think she is fabulous. When I saw this script [for Crazy in Alabama] there was nobody in my mind except her. It was a pressure to direct her and it is something I would love to do again.”
On his daughter Stella getting into acting:
"I wouldn’t encourage. I would help her as much as I can and advise her as much as I know. I would try but I wouldn’t push her to be an actress…it is a complex profession, which [requires you to] play with yourself. Like if you have an instrument…but you are you. And then you start questioning things about yourself. So it is a very introspective and not everybody is prepared for that. People lose their minds."
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