Antonio Banderas opens up about suffering a hert attack: ‘It changed the way I look at life’

Antonio Banderas. Pic/AFP

Hollywood star Antonio Banderas has claimed his near-fatal heart attack is the best thing to have happened to him because of the changes he made to his life. The actor, 65, reassessed his life after suffering a medical emergency in 2017 and after walking away from his Hollywood lifestyle to return to his birthplace of Malaga, Spain.

Banderas, who lives with partner Nicole Kimpel, told in an interview, "Mine was a serious warning. It changed the way I look at life. Faced with death, it made me look back and realise that I am, in fact, a theatre actor. I have never been so happy."

He quipped he is so besotted with theatre that he'll still be there when he dies. He said, "A few months before [my father] died, we were watching the procession of the Holy Sepulchre pass by on the night of Good Friday and suddenly, without looking at me, he said, ‘I think there's nothing after death.' I will come back as a ghost. To haunt my theatre."

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