Spanish film star Antonio Banderas said in an interview published Sunday for his birthday that he has no plans to slow down now that he has reached 65.<\/p>\n
“When I was 20, I thought that 65-year-olds walked with a cane,” said Banderas, known for roles in films such as The Mask of Zorro, Desperado and Philadelphia, in an interview with the Spanish daily El Pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n
“Back then, at 65 you retired. Not anymore – now it’s later.”<\/p>\n
“Maybe I’m doing things I shouldn’t be doing,” added Banderas, who suffered a heart attack in 2017. “But the doctors don’t say anything to me. They say I’m fine, that I should do whatever I want.”<\/p>\n
The actor said he has recently started music theory classes and bought himself a piano.<\/p>\n
“I think I’d be one of those people who die if they stop. And I work at what I love; it’s been the luck of my life,” he said.<\/p>\n
Banderas, who began acting in the 1980s, said he remains busy running the theater he opened in 2019 in his hometown of Malaga, in southern Spain.<\/p>\n
He spent part of the summer in Boston filming a biopic of legendary chef Anthony Bourdain, titled Tony, and then traveled to Spain’s Canary Islands to work on a thriller Above and Below.<\/p>\n
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