“Puss in Boots: Dying Wish” star Antonio Banderas, who suffered a heart attack in 2017, recalled walking away from the experience with a new perspective on life during a recent interview with Page Six.
Banderas, who stars in the latest addition to the “Shrek” film franchise, spoke about his outlook after suffering a heart attack that he said was not serious and caused no harm in 2017.
The Puss in Boots star, who reportedly received stents in his arteries following a heart attack, told the publication that the experience was “probably one of the best things” that happened to him in his life.
“I realized that it was probably one of the best things that ever happened in my life, because the things that weren’t important and that I worried about every day were meaningless,” he Banderas said.
“I said to myself, why am I worried about this if I’m about to die? I always knew [that I was going to die], but now I know. I saw it right here.
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Banderas said his friends, family, including his daughter Stella and his “vocation as an actor” remained after the heart attack, while other things he pushed away from things he “thought were important before, but they really weren’t”.
The actor has previously been open about the heart attack over the years and told The Associated Press that director Pedro Almodóvar — with whom he worked on the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated film “Pain and Glory” — told him not to “hide this thing”. “. ” while they were making the movie.
“I knew exactly what he was talking about, because after you have a heart attack you get a lot of information about what life is, which is very difficult to put into words, but it just created a new way of understanding life itself. ,” Banderas told the news service in 2019.
