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Although Antonio Banderas has led a versatile onscreen career, he knowledgeable taste stereotyping and typecasting early successful his career.
The Oscar nominee precocious recalled being told he could only play “bad guys” owed to Hispanic ethnicity, which is why he’s proud of breaking retired of that container pinch his roles successful nan Zorro and Shrek franchises.
“They said, you are here, for illustration nan blacks and nan Hispanics, to play nan bad guys,” Banderas recalled to The Times. “The problem was a fewer years later I had a mask, hat, beard and cape and nan bad feline was Captain Love, who was blond and had bluish eyes. Even much important is Puss successful Boots, because it’s for young kids. They spot a feline that has a Spanish, moreover an Andalusian accent and he’s a bully guy.”
After Banderas originated nan sound domiciled of nan swashbuckling feline successful Shrek 2 (2004), besides appearing successful Shrek nan Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010), arsenic good arsenic his ain spin-offs Puss successful Boots (2011) and Puss successful Boots: The Last Wish (2022), he said past twelvemonth that he had not yet been invited backmost for Shrek 5, premiering June 30, 2027.
“I’m not truthful far, and I’m not being called for that,” Banderas told Parade. “Puss successful Boots did very well. Number 2 sewage a information for nan Oscar, and nan movie behaved beautifully astatine nan container office. But I americium wholly satisfied pinch nan 5 Puss successful Boots that I did. I don’t cognize what is going to hap successful nan future. Maybe they [will] telephone maine tomorrow.”
The characteristic was influencer by Zorro, whom Banderas besides played successful The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005).
