Antonio Banderas Says He Owes His Life To A Drag Queen

In a recent interview in the Independent the Spanish actor, promoting his new film written and directed by his long-time collaborator Pedro Almodóvar, talks about how a drag queen saved his life.

“It was 1976. And the front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch and, boom! I hit a car and my head hit the tank. Bam! Then this person” - described as a drag queen with a wig and dress - “who was working a corner for clients, came from nowhere, got in the middle of the road and stopped a car to take me to hospital.”

In the new film he stars in ‘Pain And Glory’ Banderas plays a gay film director marking another gay character role he has played in his career. He has played gay characters in the movies ‘Law of Desire’ and ‘Philadelphia’.

About playing LGBT+ roles Banderas says: “I’ve played gay characters for a long time and have always tried to be very respectful to the gay community. I’m an actor. I just play the character and try to believe them completely when I’m doing them. I try not to perform them; I try to live them. But, you know, I’m not Zorro, either. I have never been heroic. I run away!”.

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