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Antonio Banderas Does Not Play Along When New Yorker Writer Imagines Trump as Dictator

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Antonio Banderas Does Not Play Along When New Yorker Writer Imagines Trump as Dictator YouTube Screenshot Does every interview need to include a ritual denunciation of Donald Trump? New Yorker writer Helen Rosner interviewed Spanish actor Antonio Banderas about his role in the upcoming biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, as you can see in "Antonio Banderas’s Acts of Faith." First Rosner praises Banderas for his outstanding performance in that film, as "Tony": The movie—which comes out August 7th—is a star turn for Dominic Sessa, who plays the young Tony with adenoidal swagger. But the most extraordinary thing on the screen is Antonio Banderas, who delivers an astonishing, devastating performance as the proprietor of the restaurant where Bourdain finds work, and on whose porch Tony ends up sleeping for the summer.... Banderas has been, for well over thirty years now, one of our most bombastic, most movie-star movie stars, whether he’s brandishing a period-accurate rapier or succumbi

First report: Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 9-15 includes Antonio Banderas and Hoda Kotb — independent.co.uk, 8d