Antonio Banderas

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q41548: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Matador (1986); Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991); Philadelphia (1993); Desperado (1995); The Mask of Zorro (1998); The 13th Warrior (1999); Haywire (2011); Pain and Glory (2019); Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023); Babygirl (2024); Assassins; Dolittle; Ecks vs. Sever; Evita; Femme Fatale; Mambo Kings; Nine (Broadway revival); Original Sin; Shrek 2; Take the Lead; The Expendables; The Skin I Live In; The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie / sequel (second SpongeBob film); Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!; Uncharted; Zorro (The Mask of Zorro).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Basic Instinct (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Babygirl (2024), which they acted in: Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode). Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist.
    “I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

Beowulf adaptations: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The 13th Warrior (1999), which they acted in: Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read). The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version.
    “Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Babygirl (2024), which they acted in: Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read). The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

George Michael: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Babygirl (2024), which they acted in: George Michael ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode). Reijn chose Father Figure before writing: a younger man acting fatherly over an older woman with the power.
    “I thought, 0 my god, father figure has all these elements, and if you play that, under a scene where this younger man acts fatherly over this older woman that has all the power, that could be so interesting.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:33:19 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

Michael Crichton: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The 13th Warrior (1999), which they acted in: Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read). Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene.
    “reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85 sure it was them)

Raul Julia: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Raul Julia ⇒ Antonio Banderas (the host's read). Banderas took the torch from Raul Julia as the pint-sized, can-do-anything actor and sex symbol.
    “Antonio Banderas does kind of have, he does kind of take the torch from Raul Julia”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Killer (2023): 1 line

  1. people (casting origin) · through Haywire (2011), which they acted in: Haywire ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening). Fincher cited Haywire, with Prometheus, as the Fassbender movies that made him cast him.
    “He said it was Prometheus and Haywire, which makes sense.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:17:06 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (31) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! → Antonio Banderas. Last Banderas movie before Hollywood and Mambo Kings.
    “basically the last movie that Antonio Vanderas made before making the leap to Hollywood with Mambo Kings”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Antonio Banderas → Shrek 2. Shrek 2 is where audiences suddenly claimed to have always loved Banderas despite his flops.
    “When Shrek 2 comes out, people are like, oh, of course, we all love Antonio Manderas.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Antonio Banderas → Nine (Broadway revival). Banderas's Broadway Nine revival restored his standing after the string of flops.
    “he does 9 on Broadway and everyone's like, oh, fuck, this guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:13:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Antonio Banderas → The Expendables. Banderas fits in The Expendables but is not thought of as a Lundgren or Van Damme type.
    “when he's in the Expendables, it's like, yeah, he belongs here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:14:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Antonio Banderas → The 13th Warrior. Banderas is miscast in a realism-minded role: the film tamps down his flamboyance and musicality.
    “I think this movie's aiming for sort of realism that hurts him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:48:51 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Antonio Banderas → Raul Julia. Banderas took the torch from Raul Julia as the pint-sized, can-do-anything actor and sex symbol.
    “Antonio Banderas does kind of have, he does kind of take the torch from Raul Julia”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Almodovar → Antonio Banderas. Another auteur-star pair that got big on different tracks.
    “Almodovar and Fanderas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:36:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Pain and Glory → Antonio Banderas. Banderas's nomination made the speaker want to rewatch Pain and Glory.
    “made me want to watch it again, seeing him get recognized here.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:14:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Antonio Banderas → Pedro Almodovar. Almodovar's use of Banderas is what shows his range; Banderas can do heightened and emotional.
    “he does like this guy I live in, which is like very heightened.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (same type of part): Antonio Banderas → Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Banderas has a similar short role to his Haywire part.
    “he has a very similar role in Indiana Jones”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:32:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Antonio Banderas → Taron Egerton. Banderas's nomination is preferred over Egerton, who ran a great campaign.
    “with all respect to Taron Egerton, who ran a great campaign.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:14:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Antonio Banderas → Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Banderas can show up in a role and register as nothing, as in Dial of Destiny and Uncharted.
    “for a guy who was one of my favorite living actors, it is kind of astounding how he can also just give you nothing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:47:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Antonio Banderas → Pain and Glory. Banderas is Griffin's best actor winner; he saw an early screening and cats trailer dropped the same day.
    “Banderas, I will always have close to my heart because I saw pain and glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:57:07 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Antonio Banderas: Banderas on the Norse extras: like making a movie with the Los Angeles Lakers.
    “It was like making a movie in the Los Angeles Lakers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:49:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)