Antonio Banderas’ reflection in

• JF Borrell

  Madrid

Updated 04/08/2025 – 00: 37CEST

‘El Hormiguero ‘ He has started on Monday the week with the actor’s visit Antonio Banderaswho has spoken with Pablo Motos of the success of ‘Gypsy’the musical that directs and produces and has been extended in the Apollo Theater in Madrid to him May 25. The musical meets 150 functions Since he premiered in Malaga in the past autumn.

‘Gypsy’ continues in Madrid until May 25

After welcoming and greeting Antonio Banderas, Pablo Motos has started the interview questioning the guest for how many things can go wrong in a musical like ‘Gypsy’. “There are many ingredients and many things can go wrong. And in ‘Gypsy’ we have many possibilities that this happens, because we have a rotating stage, we have curtains that fly according to the temperatures on stage, we have 30 microphones on the scene, 23 microphones in the orchestra … There are many chances that things are not going well, but that is why we have some technicians, naturally apart from the actors and musicians, first category so that everything goes as it has to go. Sometimes errors occur, but that is also the greatness of live theater. Live theater has that difficulty and that kind of emotion that is taking place in the absolute live, “said the Andalusian.

Antonio Banderas’ insecurity before each function

The Malaga has admitted that despite his experience, he continues to attack insecurity before each function. “When I am as an actor, always. Every time I am going to enter the stage, my hand trembles. Now, as director, what I do is carry a librettite in which I am noting small things that I see on the stage I can correct. From the premiere of ‘Gypsy’ to the second week of representations in Malaga, I could take 16 minutes the first act that did not work for me. That is, I am correcting as I also see the reactions of the public, things that work on stage, things that do not work … What the theater people say sometimes ‘I have already finished my work, now the public is who belongs’, no. I stay there, I keep correcting and I still think that there may be a ‘gypsy 2.0“Antonio Banderas stressed, who has confessed that after 150 representations of ‘Gypsy’ he continues to make corrections and modifications.

The requirements to be a good director

Pablo Motos wanted to meet if a good director also has to be a good psychologist. “I don’t know if a good psychologist, but a personalities connoisseur. And more in a work like ‘Gypsy’, where we are working on the idea of ​​a character that actually represents a woman who suffers a pathology, Not even for success, but for the attraction that the stage produces, the scene, an imagined world that she cannot live in her normal life. And then, you have to press all the cables because It produces many collateral damage around him, among which are his two daughters, to which he submits, because she cannot be the actress, the singer who wanted to be and works with her daughters so that they fulfill the dream that she could never fulfill“Antonio Banderas explained.”The second act of the musical is the part that interests me more from the theatrical point of view because that is where the depths really enter and be mocked in the complexities of the characters, the relationships between them, Among the death of a world, the world of vaodevil that is dying and another appears … There is a main theme and then there are a number of sub -themes that are exploited within the work“The director of ‘Gypsy’ added, which has revealed that the musical is based on a real story.

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The only thing with what Antonio Banderas does not bore

Antonio Banderas is immersed, in addition to ‘Gypsy’, in various short, medium and long term projects. The ‘El Hormiguero’ driver has been curious to know if he has time for boredom. “The only thing that does not really bore me is nature. Nature never bores me. Although nature, in reality, is a dictatorship, there is nothing democratic in nature. Nature is absolutely cruel. No one has asked to be born, nobody has asked to be human or eagle or cell or plant or rock … No one has asked for anything. And the end of the film is also imposed and is a tragedy. Life’s own film is a tragedy because in the end we all die. Therefore, there is nothing democratic in nature. Nature is a dictatorship“The first guest of the week has stressed to conclude.

Antonio Banderas is sincere with trancas and ravines