Antonio Banderas on the Versace Film, Health and Fashion

Antonio Banderas on the Versace Film, Health and Fashion
Georgina Oliver
MÁLAGA — "No more Zorros, for me. No more falling off horses," joked Antonio Banderas, winding up a press conference here held within hours of his receiving a "Golden" trophy at the 20th edition of the Málaga Film Festival. The actor's presence at the Spanish film fest, of which he is the honorary president, had been up in the air following a spate of rumors sparked by his new extra slim, silver-bearded look. "I had become a workaholic," confessed a gaunt Banderas, flaunting an ashen hairdo reminiscent of a bullfighter's bun. Sporting a white Western jacket with gilt buttons à la Versace, from the Antonio Banderas men's wear line, which is spearheaded by minimalistic Nordic brand Selected, the Málaga-born Banderas loosened up before putting the record straight. "No two ways about it: I'm convalescent." After a first heart scare featured in British tabloids last January, he suffered a second attack requiring three-stent surgery in a Swiss clinic. "Nothing dramatic." But the past two months have been a rough ride. Banderas revealed that he plans to "re-boost" in Málaga, having moved into a rooftop apartment overlooking the Plaza de la Merced, where both he and Pablo Picasso grew up. A Carlos Saura Guernica biopic ("33 días") starring

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