Any father want the best for his daughter, it includes the best in love. Antonio Banderas who turns 50 this August not worry a bit about his daughter’s love experience.
The Spanish actor tells how mature his daughter, Stella is at her age, “My daughter, at 13 years old, is way more mature than me,” says the proud dad.
Banderas explains more about his daughter and the youngest daughter of his wife, Melanie Griffith, Stella ”
knows exactly what she wants and very selective.”
Still Banderas wish to her daughter to be broken heart, he knows that to feel broken heart is the way to learn better in life. No pain no gain, right?
“Her heart is going to be broken sometimes, and she has to learn from those things too. It’s called ‘life,’ ” he says. “She has to live that herself.”
The actor is quiet close to Stella, which amazed me, he shares some quality time with her daughter, “I have one date night with my daughter every week. I take her for dinner by herself … and we can talk, spend some time together,” he says. “We just try to be dynamic in our relationship to the family and it’s fun too.”
Not only to his daughter, he cares and gives much kind attention to his son, Alexander whose father is Griffith’s second husband, actor Steven Bauer) and to her daughter, Dakota (with Griffith’s former husband, Don Johnson).
“All our kids – Alexander, he’s 24 and living in New York, and Dakota, [20], who is making movies already – they never got caught by that kind of thing of the celebrity stuff,” he says. “Actually, they hated it, as Stella does. I think that’s healthy … they don’t want to play that game.”
Banderas reveals his secret for a healthy, happy, and passionate marriage with Melanie Griffith couple days ago while he launches his new fragrance “The Secret by Antonio Banderas.”
“The secret is to believe. To believe that after a crisis for example, you’re going to get stronger. To be passionate, believe me, is not a bad thing. It is a very underrated virtue. Very.”
“But, it holds big virtues. If you don’t have passion, all of these big virtues fall apart. But, if you do all of this can shine. So, passion with each other.”
Have been marriage for almost fifteen years, he explains that his relationship has gotten better over time.
“You can start reading the other person in a different way. It’s providing you with a totally different pleasure than the beginning of the relationship. People are looking for all the time, the sensation, the pink kind of world, well that changes. But the good news is that it can change for the better.”
The actor who also displayed his first photography exhibition, Secret in Black to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS says about crisis in marriage that every couples have to face and fight together.
“We have been in crisis sometimes and we knew that if just waited to cross that tunnel that we were just in, at the end we were going to be stronger,” he said. “We believed, very much, in each other and we’ve been battling with everything that happens in our lives because at the end we knew there was a reward. And the reward in my case was her.”
“We both were coming from two different relationships that were failures and you learn a lot from that,” he says. “[People] made bets that we weren’t going to last more than six months.”
He’s known among women, he knows how to fulfill the empty side inside women, he can be considered as a master, and he said it’s not as easy as it used to be.
“It’s really difficult to know in our days to know what you have to do to impress a lady. They’re not as impressible as they used to be. Everything’s out there right now. In the old days, there was probably a second factor of behavior, things that you could do. I don’t know. I think the problem is that you have to read them…It’s a very interesting game and very difficult.”
