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Well Halleloo! Antonio Banderas owes his life to a drag queen<\/b><\/p>\n

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Antonio Banderas in \u2018Pain and Glory\u2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spanish hunk and actor Antonio Banderas<\/a> has made a startling revelation: he once had his life saved by a drag queen after a motor accident.<\/p>\n

Banderas made the admission while promoting his new film\u00a0Pain and Glory<\/em> from gay<\/a> director Pedro Almodovar<\/a>. According to the actor, he suffered a major accident while riding a motorcycle in 1976. \u201cThe front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch and, boom! I hit a car and my head hit the tank,\u201d he recalled to\u00a0The Independent<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Pedro\u2019s Spain: 8 of Almod\u00f3var\u2019s Most Iconic Film Locations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As Banderas lay bleeding and dazed in the ditch, he looked up to see a drag queen\u2013dressed in a full on gown and wig\u2013pull off the road. She helped him to her car and drove him to a nearby hospital where doctors tended to his wounds and saved his life.<\/p>\n

Banderas recalled the story as part of expressing his affinity and comfort in playing gay<\/a> characters\u2013something which he has done for most of his long career, even at a time when that could have meant professional death for an actor. Pain and Glory<\/em> finds him playing a gay<\/a> character again, a role based his close friend and frequent collaborator Almodovar.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I] always tried to be very respectful to the gay<\/a> community,\u201d Banderas says of playing gay<\/a> roles. \u201cI\u2019m an actor. I just play the character and try to believe them completely when I\u2019m doing them. I try not to perform them; I try to live<\/a> them. But, you know, I\u2019m not Zorro, either. I have never been heroic. I run away!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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