Overview
- Banderas, in new interviews citing The Times, calls the 2017 heart attack a very serious warning that reset his priorities.
- He left the Hollywood circuit for his hometown, where he lives with partner Nicole Kimpel and now defines himself as a theater actor.
- He runs Teatro del Soho, a nonprofit he built inside a renovated old cinema that, according to reporting, takes no public funds and costs him at least €200,000 a year.
- He changed daily habits after the scare by quitting smoking, selling his private jet, eating less red meat, and running about 10 kilometers every two to three days.
- He has leaned back into local culture through Málaga’s Holy Week processions, large religious parades, and says fellow brotherhood members nickname him “José Hollywood.”