Antonio Banderas 'They think i'll always be the bad guy'

Antonio Banderas is relishing the chance to stick it to the doubters who wrote him off as a bad guy.

The Spanish movie heartthrob says he was typecast as a baddie due to his looks and accent when he first came to Hollywood but has made a point of making it as a good guy on screen.

“When I first came to America, 21 years ago, I did the movie The Mambo Kings, somebody on the set said to me, ‘If you are going to stay here, basically you’re going to play bad characters. You are going to be the bad guy in movies’. In these 21 years everything changed very much,” he said.

“In ways it’s a reflection of what is happening in society. I think it’s good for diversity, for cultural interaction, because now people don’t judge in those terms. People watch the movie and they see that their heroes have strong accents and that is good.”