Antonio Banderas says playing Puss in Boots in Shrek films ‘destroyed’ his vocal cords

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“At the time I was on Broadway singing every night and had to do sessions for Puss in the morning. And because Puss is very loud, it just destroyed my vocal cords.

And this time, the same thing happened! I was doing a musical here in Spain,” he added in the latest issue of Radio Times.Last year, Antonio opened up about the life-changing hard attack he suffered in 2017, which led him to a “very dramatic” hospital dash.Speaking about the ordeal last year, Antonio said he only survived because his wife had bought strong aspirin tablets the day before.Despite his close brush with death, the actor opened up about the event years later and described the experience as positive, overall.The Mask of Zorro actor told Forbes: “It’s one of the best things that’s happened in my life,“It opened my eyes to understand myself better, to understand my role in life, and to just realise the things that are really important.“There’s a bunch of stupidities that I considered important before that just disappeared, that just sunk.Something changed.”The actor even suggested that the events would change his acting style in a previous interview.“You know, the food for an actor is life,” Antonio told Entertainment Tonight while at the Hollywood Awards in 2019. “Obviously, this event was very dramatic when it was happening.