Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas has
described homophobes as “sick.”
The 53-year-old Banderas, who is best
known for playing Zorro in The Mask of Zorro and portraying
the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise and Puss
in Boots, made his comments in a wide-ranging interview with
Peru's
Canal N.
In discussing Director Pedro
Almodovar's 1987 film Law of Desire (La Ley Del Deseo),
in which he plays a gay man obsessed with a man he cannot have,
Banderas said he was struck by how audiences accepted the film's
murder plot but were outraged at seeing two men kiss.
“The murder was fine, its something
accepted from an artistic point of view,” Banderas said. “But
two people of the same sex kissing on screen generated a wave of
contradictions at the time.”
Gay people “do not appear to me to be
sick, absolutely,” he later added. “Those who judge gay couples
in an intolerant way, they seem to me to be much more sick.”
(Related: Antonio
Banderas: “Absolutely” in favor of gay marriage.)