Hollywood star Antonio Banderas has claimed his near-fatal heart attack is the best thing to have happened to him because of the changes he made to his life. The actor, 65, reassessed his life after suffering a medical emergency in 2017 and after walking away from his Hollywood lifestyle to return to his birthplace of Malaga, Spain.

Banderas, who lives with partner Nicole Kimpel, told in an interview, “Mine was a serious warning. It changed the way I look at life. Faced with death, it made me look back and realise that I am, in fact, a theatre actor. I have never been so happy.”