Antonio Banderas has been asked before to step into the shoes of the iconic artist Pablo Picasso. He told The Hollywood Reporter that the project Genius:Picasso with National Geographic finally felt right.
“I suppose that I needed more experience. I needed to also get rid of certain fears I had to play a man that was born in my hometown, and there was a sense of responsibility attached, of the possibility of playing him,” he explains. “So I thought, ‘Okay. It’s now or never.