Antonio Banderas had "no idea" Madonna had a crush on him.
The ‘Laundromat’ actor admitted he thought someone was playing a prank on him in the 1990s when the ‘Hung Up’ singer called him about her docufiction film, ‘Madonna: Truth or Dare’ – in which she discussed at length her attraction to the Spanish star and her failed attempts to get together with him – because he wasn’t expecting it.
Asked on ‘The Jess Cagle Show’ about his appearance in the documentary, he said: "I had no idea.
"I was finishing The Mambo Kings here in Los Angeles, and she called me one morning. I thought someone was just making a joke at me.
"Because I picked up my phone in my hotel room and it was Madonna. I couldn’t believe it.
"She said, ‘Listen, I want to show you this documentary that you are in.’ And I said, ‘What? What documentary? What are you talking about?’ "
The 59-year-old actor – who was married to Ana Leza at the time – admitted Madonna went on to offer to remove him from the documentary but he joked he liked how it made him look.
He continued: "She was really honest, if you don’t want to be there, I will take you out."
And when the host joked he wanted it to be kept in because it made him look like "the heartthrob of the decade", he added: "Kind of. I said, ‘Yeah that’s fine you can use me.’ "
Madonna – who starred with Antonio in ‘Evita’ in 1996 – previously admitted she "wished" she’d got together with the ‘Desperado’ actor but he was always with second wife Melanie Griffith when they were working together.
Asked if they’d hooked up, she said: "I wished… I had a big crush on him [but] he was with Melanie Griffith. She never left his side."
Antonio Banderas clueless about Madonna crush
