Antonio Banderas is having a hard day at the office: he has just died. He has wrapped one of the last days of shooting in Budapest for Genius: Picasso, the new series in which he plays the Spanish artist. Today, he shot Picasso’s death in 1973 at his hilltop villa in Notre Dame de Vie; the house has been recreated on the outskirts of the Hungarian capital.
The wigs, makeup and prosthetics that transformed him into a 91-year-old have been removed. To become Picasso, his face had to be a blank canvas. His head was shaved, as were his eyebrows. “I’m very tired,” he says, looking like the world’s most glamorous Mr Potato Head. “But being tired is my natural state; I operate and do my life there, in that department.”
