Melbourne
(ANI):
Shrek
star
Antonio
Banderas
doesn't
consider
himself
a
sex
symbol.
"I
don't
believe
it.
Come
on!" The
Daily
Telegraph
quoted
Banderas
as
saying
during
an
interview
at
a
Beverly
Hills
hotel.
"When
you
get
to
my
age
and
look
in
the
mirror,
how
can
you
think
that?
I
don't
believe
in
those
labels.
There
are
a
lot
more
guys
more
handsome
than
me.
All
that
stuff
is
just
a
game."
Banderas,
who
turns
50
this
year,
came
back
as
Puss-in-Boots
for
his
latest
animation
flick
Shrek
Forever
After.
Puss
is
getting
his
own
spin-off
franchise,
with
work
on
the
Puss
in
Boots
animated
film
underway
and
a
release
date
slated
for
November
next
year.
"It
is
a
slightly
different
style
to
Shrek," Banderas
reveals
about
the
Puss
movie.
He
added:
"It
is
like
a
spaghetti
western.
It
is
almost
like
a
Quentin
Tarantino
movie.
It's
fun
and
kind
of
emotional.
In
the
beginning
you
see
Puss
in
Boots
when
he
was
a
-
I
was
going
to
say
a
kid,
but
he's
not
a
kid
right.
He's
a
kitty.
So
we
see
him
in
an
orphanage
and
the
events
which
make
him
Puss
in
Boots."
Banderas
takes
his
role
as
Puss
as
serious
as
any
of
his
other
on
camera
roles,
and
it
was
the
Spanish
actor
who
decided
early
on
the
feline
should
have
a
booming
voice.
"When
I
saw
Puss
the
first
time
it
was
a
still
picture,"
Banderas
recalls
the
first
meetings
with
DreamWorks
animators.
He
added:
"I
asked
what
was
the
relation
in
size
of
Puss
to
the
other
characters.
They
explained
Puss
was
very
little
and
not
as
big
as
Donkey
or
Shrek.
I
said
OK,
I'll
give
him
a
big
voice
because
I
can
find
comedy
in
that
big
voice
in
a
little
body."
Banderas
believes
the
reason
behind
the
success
of
the
family
blockbuster
is
its
intelligence.
Giving
his
13-year-old
daughter
Stella
as
an
example,
he
says,
“Stella
is
very
selective
in
what
she
watches
and
reads,
but
she
loved
Shrek
because
it
was
very
intelligent."