Another creative duo to hit the screens this year is actor Antonio Banderas in director Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory. ‘Part biopic, part bizarre personality fusion’, it features Banderas playing a Spanish film-maker looking back on his life. Their famously tempestuous creative partnership has brought them together in eight films over the past three decades.
Banderas, born 10 August 1960 9pm Malaga, Spain, is in the enviable position of having one foot in successful Hollywood movies and the other firmly planted in Spain, doing art house. He was married to Melanie Griffiths but they divorced in 2015.
He has a hard-working 6th house Sun Uranus in entertaining Leo trine a lucky, talented Jupiter in his 10th. Just as significantly he has a Yod onto apex planet filmic Neptune in the 8th house, allowing him to project a powerful aura, from a Moon sextile Mars – he was clearly always destined to be a breakout star. He has an ultra-determined and charming Pluto Venus in Virgo square Mars and trine Saturn, so is highly disciplined and not one to give way easily.
Pedro Almodovar, 25 September 1949, is a maverick, innovative Sun Libra square Uranus, with a hard-working Saturn in Virgo; and a megaton Mars Pluto in Leo square Venus and Moon in Scorpio – passionate, high-energy and a steam roller when it comes to getting what he wants.
His Mars Pluto is conjunct Banderas’ Sun and Uranus so no surprises that sparks fly at times. But their relationship chart is well knit together with a Half Grand Sextile from a composite high-enthusiasm Mars opposition Jupiter which is sextile/trine Saturn as well as Sun Mercury. And there may be a composite T Square of Moon Uranus onto Neptune. Banderas caught Almodovar’s eye when in his early twenties and just starting out and they have worked together on and off since.