Antonio Banderas has opened up about the responsibility he felt in taking on the role of one of his heroes, Pablo Picasso, in the second season of National Geographic Channel\u2019s \u2018Genius\u2019 anthology series.<\/p>\n
He told E! he went into the project trying not to fail. \u201cTo not fail just the character, but the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing is going to take me away from being a Picasso lover of his art and everything he has done as an artist, but there are certain sides of the human being that are darker, so we have to tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Banderas also pointed to his confidence in executive producer Ron Howard as a reason he was willing to take on the role.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important when you do a biopic to have that security that what you\u2019re doing is actually based on facts because you\u2019re talking about a human life that affected millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sense of responsibility represents a kind of burden on my shoulders,\u201d Banderas said.<\/p>\n
The 10-part series exploring the life of the Spanish-born artist also stars Alex Rich, Poppy Delevingne, Sebastian Roche, T.R. Knight and Seth Gabel.<\/p>\n
\u2018Genius: Picasso\u2019 debuts Tuesday 24 April on Nat Geo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Antonio Banderas has opened up about the responsibility he felt in taking on the role of one of his heroes, Pablo Picasso, in the second season of National Geographic Channel\u2019s \u2018Genius\u2019 anthology series. He told E! he went into the project trying not to fail. \u201cTo not fail just the character, but the truth.\u201d \u201cNothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-lv"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n