Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas get in touch with their inner child at the Los Angeles Premiere Puss in Boots, held at The Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, California on October 23rd, 2011.

Other guests included Zach Galifianakis, Vivica A. Fox and Travis Barker.

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Antonio Banderas was seen arriving at the 59th San Sebastian Donostia International Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain earlier today.

Rachel McAdams looks beautiful in a red lace Marchesa gown! Rachel is in Cannes to promote her latest film, ‘Midnight in Paris’.

While Rachel looks beautiful, I think Uma looks absolutely GORGEOUS in a white dress by Versace. Salma Hayek steps out in Gucci, and Antonio Banderas steps out with wife, Malanie Griffith.

Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas, the voices behind the ‘Shrek’ spin-off ‘Puss in Boots’ were on hand in Cannes this morning to promote the new film.

The Washington Post gave an interesting interview this morning:

Getting older in Hollywood and being Hispanic, they are no longer the limitations they once were, say Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. After all, they wonder, when have Hispanic actors ever landed such big feline roles as the leads in the animated adventure “Puss in Boots”?

“When I started out, Hispanic roles were very limited,” Hayek said Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where she and Banderas joined DreamWorks Animation overseers to show off footage of “Puss in Boots,” a “Shrek” spinoff coming this November. “Roles were very limited. There were one or two kinds of characters you used to do. Now we get to play the cats! It’s OK to be a Hispanic, even if you are a cat.”

“Cats were British, normally,” Banderas added at a question-and-answer session alongside Hayek after the footage screened.

“I feel very proud, actually,” Banderas said of his role in expanding the types of parts open to Hispanic performers. “I never pretended when I first went to Hollywood to be a guy from Oklahoma. I am what I am. And fortunately, the Spanish community in the United States has grown in the last 22 years that I have been there. There has been an explosion in Hollywood, which is a reflection of the society in which we live.”

After the footage showed, Banderas and Hayek headed to a pier along the Mediterranean beach, where they posed for photos on a giant pair of boots bearing the movie’s title. Banderas reprises his voice role from the last three “Shrek” films, providing the voice of Puss in Boots, the tiny cat with the big heart, big ideas and bigger ego.

A prequel chronicling Puss’ adventures before meeting ogre Shrek, the movie has the cat as an outlaw, looking to pull off a big score. But his scheme is interrupted by another calculating cat, Kitty Softpaws (voiced by Hayek), who is in league with Puss’ pal-turned-foe Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), as they try to swipe the magic beans of the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale from beastly bandits Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris).

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Pictured: Cameron Diaz, Mike Myers, Antonio Banderas, Craig Robinson, Eddie Murphy and Melanie Brown.

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Actor Antonio Banderas receiving the ‘Doctor Honoris Causa’ award from Malaga University, in Malaga, Spain.

It was just announced that Antonio Banderas has signed on to work with director Pedro Almodovar (love him!) again.  Antonio and Pedro worked together on 1990′s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. The new movie will be called La Piel que Habito (translation: The Skin I Live In).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Almodóvar told the Spanish daily El Pais, “The film will be a terror film, without screams or scares….It’s the harshest film I’ve ever written and Banderas’ character is brutal.” In the movie, based on the Thierry Jonquet novelTarantula, Banderas will play a plastic surgeon who takes revenge on the man who raped his daughter. Almodóvar said he sees it as a way for both Banderas and himself to stretch. “I could have continued with a puerile guy with an overpowering power of seduction, but this guy [in Skin] is a real psychopath and Antonio, at 50, is perfect for this exercise is something so different from anything I’ve done until now.”

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Having said she’s beaten back the “monster” she calls her 30-year-old substance-abuse problems, an elegant Melanie Griffith looked the picture of health at her husband Antonio Banderas’ side for Wednesday’s opening of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. It was certainly a cause for many celebrations.

“He did everything,” Griffith 52, told People about Banderas’ help during her struggle. (Last August, Griffith entered rehab for the third time, following stints in 1988 and 2000.) “He has been an amazing man.”

“It’s tough,” Banderas, 49, admitted to People, as he and Griffith appeared on the red carpet for the animated feature Shrek Forever After, in which the handsome Spaniard is not seen but heard – as the swashbuckling feline Puss in Boots.

Of his wife’s return to health, he said, “The entire family participated in the process of rehabilitation. We went to the place where she was doing it, we participated in all the therapies … everything, everybody in the family. It’s tough, but at the same time, very rewarding.”

Besides Banderas, Griffith’s family includes her mother, ’60s screen star Tippi Hedren, 80; son Alexander (whose father is Griffith’s second husband, actor Steven Bauer), 24; daughter Dakota (with her former husband Don Johnson), 20; and daughter (with Banderas) Stella, 14.

Having Griffith back in top shape must be wonderful, Banderas was asked. “Absolutely,” he told People, beaming as he spoke. “We are stronger right now than we were.”

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