United Kingdom, March 26 -- Antonio Banderas has claimed his near-fatal heart attack is the best thing to have happened to him.

The 65-year-old actor reassessed his life after suffering a medical emergency in 2017 and after walking away from his Hollywood lifestyle to return to his birthplace of Malaga, Spain, where he bougtht the not-for-profit theatre Teatro del Soho, he couldn't be happier.

Antonio - who lives with partner Nicole Kimpel - told The Times newspaper of his belief his heart attack was the best thing to have happened to him: "Seriously. Mine was a really serious warning. It changed the way I look at life.

"Faced with death, it made me look back and realise that I am, in fact, a theatre actor. I have never been so happy."...