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Dakota Johnson Blamed Step Father Antonio Banderas For Her Mother’s Depression: “She’s refused to be in the same room as him”


Dakota Johnson and her former stepfather Antonio Banderas have always had a pretty close relationship. The Desperado actor not only raised her since she was just 6 years old, he was also her first director for the movie Crazy in Alabama in which she starred alongside Melanie Griffith and her younger half-sister Stella Banderas.
Johnson has admitted that much of what she knows about acting, culture, and life is through her Spanish stepfather. For which, she is extremely grateful. Banderas, too, seems to think of Johnson as his own daughter given the twenty years his marriage to her mother lasted.

However, that beautiful relationship allegedly turned sour real quick when Antonio Banderas left Melanie Griffith for his much younger current girlfriend Nicole Kempel in 2015. In fact, things became so bad, that Dakota Johnson allegedly refused to be in the same room with either Banderas or his girlfriend.
Dakota Johnson blamed Antonio Banderas for her mother’s depressionThrough lots of upheavals in life, Melanie Griffith has always remained Dakota Johnson‘s rock. However, the Pacific Heights star has also had to struggle with mental health issues constantly. Allegedly, building a steady life with Antonio Banderas for 20 years after they first met in 1995 for Two Much and promptly got married, helped her a lot to keep herself grounded.

Especially with them raising three children together. However, Griffith’s depression became worse when all of that sort of crumbled in 2015 with Antonio Banderas, too, leaving her for his much younger girlfriend Nicole Kempel. Reportedly, It not only made her insecurities worse but also made her relapse into her old habits of substance abuse.
And Dakota Johnson, who was busy shooting for the second movie in the Fifty Shades franchise, seemed to have taken that badly. She allegedly blamed Banderas for her mother’s worsening condition. As an insider close to the family claimed at the time,

“Dakota cut him off after he walked out on her mom and, despite several attempts from Antonio to mend bridges since then, she’s still refused to be in the same room as him or his new girlfriend.”
They further added, “It’s very sad – he raised this girl and she thinks he’s the most disgusting inconsiderate pig ever, which is incredibly heartbreaking for him.” However, they also admitted that Antonio Banderas was adamant about mending the bridges with his family, and that seems to have worked over time.

Antonio Banderas won Dakota Johnson over in timeThankfully although things seemed pretty rough and quite unrepairable at the time, Banderas seems to have won not only Dakota Johnson but even Melanie Griffith over slowly after that. As Banderas noted in an interview with People back in 2019, “Melanie is not my wife anymore, but I think she is my best friend. I love her and will love her until the day I die. She’s my family.”
The same year Dakota Johnson also presented her stepfather with the Hollywood Actor Award for his movie Pain and Glory with a heartwarming speech.
This seems to have touched Banderas as he claimed, “She gave it to me and she gave one of the most beautiful speeches that anybody has given me. So I was very thankful to know that she thought that about Papi.”
In fact, Banderas also divulged the cute nickname Johnson has always referred to him by last year in an interview. “She called me ‘Paponio,’” he noted, explaining, “I am ‘Papi’ and ‘Antonio’ altogether, so she always called me ‘Paponio.’”
As a result, it could be said that even though their relationship took a downward turn during those initial years after Banderas and Melanie Griffith’s divorce, things are going pretty well in the family now.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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