Build something together...

Aqui há umas semanas, li uma entrevista numa revista cor-de-rosa (sim também as leio volta e meia) com o António Banderas. Não foi uma vez nem duas que vi referências à sua mulher - Melanie Griffith - na imprensa da má língua, sobre como está velha, quando comparada com ele, que não é talentosa e não está a conseguir envelhecer bem etc etc etc.

Ora o António, na entrevista, quando questionado sobre o segredo de um casamento com 12 anos, e uma união de 14, fez um brilharete. Porque me deixou a pensar, fica aqui um pequeno extracto.

You and Melanie have been together 14 years and are about to celebrate 12 years of marriage. That's quite something in Hollywood.

The're two couples who beat us. One of them is Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, who are great friends of ours. They've been married 50 years and everytime we go to New York we have dinner with them and joke about it. Paul says 'if you've only been together 14 years, you're still on your honeymoon.' Then there's Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

What's the secret to happiness?

Maybe the secret was that Melanie and I both had previous relationships and we learned from them. We focused on 'let's build something together' rather than 'look how in love we are' - despite the fact we were very in love. It's a question of faith. When Melanie and I look at each other we know exacly what the other's thinking. We have something special you don't acquire in two years. And I think it's wonderful to be able to fall in love again and again with your own wife." ... In Hello...

Grande António!!!