Antonio Banderas to play artist he is 'haunted' by

Quoted in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Banderas said: "Picasso is a character that has haunted me for a long time and I always refused him. He no doubt deserves plenty of respect because I'm from Malaga and was born four blocks from where he was born."

The biopic will focus on how Picasso painted his masterpiece 'Guernica,' a mural that took the master abstract artist 33 days to complete. The film is directed by Carlos Saura and is expected to begin shooting this summer.

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