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		</div><p>Antonio Banderas has said he abandoned Hollywood for Surrey because he needed to return to “a much more real world”.</p>
<p>The star, 58, left the US four years ago after starring in a string of blockbusters including The Mask Of Zorro and Spy Kids, and voicing Puss in Boots in the Shrek series.</p>
<p>Banderas, who now lives in the village of Cobham with his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel, described Hollywood as “a factory” albeit one with a “very well done product”.</p>
<p>He told PA he had decided to return to Europe because it was more “critical” and “down to earth”.</p>
<p>Speaking at the premiere of Pain &; Glory at London’s Somerset House, he said: <em>“I came back to a much more real world. Hollywood is a place that I am very thankful for.</em></p>
<p><em>“They treated me beautiful and from a personal and professional life in America, I have to be very thankful of what happened there.</em></p>
<p><em>“But Europe is more critical. It is more down to earth. I kind of needed that. I was looking for that again.</em></p>
<p><em>“Not just in England but Europe in general, Spain included, and the countries I have been working in. We have been working in Italy, we have been working in France.</em></p>
<p><em>“We are not so much a factory as Hollywood. Hollywood is a factory that has a very well-done product.”</em></p>
<p>He jokingly added: <em>“But Europe… Europe is another type of wine.”</em></p>
<p>His Hollywood exit came after his ex-wife Melanie Griffith filed for divorce in May 2014, citing irreconcilable differences.</p>
<p>Banderas stars alongside Penelope Cruz in Pain &; Glory, a semi-autobiographical drama by long-time collaborator Pedro Almodovar, the director behind Volver and Julieta.</p>
<p>He plays Salvador Mallo, a film director in decline who, through a series of re-encounters, comes face to face with his past.</p>
<p>Fellow Oscar-winner Cruz, who starred in Almodovar’s acclaimed Volver, plays his mother.</p>
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