Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardemis a Spanish actor from the Canary Islands. He is best known for his role in the 2007 film No Country for Old Men, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor portraying the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh. He has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol, Mar adentro, and Skyfall, for which he received both a BAFTA and a...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 March 1969
CityLas Palmas, Spain
CountrySpain
I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
You shall love. Whether you like it or not.
I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
I don't like to talk about my personal life.
The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.
I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.
I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.
I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.