• Dakota Johnson’s mother Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas were once wed
•  the Puss in Boots actor recounted a number of their precious moments with Dakota
• Antonio claimed that the two most recent occasions he saw Dakota were at film festivals. 

Although Dakota Johnson’s mother Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas were once wed, their relationship as stepfather and stepdaughter has endured. On a segment from December 13th, the Puss in Boots actor recounted a number of their precious moments, including the lovely moniker Dakota gave him.

“She called me ‘Paponio,” the 62-year-old  Francesca Amiker. “I am ‘Papi’ and ‘Antonio’ altogether, so she always called me ‘Paponio.'”

With the holidays fast approaching, Antonio shared that he and Dakota don’t have any upcoming plans to reunite, mainly because, “Dakota became a very busy person,” he said, “and she’s working all the time.”

Antonio claimed that the two most recent occasions he saw the Fifty Shades of Grey actor were at film festivals. But he has a special place in his heart for one event they both went to. At the Hollywood Film Awards in 2019, Dakota gave him the Hollywood Actor Award for his work on Pain and Glory.

“She gave it to me and she gave one of the most beautiful speeches that anybody has given me,” the actor shared. “So, I was very thankful to know that she thought that about Papi.”

Another close person in Antonio’s life is his fellow actor and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish co-star Salma Hayek. Having first met while working on the 1995 film Desperado, the star told E! News that they have “kept the relationship going as friends for many years.”

“Worked together again in Frida after that, and then came Puss in Boots, and we’ve done two of those,” he continued. And in addition to 2021’s Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, the two have starred in a total of five films together.

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