Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal to Star in Pedro Almodovar’s Western ‘Strange Way of Life’
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentEthan Hawke has signed on to star in Pedro Almodóvar’s next film, “Strange Way of Life,” (“Extraña forma de vida”), a half-hour Western.The Spanish director will shoot the short before making his English-language feature debut, “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” with Cate Blanchett.Hawke stars opposite Chile’s Pedro Pascal, who portrayed Oberyn Martell in “Game of Thrones,” in a film which will be “another exercise of freedom in the line of ‘The Human Voice,’” said producer Agustín Almodóvar.The short will be shot in English.
Set up at El Deseo, the Almodóvar brothers’ Madrid-based production company, “Strange Way of Life” begins with a man, Silva, riding on a horse across a desert to Bitter Creek.
He has come to visit Sheriff Jake. 25 years earlier, the two men worked together as hired gunmen. Silva comes with the pretext of re-encountering his friend from youth.
They celebrate their re-encounter. But the following morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the real reason for his visit isn’t memories of their old friendship….“I won’t say any more because I don’t want to reveal all the script’s surprises,” Pedro Almodóvar wrote in a statement issued by El Deseo on Tuesday.The film’s title, he explained, echoes the title of a famous fado written and sung by Amalia Rodrigues.
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