'Pedro! Pedro!' shouted the Cannes crowd before Pedro Almodovar unveiled his latest film, 'Strange Way of Life,' a 31-minute Western starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as cowboys and former lovers.
Ethan Hawke, left, and director Pedro Almodovar pose for portrait photographs for the film 'Strange Way of Life' at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 18, 2023. "Pedro! Pedro!" shouted the Cannes crowd before Pedro Almodovar unveiled his latest film, "Strange Way of Life," a 31-minute Western starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as cowboys and former lovers.
"I was not sure that I'd make a Western in my life but at least I made a short," Almodovar said smiling the next day in an interview on a hotel terrace overlooking the Croisette. Almodovar, a deeply knowledgeable film buff who has consciously worked in melodrama, noir and screwball genres before, discovered his love of Westerns in his early 20s. He lists John Sturges, Henry Hathaway, Anthony Mann and Howard Hawks among his favorites. "John Ford is unlimited," he says.
Almodovar has come closer before. In the early `90s, he sought the rights to adapt Tom Spanbauer's "The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon," but says a Western with gay cowboys and Native Americans was a tough sell. Almodovar also turned down "Brokeback Mountain," which Ang Lee made in 2005. He wanted to make a more full-fledged Western, with gunfights. Just with holsters slung over the bed post.
"You feel yourself a part of the legend of cinema history," says Hawke. "To be in Spain, with Pedro, making an American Western, it was very meta."
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