Pedro Almodóvar had to give up directing Cate Blanchett in a long-awaited film. Photo: EFE / Marshal
Pedro Almodóvar, the famous Spanish director, he will not direct the film Manual for cleaning ladiesbased on the book by American writer Lucia Berlin, and in which Australian actress Cate Blanchett would have been one of the protagonists, sources from El Deseo, producer of the director of La Mancha confirmed Tuesday.
}East it would be his first feature film in Englishhaving shot a short film in this language in 2020, The human voicewith the British actress tilda swinton.
What Almodóvar explained
“It was a very painful decision for me,” Almodóvar told the US website Deadline, the one in charge of advancing the news. The director made this decision, by the same means, because he believes it he is not ready to tackle a project of this magnitude in English.
“I have dreamed of working with Cate for so long. Dirty Films has been so generous to me all this time and I was blinded by emotion, but unfortunately, I no longer feel capable of making this film completely, ”added the director of All about my mother (film for which he won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) e Women on the verge of a nervous attack.
The film Manual for cleaning ladies it will be produced by Dirty Films, Cate Blanchett’s production company, which has already done so is looking for another director take on the project.
The word of Cate Blanchett after n
“We have the utmost respect for Pedro Almodóvar and his extraordinary work, and Although the stars didn’t align this time, we hope to partner with Pedro and El Deseo on another project. in the future, “said film producers Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Coco Francini.
The project of Manual for cleaning ladies was announced last January and is based on the book by Lucía Berlin, a compilation with fifty short storiesmost of the protagonist workers, with an acidic and original narrative tone.
Meanwhile, the Spanish director has another project on his hands: he is a western starring the American actor Ethan Hawke and the Chilean Pedro Pascal.
The film will be titled strange way of life and it will only last thirty minutes. Filming concluded on September 3 in Almeríaa province in southern Spain with an arid area in which films have been made for decades due to its resemblance to recurring settings of this genre, with long desert lands and mountainous areas.
Pedro Almodóvar (born in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain, 1949) has two Oscars. In addition to the one mentioned by Todo sobre mi madre at the ceremony in 2000, as best film in a foreign language, there is also Best original screenplay for Parla con lei, a 2003 film. In both there were Argentine actors. Cecilia Roth, protagonist of the first, and Darío Grandinetti, among the figures of the second.
In addition, the Spanish director has won many more awards in different countries for his more than twenty feature films since he premiered his first film in 1980.
Source: EFE
wd
Source: Clarin
