Pedro Almodóvar Might Turn His Gay Western Into a Feature

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“Perhaps I should do it,” the director said after Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke lit up Cannes with their sexy cowboy short.
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Nearly two decades ago, Pedro Almodóvar was offered the chance to direct Brokeback Mountain but declined, saying he was “doubtful he’d have the freedom to make the decisions he wanted.” At Cannes this afternoon, audiences finally got to see his answer to the gay cowboy movie at the premiere of Strange Way of Life, a 31-minute short starring Ethan Hawke as a sheriff named Jake and Pedro Pascal as a cowboy named Silva who, 25 years after a hot love affair, reunite in the desert under mysterious circumstances.

Almodóvar’s second English-language short after his Tilda…

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