Against all odds, Pedro Almodovar has announced that he is abandoning his film project with actress Cate Blanchett. “Handbook for Using Cleaning Girls” is to be the Spanish director’s first film in English.
This adaptation of the short story by American Lucia Berlin was close to his heart. But the ‘Stilettos’ and ‘All About My Mom’ author revealed to Deadline that she ‘can’t feel whole anymore’. His brother Agustin Almodóvar, who runs the production company “El Tesio” with him, confirmed on Twitter on Wednesday.
Pedro Almodovar dropped ‘Manuel Para Mujeres de la Limpieza’ project, which would have protected Cate Blanchett.
— Agustin Almodovar (@AgustinAlmo) September 14, 2022
“It’s a very painful decision for me. (…) I’ve dreamed of working with Kate for so long,” said Pedro Almodóvar. The Australian, who received the Volpi trophy for best actress, shared a joy. Venice Film Festival Last weekend. At the beginning of the year, on the sidelines of the Goya festival, he announced: “I have known Pedro for twenty years and we have been talking for a long time about the possibility of working on a project”.
If the filmmaker had stayed away, the film would have been more relevant. The production company is looking for a new director. In 2020, Pedro Almodovar, who released his first short film in English called “The Human Voice”, has just finished shooting his first western film, in the language of Shakespeare, with Ethan Hawke: “Strange Life”.
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