Strange Way of Life director reflects on Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke’s “erotic” chemistry
The director for Strange Way of Life has dished about Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke’s intense onscreen chemistry. On 25 September, the highly anticipated LGBTQIA+ Western will finally hit UK cinemas for a one-night-only screening.
With a run time of 31 minutes, the film follows Silva (Pascal) and a sheriff named Jake (Hawke) as they navigate their complicated past and uncertain future.
The official synopsis reads: “A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake.
Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. “Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend from his youth, and they do indeed celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their old friendship…” Ahead of its UK premiere, Strange Way of Life director Pedro Almodóvar opened up to The Times about the film and its erotic undertones.
