The poster for Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke’s queer western just dropped
Strange Way of Life dropped yesterday. The 30-minute western by celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar stars Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke.
It’s only Almodóvar’s second English-language film.Alongside the poster, a couple of publicity stills have also emerged, along with information on the short’s world premiere.New stills of Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke in Pedro Almodóvar’s queer Western short 'Strange Way of Life' pic.twitter.com/Pf6ZacvzXrA Strange Way Of Life has been selected for the official program of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in May.
Almodóvar, Pascal and Hawke will all attend the festival for the screening.According to Variety, “the western drama revolves around the bond between two men who met when they were young while working together as hired gunmen and reconnect 25 years later in Bitter Creek.”Various sources say the characters enjoyed a gay relationship earlier in their lives, with Esquire hinting their friendship was “possibly of the romantic variety” when younger.Pascal recently told Insider how he jumped at the chance to work with Almodóvar.“It could have been anything that [Almodóvar] asked me to do, and I would have done it without question,” Pascal said. “He absolutely opened up an entire world of storytelling, color, culture, rebellion, and sexuality that was just absolutely intoxicating, dangerous, hilarious, heartbreaking, and encompassing the whole spectrum, but with such a signature style.”This month’s Esquire carries a new, major profile of Pascal.
One of those to contribute to the article is queer actress Sarah Paulson.It turns out that Pascal and Paulson used to hang out together a great deal in the 1990s.
