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Pedro Almodovar on 'The Skin I Live In' -- and What It's Like to Live in His Ski

Started by Shana A, October 13, 2011, 09:06:27 AM

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October 13, 2011, 09:06:27 AM
Pedro Almodovar on 'The Skin I Live In' -- and What It's Like to Live in His Skin (Video)
The Spanish two-time Oscar winner has been one of the most internationally famous non-American filmmakers in the world for the past quarter-century.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/pedro-almodovar-skin-i-live-in-245853

Last week, I had the great privilege of spending about a half-hour in New York with the iconic Spanish writer/director Pedro Almodovar, who has been one of the most internationally famous non-American filmmakers in the world for the past quarter-century.

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On the recurring presence of transsexuals and ->-bleeped-<-s in his films  "Since I was very young, I knew many transsexual and ->-bleeped-<- persons... they really were like heroines or heroes to me... I wanted to be clear, since the beginning, that it was not a Luddite thing, a frivolous thing... in a plot, if you put a transsexual in the middle, everything changes... so, in that sense, I like it."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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