Then the two men anxiously fumble to find their missing clothes.

“Basically, the words are naked, what they say after,” the director adds.

But Almodovar feels the story is much sexier in the scenes that don’t involve sex.

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Ethan Hawke’s Jake and Pedro Pascal’s Silva in ‘Strange Way of Life’.Sony Pictures Classics

Also, at the end of the dinner, Pedro Pascal is drinking and watching the bed.

And a bed is a bed.

It’s very clear what it means.

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Pedro Almodovar directs Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal through a scene in ‘Strange Way of Life’.Sony Pictures Classics

I think that’s a very sexy scene without the need to actually undress them."

or something like that," Almodovar says.

“Pedro Pascal gives the answer to Heath Ledger 18 years after [inStrange Way of Life].”

However, the filmmaker doesn’t feel the comparisons toBrokeback Mountainand his short are justified.

“I likeBrokeback Mountainvery much.

“Even now, they keep on doing it that way.

“There are many male characters.

Even his daughter is more masculine than all of them.

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