Pedro Almodovar: I Wanted ‘Skin I Live In’ to Be a Black & White Silent Film

Plus, the director talks about reuniting with Antonio Banderas at TheWrap’s Awards Screening Series

Director Pedro Almodóvar wasn’t just thinking Alfred Hitchcock and “Frankenstein” when he made his new plastic-surgery-gone-amuck thriller “The Skin I Live In” – in which a doctor does some terrible things in the operating room to a beautiful woman who's not there by choice.

Initially, his plan was to shoot a silent film in black and white, the director revealed at a Q&A following a showing of the film Tuesday night at the Landmark Theater, part of TheWrap’s ongoing Awards Screening Series.

In 2002’s “Talk to Her,” “I shot a nine-minute [silent] short called ‘The Shrinking Lover,’” the director told TheWrap’s Steve Pond, who hosted the discussion.

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