Pedro Almodóvar is still celebrating after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It had been more than half a century since a Spanish filmmaker had achieved such consideration, being Luis Buñuel with the French film Beautiful of day, the last to have reached it. SO, The next room It is also the first national proposal crowned at the Italian festival. One more feat for the career of the director of La Mancha, to whom the media are already wondering what his next cinematographic adventure will be. And while it may still be too early to know where his particular creative universe is headed, the author of Back made it clear that he was very interested in the synergy and relationship between Zendaya and her stylist, Law Cockroach. A duo which, according to what he declared in a new interview, would make a comedy.
At 75 years old, that of Ciudad Real maintains a high level of work on celluloid with plus 22 feature films behind his back. However, with his recent film being filmed in English, he still has a long way to go on the awards circuit, as it would be very strange if the film with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton did not receive a nomination at the next edition of the Oscars. However, like any creator, Almodóvar’s imagination is surely already exploring other stories to film, while at the same time his label El Deseo is looking for a new director for the adaptation of “The Handbook for cleaning women”, in which he will play. Cate Blanchett. But apparently the two-time Oscar winner paid a lot of attention to the figure of the peculiar Roach. The man who, to some extent, made Zendaya a real fashion icon.
A new comedy for Almodóvar?
Of course, what Almodóvar made clear was that this story was centered in the world of fashion. there would be nothing serious and obviously, we would talk about the comic register. A genre which is not repeated in his filmography and which has not ended up finding the complacency of critics in his latest approach with Passing lovers. In fact, according to the director himself, the only comedy he has made in his career is the fantastic Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Of course, what most attracts the genius of Calzada de Calatrava is the way in which Roach’s franchise could affect his relationship with the actress Euphoria and how this whole network of corporate egos would develop within the fashion industry. Regardless, Almodóvar was categorically clear when asked a few days ago about the new stories he had left to tell.
“I’m fascinated by Zendaya’s stylist.”the director told the magazine Vanity Fair. Immediately afterwards, he explored and described this interest to the point of placing it in context and venturing into the possible future mechanisms of the story: “I think his work is an enormous creative act. It’s about fashion, frivolity and social issues, and it’s all about promotion. But above all I think that this requires talent. I asked about this guy and they told me he was almost as diva as she was. I would love to make a film about them, a mix between Naked Eve And The devil wears Prada“.
A controversial stylist
What makes Roach and Zendaya’s relationship so unique is that, unlike most stylists, he only cares about her. Roach officially announced his retirement in 2023 via Instagram in a post in which criticized the industry itself. “If this job was just about clothes, I would do it for the rest of my life, but unfortunately it’s not like that! The politics, lies and false narratives finally got me! You win…I’m leaving,” he wrote in an article last year.
Finally, Almodóvar gives some indications on what would the story be like and he assured that if anyone wanted to write it, they would love to confront this material: “These people are very funny. I imagine them all with their fluidity, in competition. There would be a character who would be like the most high authority in fashion, then a stylist who would like to get this position in the world of celebrities, scouting them, talking to fashion houses and trying on clothes all the time If you are a screenwriter and you have an idea like this-. there, I would love to develop it.
For the moment, the author of All about my mother doesn’t no future agency project. Meanwhile, Zendaya still has a few full years of work ahead of her, with her new project A2 with Robert Pattinson and Dune: Messiah.
