EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya talk 'The Skin I Live In'

Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:50

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Opening in theaters on October 14th is the new film from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar (Volver) entitled The Skin I Live In. The film stars Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots) and marks his sixth collaboration with Almodovar but the first since Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! over twenty-one years ago. In addition to Banderas, the cast includes Elena Anaya (Point Blank), Maria Paredes (Life Is Beautiful), and Eduard Fernandez (En la ciudad).

IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick recently had an opportunity to sit down and chat with actors Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya about their work in The Skin I Live In. The two actors spoke freely about the film, it's shocking subject matter, their complicated characters, kidnapping, and what it was like for Banderas to reunite with Almodovar after all these years.

To watch what our exclusive interview with Antonio Banderas and Elena Anaya about The Skin I Live In, please click on the video player above.

SYNOPSIS:

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed three more things: no scruples, an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia (Paredes), the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig ...

The Skin I live In opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, October 14th.