Spanish director Almodovar withdraws from English film project with Cate Blanchett

Oscar-winning Spanish chief Pedro Almodovar has removed from coordinating his most memorable English-language include

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"A Manual for Cleaning Women" featuring Cate Blanchett with creation to go on without him, his sibling affirmed Wednesday.

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Pedro Almodovar is hauling out of the 'Manual for Cleaning Women' project

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which will go on with Cate Blanchett," tweeted Agustin Almodovar who together runs the siblings' film creation organization, El Deseo.

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The news was first broken by diversion site Deadline Hollywood, which said Almodovar had everything set up yet

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he came to the choice that he's not prepared to handle such a great undertaking in English.

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It has been an exceptionally excruciating choice for me," Almodovar told Deadline.

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I have longed for working with Cate for so long.

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Grimy Films has been so liberal with me this entire time and I was dazed by fervor, however tragically, I never again feel ready to understand this film completely.

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Almodovar's withdrawal from the undertaking, which was to have been his most memorable full-length adventure in English, won't influence Blanchett's part in the creation.

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