Ethan Hawke joins the western short film that Almodóvar will shoot in Almería

Ethan Hawke, at the Cannes festival, last May. Daniel Cole (AP)

The American actor Ethan Hawke has confirmed that he will be one of the protagonists of

a western short film that Pedro Almodóvar is going to shoot this summer in the province of Almería.

"I'll be in Spain soon, I'm going to shoot with Almodóvar", he declared in an interview on the

in which he spoke about the new horror movie he has released,

, which has just arrived in Spanish theaters.

Hawke thus joins Chilean actor Pedro Pascal in the cast.

preparation work

for filming they are scheduled for July and filming, in the desert of Tabernas, is expected in August.

Almodóvar was already in the area earlier this year looking for locations, reported

.

This will be the third time that he shoots in Almeria, where he has already set sequences for two works.

It was on the Agua Amarga beach for

and Mónsul for

The director expressed two years ago, at the Venice Film Festival, his desire to shoot in places where some of the sets used for his films by directors such as Sergio Leone are preserved.

One of those spaces could be the one that was built for the film

(1968).

The new film will last around 30 minutes and its genre will be that of the