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Article: Javier Bardem.(Interview)
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- May 1, 2003
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YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE SAME MAN TWICE: NOT THE STOIC PYSICAL PRESENCE OF HIS EARLY FILMS, THE GREAT GAY-CUBAN WRITER IN BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, OR THE UNEMPLOYED DOCKWORKER LOOKING FOR DIGNITY AND THE FRUSTRATED, DRIFTING POLICEMAN OF HIS TWO FILMS THIS MONTH. MEET THE EVER-EVOLVING JAVIER BARDEM
As the star of some of Spain's most indelible films of the 1990s--including Pedro Almodovar's High Heels (1991) and Live Flesh (1997) and Jose Juan Bigas Luna's Jamon Jamon (1992)--Javier Bardem was already a major presence in his native country when Julian Schnabel's Before Night Fails exploded onto America's screens in 2000. For his performance in that film, Bardem earned ...