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Article: JAVIER BARDEM.(Interview)
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- Interview
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- January 1, 2001
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A CREATIVE SPIRIT LIGHTS UP BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
Javier Bardem achieved critical and international success in 1992 with Jose Juan Bigas Luna's Jamon Jamon, but his name has remained relatively unknown internationally. This month, with the much-anticipated release of Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, the fantastically talented thirty-one-year-old actor plays one of the most fascinating roles in any American film in years. It's an assignment he's prepared himself for: Bardem is the star of more than twenty foreign films, including Pedro Almodovar's High Heels (1991) and Live Flesh (1997)--as well as Jamon Jamon, which featured another then up-and-coming Spanish ...