When Total Film last met Pedro Almodóvar, at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for Pain and Glory, the Spanish maestro was offering up selfies like confetti. Dressed in a bright yellow shirt, he was wearing two watches. Why? One to tell the time and one to track his step count. Today, over Zoom, TF can't resist asking the 73-yearold how that's all going. ‘Madrid, it's more than 40 degrees,' he sighs. His home is a ghost town, the streets empty, making it impossible to get those steps in. ‘Generally when it's not so hot, I reach 4,000 to 5,000, but I don't reach 8,000. This is a failure. I'm sorry!'
It's about the only thing Almodóvar has failed at over the decades, in a career that began with 1980's Pepi,…
