Spanish actor Antonio Banderas said in an interview published Tuesday in the Russian press that he is set to make another film with moviemaker Pedro Almodovar, 21 years after “Atame” (“Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!”), a production in which he co-starred with Victoria Abril.

“Believe me, this film will be as tough and provocative as moviegoers always expected Almodovar to be in the first stage of his career,” Banderas told the daily Kommersant.

Banderas, who was the special guest Sunday at the first edition of the Saint Petersburg film festival, said that it has been “21 years since the last time he worked” with the director from La Mancha.

Banderas added that recently “Pedro (Almodovar) said: ‘I feel as if all those years didn’t really go by and it was just yesterday we were working together.” “I feel exactly the same. Those long 20 years passed by like a single day,” Banderas said.

Films directed by Almodovar such as “Atame” and “Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios” (“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”) put Banderas in the spotlight, and in the 1990s he made to leap to Hollywood with “The Mambo Kings.” Banderas acknowledged the great influence of Russian culture and cinema in his life and said that “Evita” was the most difficult production of his career.