He didn’t make it to the Oscars, the Golden Globes or the Goyas, but Spanish superstar director Pedro Almodovar did attend an event of a different kind this past Saturday in Madrid. Almovodar led a group of around half a million of his fellow Spaniards in saying no to the war in Iraq:

Almodovar told the private Europa Press news agency he was protesting “the barbarities they have been committing in Iraq for the past four years.”

“We’re here for peace and for the closure of Guantanamo because it is a disgrace for civilization,” he added.

Spain currently has no troops in Iraq, as President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled all of his men from the region back in 2005, which makes the protest and the fact that Spaniards — famous or not — continue to pressure world governments to pull out of Iraq all the more admirable.

Today, 300 senators and officials from all Spanish political parties except the right-leaning PP (ousted from government after the March 11th, 2004 terrorist attacks) came together on the steps of the Congreso de los Diputados in Madrid to protest the war as well.

Via / Yahoo! Entertainment