She could be stepping again.
Tilda Swinton mentioned her new drama with Julianne Moore, “The Room Next Door,” could also be her closing movie.
“I’ve always intended that each film would be my final one,” Swinton, 64, informed Elle in a current interview.
“It was not wanting to jinx anything because I have had such fun from start to finish. I always thought, ‘Well, that’s a good one to go out on. Let’s just quit while we’re ahead.’ And I feel it today.”
The British actress added, “I feel ‘The Room Next Door’ is the last film I make. Let’s see if anything else happens.”
If Swinton does retire, she’d be ending a profession that has lasted over 30 years, gained her an Oscar, and featured her in all kinds of movies, from “Burn After Reading” and “Snowpiercer” to “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and the “Chronicles of Narnia” collection.
Swinton would be a part of the ranks of Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, 67, who additionally retired — though he can’t appear to remain retired.
Swinton already has one other film within the works, so her phrases is probably not fairly true.
She’ll be in Netflix’s “The Ballad of a Small Player,” co-starring Colin Farrell.
In response to a synopsis from Netflix, the film is about “a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau [who] encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.”
“The Room Next Door” follows Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), two ladies of their 60s who had been associates of their youth however haven’t seen one another in years. Ingrid is an writer within the artwork world, whereas Martha was a struggle correspondent. They reconnect when Ingrid learns that Martha has most cancers. John Turturro co-stars.
Swinton informed Elle, “The subject really is power. The feeling of powerlessness that we have to engage with around mortality, or, by the way, around aging. We have to get with the program: We are powerless.”
The “Only Lovers Left Alive” actress added, “And that in and of itself is a sort of taboo.”
At a Venice press convention for ‘The Room Next Door’ earlier this 12 months, Swinton mentioned, “I personally am not frightened of death, and I have never been. I think the whole journey toward accepting death can be long for some people for some reason. And for certain experiences in my life, it came quite early. I know it’s coming. I feel it coming. I see it coming.”
“The Room Next Door,” which gained the Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Pageant, could have a restricted theatrical launch Dec. 20.
