Julianne Moore is ready to star in “The Room Next Door,” the primary full-length English-language function from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar.
Moore — whose casting was confirmed on Thursday by Almodóvar’s manufacturing firm El Deseo on social media — joins Tilda Swinton within the movie. Swinton beforehand starred in Almodovar’s 2021 quick “The Human Voice.” Swinton’s casting, which Almodóvar’s first spoke about final yr, was additionally confirmed by El Deseo.
The Instagram publish stated that the “The Room Next Door” is a “drama between a mother and daughter,” including that it might be filmed within the spring in New York and Madrid. No different particulars in regards to the plot or Moore and Swinton’s roles was revealed.
Representatives for Moore didn’t instantly reply to Variety‘s request for remark.
Almodóvar had beforehand acknowledged that his shorts “The Human Voice” and “Strange Way of Life” — that are each in English — have been merely warm-ups so he may develop accustomed to directing English-speaking actors. He had beforehand been connected to direct the English-language function “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” which Cate Blanchett was because of produce and star in, however dropped out in 2022.
“The Room Next Door” marks Almodóvar’s first function since 2021’s “Parallel Mothers,” which premiered in Venice. Penélope Cruz, who performs a single mom in a narrative that additionally includes the seek for lacking our bodies of these murdered in the course of the Spanish Civil War, would go on to win the pageant’s Volpi Cup for finest actress, whereas the movie garnered eight Goya Award nominations.
One of essentially the most acknowledged European administrators with an enormous worldwide following, Almodóvar’s earlier work consists of “Talk to Her,” “The Skin I Live In,” “Pain and Glory,” and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.”