From L: Julianne Moore, Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton.Photo:Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty, Juan Naharro Gimenez/WireImage, Pascal Le Segretain/Getty
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty, Juan Naharro Gimenez/WireImage, Pascal Le Segretain/Getty
Pedro Almodóvar’s newest film is packing some major star power.
Along with confirming the movie’s title and actresses' involvement, the post said that they will be “placed under the command of the director from La Mancha in a drama between mother and daughter that will be filmed in the spring in New York and Madrid.”
The caption added thatThe Room Next Doorwill be Almodóvar’s “first film shot in English.”
Sharing aphoto of the trioto her own Instagram grid, Moore, 63, wrote, “What a dream to be with these 2 - I feel so lucky! Starting work on#TheRoomNextDoorwith the maestro#pedroalmodóvarand the magnificent#tildaswinton@eldeseo_.”
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The Room Next Doorwill be Almodóvar’s newest project after last year’s short filmStrange Way of Lifeand 2021’s feature filmParallel Mothers, which earned a Best ActressOscarnomination forPenélope Cruz.
Almodóvar, 74, also wrote both films. Back whenParallel Mothersclosed out the 59th New York Film Festival in October 2021, Cruz, 49, told PEOPLE that the director is “like family to me.”
The filmmaker and Cruz have worked together on seven films together:Live Flesh(1997),All About My Mother(1999),Volver(2006),Broken Embraces(2009),I’m So Excited!(2013),Pain and Glory(2019) andParallel Mothers(2021).
“We’re really close. Weunderstand each other. We can read each other’s minds. We can never lie to each other. We don’t even try. So, all of that — it just helps and makes it easy to work with each other,” she said of her fellow Spaniard.
“However, on set we make sure to give each other space, so that we maintain respect for one another,” Cruz added at the time. “It’s a good balance we have. It’s been like 30 years since I met him, and 25 years working together, and I hope many more. He’s really special.”
Pedro Pascal inStrange Way of Life(2023); Penélope Cruz inParallel MothersM(2021).Everett (2)
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Speaking withIndieWirein June 2022, Almodóvar described the story as “intimate” but hesitated to draw too big a parallel betweenStrange Way of Lifeand 2005’sBrokeback Mountain.
“The relation between these two guys is animalistic,” he told the outlet. “It was a physical relationship. The punch of the movie comes when they have to separate, and Heath Ledger discovers that he can’t think about leaving. That’s a strong discovery.”
“But until that moment, it is animalistic, and for me it was impossible to have that in the movie because it was a Hollywood movie,” Almodóvar added. “You could not have these two guys f—ing all the time.”
source: people.com
