Yesterday on Twitter Pedro Almodóvar's brother and producer Agustín shared this image of Pedro with the stars of his next movie, his first English-language feature film, The Room Next Door! And as if I even need to name them those stars are Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton! And yes every one of these sentences deserve an exclamation point! Every! One! of! These! Words! Deserve! An! Exclamation! Point! Anyway here is how IMDb describes the movie: "Martha's strained relationship with her mother fractures completely when a misunderstanding drives them apart. Their mutual friend Ingrid sees both sides of the rift." TIlda is playing Martha, and Juli is the next door neighbor Ingrid. No word on who's playing Tilda's mother yet -- and after re-watching The Eternal Daughter a couple of weeks ago...
... excuse me for only being able to picture Tilda as being capable of playing TIlda's mother. I don't see Pedro going that route, though -- If I understand him (and I think I do) any excuse Pedro would have to work with an older legendary actress that he's never had the opportunity to work with before is the kind of thing one foresees him seizing. Who would you cast as Tilda's mother?
Oh and one more thing I do want to mention on this subject -- there is one more person listed in the cast of this movie on IMDb and that person is John Turturro! I was weirdly never huge on Turturro (even despite my deep deep love for Barton Fink) until recently, thanks to the one-two punch of his performances in Sebastián Lelio's marvelous Gloria Bell (opposite Julianne Moore!) and on the show Severance. His romance with Christopher Walken of all people is one of my favorite things on T.V. these days. Who the hell had John Turturro becoming one of our great romantic actors on their bingo card? What a time to be alive.
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Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Smith, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander
I just binge-watched Severance this weekend, what a show.
Yes, to the ALL of the suggestions from Anon!
Mary Steenburgen
Hell, I had no idea about Severance. Wow. Thank you for dropping that bomb.
Charlotte Rampling
There is a comment on Twitter saying that Tilda's mother could be Glenn Close...♥️
Sigourney or Glenn should play Tilda's mother but if they want to go older how about Julie Christie coming out of retirement or Gena Rowlands.
Amy Sedaris would be great playing Tilda's mother. Who in the hell else could it be?
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