Tilda Swinton SaysRoom Next DoorMay Be the 'Last Film I Make': 'Let's See If Anything Else Happens'

Mar. 15, 2025

Tilda Swinton on Nov. 10, 2023.Photo:Karwai Tang/WireImage

Karwai Tang/WireImage

ForTilda Swinton, retirement might be on the horizon.

In aninterview forELLE’s2024 Women in Hollywood issue, the Oscar-winning actress, 64, said her new drama with Julianne Moore,The Room Next Door, might be her last.

“I’ve always intended that each film would be my final one,” said Swinton. “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.”

“I feelThe Room Next Dooris the last film I make. Let’s see if anything else happens,” she said.

Swinton has at least one movie already in the works:The Ballad of a Small Player, from the director ofConclaveandAll Quiet on the Western Front,and also starring Colin Farrell. Per a synopsis from Netflix, the movie is about “a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau [who] encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.”

Tilda Swinton on Sept. 2, 2024.JB Lacroix/FilmMagic

JB Lacroix/FilmMagic

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Swinton, in the jointELLEinterview with costar Moore, 63, said the film’s themes of death resonated with her.

Swinton has been a film actress since the ’80s. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for the filmMichael Clayton, in which she starred opposite George Clooney. Her other major movies includeThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(2005),Snowpiercer(2013),Trainwreck(2015),Doctor Strange(2016) and many more.

At a Venice press conference forThe Room Next Doorearlier this year, Swinton said she doesn’t fear death.

“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 Dooris in select theaters Dec. 20, wider on Jan. 10, then nationwide Jan. 17.

source: people.com