Julianne Moore is about to star in “The Room Subsequent 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 brief “The Human Voice.” Swinton’s casting, which Almodóvar’s first spoke about final 12 months, was additionally confirmed by El Deseo.

The Instagram put up stated that the “The Room Subsequent Door” is a “drama between a mom and daughter,” including that it could be filmed within the spring in New York and Madrid. No different particulars concerning the plot or Moore and Swinton’s roles was revealed.

Representatives for Moore didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark.

Almodóvar had beforehand acknowledged that his shorts “The Human Voice” and “Unusual Means 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 Handbook for Cleansing Ladies,” which Cate Blanchett was as a consequence of produce and star in, however dropped out in 2022.

“The Room Subsequent Door” marks Almodóvar’s first function since 2021’s “Parallel Moms,” which premiered in Venice. Penélope Cruz, who performs a single mom in a narrative that additionally entails the seek for lacking our bodies of these murdered in the course of the Spanish Civil Struggle, would go on to win the competition’s Volpi Cup for finest actress, whereas the movie garnered eight Goya Award nominations.

One of the vital acknowledged European administrators with an enormous worldwide following, Almodóvar’s earlier work contains “Speak to Her,” “The Pores and skin I Reside In,” “Ache and Glory,” and “Ladies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.”