She might be stepping back. Tilda Swinton said her new drama with Julianne Moore, “The Room Next Door,” may be her final film. “I’ve always intended that each film would be my final one,” Swinton, 64, told Elle in a recent interview.
“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.” The British actress added, “I feel ‘The Room Next Door’ is the last film I make. Let’s see if anything else happens.
” If Swinton does retire, she’d be finishing a career that has lasted over 30 years, won her an Oscar, and featured her in a wide variety of films, from “Burn After Reading” and “Snowpiercer” to “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and the “Chronicles of Narnia” series. Swinton would join the ranks of Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, 67, who also retired — although he can’t seem to stay retired. Swinton already has another movie in the works, so her words may not be quite true.
She’ll be in Netflix’s “The Ballad of a Small Player,” co-starring Colin Farrell. According to 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.” “The Room Next Door” follows Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton), two women in their 60s who were friends in their youth but haven’t seen e.