For Her Next Act, Tilda Swinton Takes Off the Disguise

Tilda Swinton stars in Pedro Almodóvar's debut English -language feature The Room Next Door .

Swinton plays Martha , a former war correspondent living with stage- three cervical cancer who enlists her longtime friend, Ingrid Moore , to help her die on her own terms.

The intimate drama just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival .

The Room Next Door is about two women who have known each other for 40 years .

The film is about the capacity to bear witness to someone in this kind of predicament is really a particularly personal event for me.

Working in improvisation with Joanna [Hogg] on the Souvenir [films] and The Eternal Daughter has made me curious about finding a new way of performing with text.

It would be a mistake for anglophone audiences to expect a kind of naturalistic English .

The End is also not especially concerned with naturalism.

It was thrilling to have lessons and have singing rehearsals and to sing in unison with my comrades. It was really, really a thrill. All of us were singing differently from each other for various reasons. We brought all different instruments and our voices had to have different characters.