Tilda Swinton Hints at Upcoming Project with Out Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar

There are few actors who possess the blend of screen presence, cinematic charisma, and sheer radiance of Tilda Swinton, which might explain why the actor remains so much in demand.

Swinton kicked off her feature film career in 1986 with openly gay director Derek Jarman and followed up a string of other films with him. But Jarman is far from the only openly gay director Swinton has worked with. She teamed with Apichatpong Weerasethakul for 2021's "Memoria" and Luca Guadagnino for 2018's "Suspiria," and she's got an upcoming film, "Problemista," with Julio Torres of "Los Espookys" fame.

Perhaps her most intriguing creative partnership right now, though, is with Pedro Almodóvar, who will be following up his English language short film "Strange Way of Life" with a full-length feature in which Swinton stars.

Of the Almodovar project, Swinton told French publication Les Inrockuptibles that she was "not allowed to talk about" it, but, The Film Stage noted, she did let loose with a few tidbits when talking with Spanish language outlet Página 12, saying that the movie (which begins production next spring) will have dialogue written "in the language of Shakespeare" – no pressure for Almodóvar, whose trepidation about shooting an English language film is well known (and was supposedly one reason he declined to direct the 2005 gay romance "Brokeback Mountain").

Moreover, Swinton revealed, the movie will "center on the friendship between three women, played by two British actresses and an American," The Film Stage added.

Swinton is also set to re-team with Apichatpong for a movie she's even more tight-lipped about – though, The Film Stage speculated that it might be "the same one that Apichatpong has admitted to planning, but with both mentioning the Sri Lanka location, hopefully it's his Arthur C. Clarke-inspired feature."