Rumor: Anya Taylor-Joy to Play Tilda Swinton’s Daughter in Almodovar’s ‘Room Next Door’

Last week I alluded to Anya Taylor-Joy having joined the cast of Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door.”

As you know, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Turturro have already been cast and there’s just the role of Swinton’s daughter left to be announced. There have been some rumors that Anya Taylor-Joy has signed on for that role.

It kind of makes sense. Swinton and Taylor-Joy do have that distinct mother-daughter look, it’d be genius casting on the part of Almodóvar. The filmmaker has also shown, in the past, great interest in working with Taylor-Joy, and so has she. Here’s what Almodovar had to say about her in 2021:

I liked is “The Queen’s Gambit” a lot and I absolutely adored the actress, who I’ve read in an interview wants to work with me and I’m going to tell her yes. I will contact her to tell her absolutely because she has an appearance, a look, that’s very interesting to me; she can be a thousand different characters and she’s a very good actress.

Last year, Almodóvar had confirmed that two of the actresses cast in “The Room Next Door” were British and the other two were American, adding that all three were his first choices and that they had all immediately accepted his offer to star in the film.

“The Room Next Door” is the story of an imperfect mother and a spiteful daughter, separated by a “great misunderstanding”. The mother, played by Swinton, is a war reporter. While Moore will play an autofiction writer, and friend of the mother.

The film, which will be shot this coming March, is said to portray how “death, friendship and sexual pleasure can fight life’s horrors," according to Almodóvar.