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Tilda Swinton arrived at ELLE’s Women in Hollywood event in Los Angeles this evening, hosted in partnership with Ralph Lauren, Harry Winston and TikTok. The room next door The star posed alone on the carpet, wearing a purple tweed midi dress with a brooch.

Swinton spoke ELLE’s Women in Hollywood issue about how she and co-star Julianne Moore connected on a deep level to create the project. Although their paths in Hollywood were parallel, they never had the chance to form a real friendship before working together.

“The story of this movie is these old, old friends,” Swinton told ELLE. She plays a war correspondent with stage 3 cancer while Moore plays her friend who confronts her own fear of death to help her.

However, off-screen, “we could have been old friends all these years,” Swinton said. “We are just making up for lost time. Now we are old friends, even though we have only been together for a year.

She also spoke about the film’s themes, which center around mortality. “The subject is really power,” she explained. “The feeling of helplessness with which we must deal in the face of mortality or, for that matter, aging. We must conform to the program: we are powerless. And that in itself is a kind of taboo. This is a particular taboo for men, due to the many toxic ways in which they are constantly raised to believe that they must be all-powerful at all times. And if it doesn’t, then something needs to be changed, usually through violence. But it’s also a real problem for women, because there’s this weird sort of blackmail, if you don’t feel powerful, you drop out. But being powerless in the face of mortality or aging is a grace. That’s life.

In her own life, Swinton isn’t sure what’s next in her career, if anything. “I always intended for every movie to be my last,” she said. “I didn’t want to spoil anything because I had so much fun from start to finish. I always thought, ‘Hey well, it’s a good idea to go out. Let’s stop while we’re ahead. And I’m feeling it today. The room next door is the last film I make. Let’s see if anything else happens.

Read her full interview on ELLE here.

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