Tilda Swinton long awaited to work with Julianne Moore, before starring in their upcoming drama-comedy The Room Next Door.

During the New York Film Festival premiere of The Room Next Door on Friday, Oct. 4, Tilda, 63, shared her long-standing wish to work with her now co-star Julianne Moore, also 63.

The actress reminisced during a post-screening discussion, explaining that writer-director Pedro Almodóvar had emailed her the script for the film, which centers on two close friends as one faces the final stages of her life. 

When he asked Swinton who she wanted to work alongside, she knew exactly who to suggest.

“There was one face, one name,” Swinton said, talking about Moore.

“I was trepidatious because I thought, ‘What if he has another name or a list of names?’ And I had the nerve to type out a name, press send. And his email crossed with mine and ding…”

Almodóvar, who also attended the premiere with Moore alongside John Turturro, chimed in and said about the past interaction, “It was the best idea.”

Swinton again continued, “It was unimaginable. It could not have been anybody else.”

She seemed to find similar grounds with the characters’ story in the movie, relating it to her own relationship with Moore, saying that the movie revolves around a “beautiful” tale of “friends from a long time ago who haven’t seen each other for a couple of decades who are exactly the same age.”

The actress said, “Julianne and I are pretty much the same age but we’ve only met a couple of times, very much in passing in the corridors of film festivals.” She suggested that, during those interactions, she had “a good hunch that we would likely want to be around each other.”

“I had a slight fantasy of working together once, but how could we imagine this?” she added. “We came together, not as old friends [but] we made up for lost time, I would say. Pedro [Almodóvar] said we never stop talking, it’s true.”

Rachel Zegler, Nicola Coughlan, Lukas Gage and other celebrities will appear in Sabrina Brier’s upcoming comedy audiobook, That Friend.

Sabrina’s new book, which will be published by Simon & Schuster Audio, will revolve around “comedic misadventures of Sabrina, who is living in New York and dreams of building her own media empire,” per synopsis.

“The audiobook follows her as she navigates her new career goals, along with friendship and dating in the city,” read the synopsis.

In a statement shared with PEOPLE, Lara Blackman, Simon & Schuster Audio’s senior acquisitions editor, said, “That Friend is all about bringing the world Sabrina’s created on TikTok to life in a more expansive, exciting way than ever before — and casting was a huge part of that.”

“While Sabrina tends to star in videos on her own, the audiobook is full of one-of-a-kind characters that each bring something unique to the story, and we’re lucky to have found the perfect voice for each with this talented group of actors,” stated Lara.

That Friend audiobook will reportedly feature celebrity cameos including Rachel, Nicola, Danielle Brooks, Guillermo Diaz, Anthony Ramos and Rache Dratch.

However, the main cast of the audiobook also included Jo Ellen Pellma, Sonya Balsara and Kiah McKirnan as Sabrina’s three best friends Alice, Varsha and Kat respectively.

Lukas will also play Sabrina’s crush Brad, and internet personality Connor Wood will play Jack, her podcast producer.

Meanwhile, That Friend is going to release on January 28, 2025

Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried are all set to join hands on the big screen for a psychological thriller.

The fellow actresses are set to lead in The Housemaid, a film adaptation of Freida McFadden’s best-selling novel of the same name. 

Directed by Paul Feig, who is known for his work on Bridesmaids and A Simple Favor, the psychological thriller will be brought to life under Lionsgate’s banner.

Sweeney will take on the role of Millie, a young woman eager for a new beginning when she lands a job as a housemaid for a wealthy couple, Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew. However, as the official synopsis hints, “Millie soon learns the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.”

“I’m thrilled to have The Housemaid join our upcoming slate,” Adam Fogelson, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chairman, said in a statement, as per Deadline.

“A great filmmaker and a great cast with a great script from a great book is a terrific place to start. My prior work experiences with Paul and Amanda have been nothing short of spectacular, and Sydney is as talented and compelling as can be.”

Erin Westerman, the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-president, also shared his thoughts.

“Part of the fun of the book was imagining the cast while we read it, and Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried are perfect for Millie and Nina — they’re both mysterious, nuanced, and incredibly skilled at becoming characters who don’t reveal everything right away,” he said.

Jenna Fischer, The Office star, recently revealed battling cancer, and gushed about how Angela Kinsey was the one always by her side.

“For a long time, she was the only person in my workspace who knew,” Fischer wrote about her co-star, with whom she also hosts the Office Ladies podcast, in an Instagram post in which she announced her breast cancer battle.

“When I lost my hair, she wore hats to our work meetings so I wouldn’t be the only one,” the actress added about Kinsey, who she said “protected me and advocated” for her during the tough times.

“When I needed a break, we took one. I am so lucky to have a career with this kind of flexibility. Cancer treatment requires a lot of flexibility. For a gal who likes to plan, that was a hard adjustment. But, continuing to work has brought so much joy to my life during treatment.”

“Triple positive breast cancer is an aggressive form of breast cancer but it is also highly responsive to treatment,” Fischer wrote in the caption of the same post.

“In January, I had a lumpectomy to remove the tumor. Luckily my cancer was caught early and it hadn’t spread into my lymph nodes or throughout the rest of my body, however because of the aggressive nature of triple positive breast cancer it still required chemotherapy and radiation to be sure it didn’t return,” she recalled.

“In February I began 12 rounds of weekly chemotherapy, and in June I started three weeks of radiation. And while I continue to be treated with infusions of Herceptin and a daily dose of Tamoxifen, I’m happy to say I’m feeling great.”

The ABC sitcom star shared that she was diagnosed with triple positive breast cancer last December but is now celebrating being cancer-free after undergoing surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.