Julianne Moore talks 'The Room Next Door'

With our friend Julianne Moore, the Oscar winner, getting rave reviews again for her role in The Room Next Door. Welcome back. Great to see you. Hi. It's so nice to see you. So tell us about The Room Next Door. Well, it's Pedro Almodovar's first English-language feature film, which is a very, very big deal. He's someone whose work I've, like, so admired over the years. I never imagined that I'd be able to participate in a movie in English. And so here it is. It's a movie about mortality and about, I think, especially about female friendship. Well, that's what I was going to ask you about, kind of a deep exploration of something we don't always see on screen. No, no. It's pretty rare, honestly. And these, you know, female friendships have been so important in my life and in most women's lives. And often, I think, on film, we see women depicted as antagonists or you see them in a love relationship or in a familiar relationship, but you don't see what we most often experience, which is friendship. Let's take a look at a clip. I made a list of stuff to buy. We need a few things. Is there anything you want me to get? Don't think so. You want to come to the store with me? Maybe another day. It's so nice here. I'd like to stay, if you don't mind. No, of course not. Friendship in kind of an extreme situation. Mm-hmm. Tilda Swinton's there in the scene with you. She now calls you her new best friend. Yeah. You know, we had known of each other. We had been friendly. We'd seen each other at, you know, film festivals and press conferences and things, but never really spent time together. And I'd always admired her, loved her work, and I loved kind of how she is in the world. And we actually got to be friends in real life, in real time, on the film. And that doesn't always happen, does it? No, it doesn't. It doesn't. But it was pretty wonderful. We're both the same age. We've had similar careers. Our children are the same age. We had a lot to talk about. We sort of bonded day by day, which is what happens when you build an actual friendship with somebody. You talked about Pedro Amadovar, the director. Yeah. He does almost all of his work in Spanish. What was it like working with him this time? He's a real artist, you know. He's an auteur. I mean, you see from that film clip, you see the way he tells stories is in color and in composition and poetic language and in humanity. I mean, he's a real humanist. I mean, this is a story about people and what they mean to each other and how we live day by day. He's a master. Is that what drives you now, getting to work with people you haven't had the chance to work with before and explore something? I think it's always driven me, honestly. I'm very interested in the community aspect of filmmaking. I like the idea of getting together and building something together because you don't work alone. You know, you really are. It's more than even what you see on screen. You know, there's a whole kind of world of people. There are production designers and camera operators and prop people and costume people. And we all come together and we construct this fantasy. Another world. Yeah, that's right. But it's a world that relates to our own world. So we're telling stories about what it means to be alive. Thanks for coming in today. Nice to see you. The Room Next Door opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 20th. Nationwide January 17th.