Tilda Swinton (as Martha)

the time that we've been friends but also very much my experience of the last 15 years supporting and bearing witness to loved ones who've been dismounting as I like to think of it it's a great opportunity to place that witness up on a big screen for people, and with a kind of clear-eyedness, which I think is always emblematic of Almodovar's work.

He's so determined always not to look away, and that's absolutely what this film is about.

He's so determined always not to look away, and that's absolutely what this film is about.

He's so determined always not to look away, and that's absolutely what this film is about.

And also about surviving things of all kinds, surviving torturous relationships with our parents or surviving a long absence from a loved lover. It's always about overcoming and somehow scaring away the things that frighten us ourselves. And what they say, embrace the tiger, return to the mountain. That's very much his attitude to life. He is pretty fearless, I would say.

And also about surviving things of all kinds, surviving torturous relationships with our parents or surviving a long absence from a loved lover. It's always about overcoming and somehow scaring away the things that frighten us ourselves. And what they say, embrace the tiger, return to the mountain. That's very much his attitude to life. He is pretty fearless, I would say.

And also about surviving things of all kinds, surviving torturous relationships with our parents or surviving a long absence from a loved lover. It's always about overcoming and somehow scaring away the things that frighten us ourselves. And what they say, embrace the tiger, return to the mountain. That's very much his attitude to life. He is pretty fearless, I would say.

It was a profound blessing, Terry, because when he first sent me the script, I did have to double check with him who he was asking me to play. And when he, because as I say, I've been in what I call the Ingrid position so often in my life, and thankfully so, it is a... A great privilege to occupy that seat.

It was a profound blessing, Terry, because when he first sent me the script, I did have to double check with him who he was asking me to play. And when he, because as I say, I've been in what I call the Ingrid position so often in my life, and thankfully so, it is a... A great privilege to occupy that seat.

It was a profound blessing, Terry, because when he first sent me the script, I did have to double check with him who he was asking me to play. And when he, because as I say, I've been in what I call the Ingrid position so often in my life, and thankfully so, it is a... A great privilege to occupy that seat.

Ingrid is the witness. Ingrid is the name of the person who Julianne Moore plays. And when he told me that he wanted me to play Martha, I remember this sense of relief because it was the snow that I didn't know, because it was going to be a new track. But it was a snow that I'd wondered about for so long, having sat on the other side of the chasm, as I kind of think of it.

Ingrid is the witness. Ingrid is the name of the person who Julianne Moore plays. And when he told me that he wanted me to play Martha, I remember this sense of relief because it was the snow that I didn't know, because it was going to be a new track. But it was a snow that I'd wondered about for so long, having sat on the other side of the chasm, as I kind of think of it.

Ingrid is the witness. Ingrid is the name of the person who Julianne Moore plays. And when he told me that he wanted me to play Martha, I remember this sense of relief because it was the snow that I didn't know, because it was going to be a new track. But it was a snow that I'd wondered about for so long, having sat on the other side of the chasm, as I kind of think of it.

And I'd heard so many loved ones and friends saying to me, it's so much worse for you than me. I'm in the hot seat. I'm going down, but you're having to bear this. And so to test that was a very interesting project. And it did bear out, I have to say. There is something, I'm not suggesting that, I'm not, you know, don't want to be too grandiose about this.

And I'd heard so many loved ones and friends saying to me, it's so much worse for you than me. I'm in the hot seat. I'm going down, but you're having to bear this. And so to test that was a very interesting project. And it did bear out, I have to say. There is something, I'm not suggesting that, I'm not, you know, don't want to be too grandiose about this.

And I'd heard so many loved ones and friends saying to me, it's so much worse for you than me. I'm in the hot seat. I'm going down, but you're having to bear this. And so to test that was a very interesting project. And it did bear out, I have to say. There is something, I'm not suggesting that, I'm not, you know, don't want to be too grandiose about this.

I mean, this was a drama that we were figuring out. It I got a tiny bit closer to imagining myself in that position, and it's not a fearful place to be, I didn't find.

I mean, this was a drama that we were figuring out. It I got a tiny bit closer to imagining myself in that position, and it's not a fearful place to be, I didn't find.

I mean, this was a drama that we were figuring out. It I got a tiny bit closer to imagining myself in that position, and it's not a fearful place to be, I didn't find.

And yet, with a couple of exceptions, that fear dissipated and was replaced with something really inspiring, which was the essential acceptance of the inevitable. I mean, this is the thing that this film is really about. You say with accuracy that it's about suffering. And of course, technically it is about dying, but it's really more than anything, Terry, about living.