The Room Next Door: Why Pedro Almodóvar resisted ‘temptation’ of lesbian storyline: ‘I decided against it’

Pedro Almodóvar, and Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in The Room Next Door (Images: Warner Bros. Pictures)

Pedro Almodóvar has revealed he decided against the “temptation” to add an overtly lesbian storyline to his new film, The Room Next Door.

Indeed, while many of the Spanish auteur’s previous films – from Pain and Glory to All About My Mother to Bad Education – directly explore LGBTQ themes, his latest offering is more ambiguous.

In the Oscar-tipped movie, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore play old friends who reconnect when Tilda’s character nears the end of her life.

While the pair’s reconnection is passionate, it is seemingly platonic – although Almodóvar recently told Attitude that it is an “almost romantic relationship” that could potentially “become” love.

“I had the temptation to make

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