Tilda Swinton, 64, teases retirement as she promotes her latest film The Room Next Door

Tilda Swinton often considers her next film could be her swan song.

The actress, 64 who is starring with Julianne Moore, also 64, in The Room Next Door, told Elle, ‘I’ve always intended that each film would be my final one.’

The British actress stars as a war correspondent diagnosed with stage three cancer in the drama directed and co-written by Pedro Almodóvar.

Her character, Martha, reconnects with Moore’s Ingrid after years apart with a special request as she approaches death.

The movie won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and is considered a serious contender for the upcoming Hollywood awards season.

Swinton explained why she approaches each project as her last. ‘It was not wanting to jinx anything because I have had such fun from start to finish,’ she told the outlet.

‘I always thought, ‘Well, that’s a good one to go out on. Let’s just quit while we’re ahead.’ And I feel it today. I feel The Room Next Door is the last film I make.’

‘Let’s see if anything else happens,’ she said.

Something did happen.  Swinton recently wrapped work on The Ballad of a Small Player.

It’s a psychological drama co-starring Colin Farrell and Fala Chen. 

She also stars in another film, The End, as the mother of a wealthy family living in a salt mine, who have their lives upended when they encounter a stranger. 

Swinton credited her longevity in the movie business to her ability to make a family with her co-workers. 

‘I’m really grateful, because I don’t know that if I hadn’t continued to find these families, if I would be interested in working,’ she told the publication.

‘I don’t think of myself as an industrial animal at all, you know, the way in which industry tends to divide people up and tends to concentrate on individual skills. My skill, if I have anything, is finding collaborators.’  

Swinton, 64, is starring with Julianne Moore, 64, in The Room Next Door, as a war correspondent diagnosed with stage 3 cancer who re-connects with an old friend and asks her an unusual favor

The drama, co-written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The movie opens in theaters December 20 

Swinton explained why she approaches each project as her last. ‘It was not wanting to jinx anything because I have had such fun from start to finish,’ she told the outlet; seen in September 

The versatile actress who joined the Marvel universe via 2016’s Dr. Strange and again in 2019’s Avengers: End Game, which seems to have increased her popularity with younger moviegoers.

The Oscar winner was ‘doing a night shoot (in Mexico) and all these street kids came up and flocked around me, because they’d seen the [first] Narnia film. And I thought, ‘How amazing.”

‘Maybe Marvel fans will come and see an Almodóvar film,’ she suggested. 

The Room Next Door opens in theaters December 20.  The End makes its debut December 6 and goes wide December 13.