Til­da Swin­ton will star in Joan­na Hogg’s oth­er upcom­ing film

For us here at LWLies HQ, one of the most hot­ly antic­i­pat­ed titles on the high­ly ten­ta­tive cal­en­dar for 2021 is The Sou­venir Part II, Joan­na Hogg​’s fol­low-up to her loose­ly auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal mem­oir of artistry and pas­sion in her youth. But while Hogg’s fan­base (we pre­fer to be called Wild Hog­gs) awaits the release of her next fea­ture, we can already start to get excit­ed about her next next fea­ture.

The lat­est issue of UK Vogue includes a lengthy chat between play­wright Jere­my O Har­ris and Til­da Swin­ton, in which the movie star and reg­u­lar Hogg play­er reveals that anoth­er col­lab­o­ra­tion between the two is already in the can. After appear­ing in the first install­ment of the Sou­venir and its upcom­ing sequel, Swin­ton will also star in a film dis­cov­ered to be titled The Eter­nal Daughter.

Swin­ton doesn’t give up too much in the way of details dur­ing the inter­view, but the shoe-leather sleuths over at The Film Stage did some dig­ging and found that Swin­ton will star along­side the­atre vet Joseph Mydell and rel­a­tive unknown Car­ly-Sophia Davies. Pro­duc­tion has report­ed­ly wrapped fol­low­ing a shoot in Wales, mean­ing that Hogg could have a pair of fes­ti­val con­tenders on her hands film fes­ti­vals become an exis­tent phe­nom­e­non again.

In relat­ed Til­da Swin­ton news, she’ll also lead the next direc­to­r­i­al project from mas­ter cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er Christo­pher Doyle, a sci-fi pic­ture (more sci than fi) called Immun­od­e­fi­cien­cy. Swin­ton will por­tray a ​“bee pro­fes­sor” who trav­els to Aus­tralia only to be kid­napped by an ​“obses­sive young woman,” a com­ment from Doyle on the urgent dan­ger of colony col­lapse and loom­ing mass bee extinction.

Swin­ton has the in-demand career so many actors dream of, when you’re reg­u­lar­ly called on by the world’s top auteurs around the globe to car­ry their high-pro­file art films. (She’s got the lead in Apichat­pong Weerasethakul​’s Eng­lish-lan­guage debut Memo­ria, also com­ing down the pike.) Her fruit­ful sym­bio­sis with Hogg is just one of many long-term part­ner­ships – with the Coens, with Bong Joon-ho, with any direc­tor look­ing for the ethe­re­al pres­ence only Swin­ton can provide.