Overview

• In an AARP interview published Sept. 18, the 78-year-old said, “It was my idea,” adding she “didn't want to put [her] clothes back on.”
• The film adapts Tove Jansson’s novel, with Close playing a grandmother who takes a solitary nude walk in a forest.
• Close, newly a grandmother herself, said the life change sharpened her approach to the role.
• After a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Music Box Films release reached theaters on Sept. 19.
• Close next appears in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, slated for a Nov. 26 theatrical run before a Dec. 12 Netflix debut.