Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton of Kimmerghameis a British actress, performance artist, model, and fashion muse, known for both arthouse, independent and mainstream films. She began her career in films directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio in 1985. In 1991, Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance as Isabella of France in Edward II. She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando in 1992 and was nominated for the European Film Award...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 November 1960
CityLondon, England
I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.
George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.
I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.
The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.
It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.
The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and The Ancient One has got the knowledge. And so what you're seeing today is a part of the whole training section when he's learning the moves and digging deep. So it's all about that, it's all about trying to push him to get there.
When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.
I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.
I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.
The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.
Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.
Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.
I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.