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
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.
Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.
To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.
Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.
There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.
There's something radical about a coming-of-age story that's about everyone trying to come of age at the same time, ... It's not so much about growing up as growing on. There's something compassionate about parents not knowing what they're doing.
Don't you think... the festival has, I don't know, gone a little funny this year?
Well, it's kind of what I do, to be honest with you,
I was one of the very few people brought up on these islands who hadn't been given the books along with my mother's milk. So I came to it with a beginner's mind. I still haven't read them all, but I thought it was a good read, and I thought it would make a good film. So I was very happy to do it. When I met with Andrew Adamson I just thought he was the right person for the job.
till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.
She's not a talker, or an intellectual, and she's a woman at a certain stage of her life who's already made a certain amount of choices.
She's not a 'normal' mom, but who knows what that is anymore? ... But she learns I think the most important lesson of parenting. You have to tell your kids, 'I'm watching you.'
I felt clearly that the atmosphere of the film is about loneliness, and existentialist loneliness - in all the characters, including my own.
It's pretty much the best original screenplay I've ever read, for a start. Then there's the team - they're a fantastic group of people.