The riveting and always astounding, actress Tilda Swinton looks smoking hot on the new cover of W magazine's August edition. On it, she gives a perfect lesson in how to strut your clothes and not let the clothes wear you. Thee entire ensemble was designed and created by Salvatore Ferragamo. The luscious parring of the Tuxedo Jacket and thee matching gloves and wide brimmed hat with the silk blouse is simply divine looking. Tilda's quite perfect, her film repertoire is flawless, and she has solidified herself as one of cinema's leading iconic actresses of her generation (mine included).
On her latest film, We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which she plays the mother of a violent, disturbed boy..."When we were trying to finance this movie, we would reference Rosemary’s Baby. It’s every pregnant woman’s nightmare to give birth to the devil. And every mother worries that she won’t connect to her children. When I had my children [13-year-old twins Xavier and Honor], my manager asked me what project I wanted to work on next. I said, “Something Greek, perhaps Medea.” Nobody quite understood what I meant, what I was feeling.”
In films, mothers are mostly characterized by their love and affection for their children. It takes courage to challenge the sainted idea of maternal perfection. Did that scare you..? "I don’t think I’m courageous. One man’s courage is another man’s comfort zone. The movie, which is based on a novel by Lionel Shriver, explored a taboo subject: the idea of a less than perfect mother. I knew that, when an audience watched the film, there would be a gag reflex at some point. But I was fascinated by the subject—it scared me, and that interested me."
On getting offered more bad guy roles since winning an Oscar for Michael Clayton... "Not really, although villains are a diffusion line in my repertoire [Laughs]. The only movie of mine that my children have seen is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, where I played the evil White Witch. My daughter said it was too loud. They’re just not Disney kids: They live in Scotland and don’t have a television. When I brought my Oscar home and showed the children, nobody knew what it was. The thing sat on the kitchen table for two weeks. It was kind of meaningless to them."
Your last three leading roles have all detailed the complications of motherhood. In Julia, you played an alcoholic who kidnaps a baby; in I Am Love, you played a bourgeois Milanese housewife who has an affair that destroys her family; and in Kevin, you have subverted the idea of maternal love. Was this troika intentional..?"Absolutely. I call them my mother-lode trilogy—we’re working toward a boxed set [Laughs]. These movies are documentaries of a sort, where complication is the name of the game. They were all parts that I grew."
Grew..? "I don’t get parts, I grow parts. All three of those movies took years to finance and create. A “Hollywood” movie like Michael Clayton is a holiday for me."
You won an Oscar for that holiday..!
"Yes, that was lovely, but I have to admit that I’d never seen the Oscars on television and really had no idea that it was so important. It was a very long show, but it did move me up from the children’s table, professionally, in Hollywood."
Did it have meaning for you..? "Not really [Laughs]. After winning, I went straight to Milan and started I Am Love. Since then, I haven’t done another Hollywood film."
Scoot over to WMagazine.com for thee rest of Tilda's full-featured article!
Film Trailer: "We Need To Talk About Kevin"
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