Quirk Incarnate
Today Tilda Swinton turns 55. For many actresses that age would seem like a sentence, but not for her. Tilda from her youth paid little attention to her own appearance, and her creative gift is not based on beauty. She is one of the most extraordinary actresses of our time, and any, even the smallest, article about this woman in the press will contain epithets like “unusual”, “special”, “not like everyone else".In the USA-speaking society, there is a stereotype that an English aristocrat is a prim, exceptionally elegant lady. Actually this is not true. In British culture, it is customary for aristocrats to forgive eccentricity, moreover, everyone expects this eccentricity from them. A real lady or gentleman must have a couple of quirks. So in this sense, Catherine Matilda (Tilda) Swinton of Kimmerheim , a descendant of an ancient Anglo-Scottish clan, is quite a typical British aristocrat. And her quirks are not just a couple, perhaps she herself is a quirk embodied.  But in her environment, Matilda stood out. At ten years old, she was sent to a prestigious boarding school in Kent. This boarding school studied the color of the British aristocracy, including Lady Dee . Young Tilda remembers that time with distaste, claiming that the private school is the only thing that she cannot forgive her parents. She struggled with the system in a peculiar way - an excellent student and an athlete, being sent to the county championship, she pretended to stretch her leg. Tilda still disgusts private schools. So, she has an extremely negative attitude towards "Harry Potter", because the action of this episode takes place in a boarding school. The theater became the main outlet for the girl during her school years. She quite early became imbued with acting romance, and at the same time sang in the choir. She continued her education at Swinton at the equally prestigious college Fetts . After graduation, the sudden Tilda took off and volunteered for two years in schools in Kenya and South Africa. It was around this time that she joined the Communist Party . By the way, the actress still sympathizes with communist ideas, despite the fact that the party itself as such in Great Britain no longer exists. According to Tilda Swinton , communism for her is the ideals of justice. Returning from Africa, Matilda entered the women's college at Cambridge University , New Hall and continued to take part in various theatrical productions, and in 1983- m became a member of the troupe of the Royal Scottish Theater (from which many stars came, for example, Gary Oldman). But even here the soul of Swinton was not satisfied. She also played Juliet , but it was all wrong. Tilda longed for something more unconventional, interesting. Of course, as a girl from a wealthy family, to put it mildly, she could afford to be picky. But this in no way negates her undoubted talent and charisma.  Swinton made her way to Edinburgh, where she starred in several rather provocative performances, and also met her first husband, artist and playwright John Byrne. Meanwhile, her career was steadily going uphill. At the same time, Tilda was constantly rushing between theater and cinema, unable to choose what she liked best, although she certainly felt that she could not completely devote herself to both types of art with the same force. In addition, she was rather picky about her choice of roles. Tilda to this day prefers to act in auteur, avant-garde cinema, despite the fact that the official "blockbuster" Hollywood loves her very much. The first serious role of the aristocratic actress played in Derek Jarman's film "Caravaggio". In general, the actress worked quite closely with this director: in total, she took part in the filming of nine of his projects. At the same time, Tilda was filmed for other filmmakers, and it was during this period that one of her best films, "Orlando", fell. In it, Swinton played the role of a man who in the first part of the film is a man, and the second is a woman. This image was the best fit for our heroine, and not only because her appearance is known for its androgyny. For the overwhelming majority of actresses, their face and figure are their own bread, so with age, not all of them are able to remain at the top of film ratings, while other elderly actors are ready to act until their death. Swinton Since childhood, she decided to consider her external data insignificant, as she herself says, turned off sexuality and finds it quite comfortable. Therefore, she can afford any role, including those in which she looks ugly, non-sexual, unfeminine, old. And in all these forms, she invariably remains charismatic.  Denying her own sexuality in life, on the screen Tilda often embodied images filled with sensuality. And in combination with the unusual appearance of the actress, this only excited the audience. So, returning to the cinema after absence due to depression caused by the death of her friend and colleague Jarman , Tilda played in the film "Female Perversion". She got the role of a lawyer who hides depraved erotic fantasies under external decency. It seems that the denial of one's own femininity is rather a personal and quite conscious choice of the actress, since she may well be very attractive in the generally accepted sense. Not so long ago, in the film "Girl without complexes", Swinton impressed the audience with her ultra-feminine image. Swinton was slowly approaching Hollywood Olympus, preferring avant-garde cinema. After " Orlando ", a more or less large role was played by a woman from Tim Roth's film "War Zone", who finds out that her husband is raping her daughter. But the film "The Beach", in which she starred with Leonardo DiCaprio, became a real powerful impetus to the career of this actress. After that, the filmmakers of Hollywood paid close attention to the unusual girl. At the same time, Tilda was not at all happy to cling to any offer, she was still very picky about scripts: she preferred complex, provocative, ambiguous roles. So, in the film "At the Bottom" she played the mother of a homosexual whose lover was killed. The heroine hides the corpse and is then blackmailed. For this picture Swinton has received several awards and a nomination for a Golden Globe . In 2002, the actress performed four roles at once in the fantastic film Technosex, which was also very peculiar. Then there were "Young Adam", "The Sentence", "Bad Habit" and many other films, all as one - with specific roles.  In 2005, viewers were able to admire the amazing Tilda in three high-profile projects at once. In Constantine: Lord of Darkness, she joined Keanu Reeves as the archangel Gabriel . The unconventional androgynous appearance of the actress was the best fit for this image. She then appeared in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray and co-starring Sharon Stowe and Jessica Lange. By the way, Swinton recently starred with this director again - in the film "Only Lovers Alive" together with Tom Hiddleston, and it was, perhaps, one of the most extravagant and powerful duets in modern auteur cinema .  Also, one cannot fail to mention the fantasy "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" based on the work of the same name by Clive Lewis. Now, perhaps, it is difficult to imagine another White Witch . On the one hand, the appearance of Tilda is largely consistent with the description, on the other hand, in the book The Witch was dazzlingly beautiful with a special, peculiar cold beauty. And if you can argue about beauty, then with cold, solemn royalty and arrogance, the image of her heroine Swinton filled to overflowing. Since this event-rich year, Tilda Swinton has been regarded as a full-fledged first-line star in Hollywood. Then there will be "Michael Clayton" with George Clooney, for which the actress will receive " Oscars ", followed by " Golden Globe " and the BAFTA Award for Drama “Something is wrong with Kevin,” and, of course, The Grand Budapest Hotel, which has gathered a galaxy of stars and received many awards on its site.  At the moment, Swinton knows no shortage of proposals - and this is at an age when many actresses are already giving up. But the point is not only in her undoubted talent. She has always, since childhood, been special, and remains so to this day, not driving herself into any frame. And it attracts. Interview Tilda is always interesting to read, she is so unusual person. For example, Swinton does not drink alcohol at all, but at the same time claims that the most interesting people she met in her life were alcoholics. She also does not take drugs, but claims that the only such experience was extremely educational. So convincing on screen, she believes that any actor is just pretending, and in that sense there is no difference between being a witch or a housewife. And the actress would also prefer so that " Oscar " was brought home, as she was scared to stand on the stage at the time of the presentation. Tilda is not shy about admitting that until she was 17 she sucked her thumb and does not remember why she stopped. It upsets her that no one notices how funny she is behind her external coldness, and says that characters with serious faces scare her. True,"soft and fluffy"is also scary. She is a very caring mother, but at the same time, according to her own admission, she is completely devoid of shyness and does not understand what is so terrible about nakedness. In her youth, Tilda Swinton dreamed of being forty, and does not regret it at all. that until the age of 17 she sucked her thumb, and does not remember why she stopped. It upsets her that no one notices how funny she is behind her external coldness, and says that characters with serious faces scare her. True,"soft and fluffy"is also scary. She is a very caring mother, but at the same time, according to her own admission, she is completely devoid of shyness and does not understand what is so terrible about nakedness. In her youth, Tilda Swinton dreamed of being forty, and does not regret it at all. that until the age of 17 she sucked her thumb, and does not remember why she stopped. It upsets her that no one notices how funny she is behind her external coldness, and says that characters with serious faces scare her. True,"soft and fluffy"is also scary. She is a very caring mother, but at the same time, according to her own admission, she is completely devoid of shyness and does not understand what is so terrible about nakedness. In her youth, Tilda Swinton dreamed of being forty, and does not regret it at all. devoid of shyness and does not understand what is so terrible about nakedness. In her youth, Tilda Swinton dreamed of being forty, and does not regret it at all. devoid of bashfulness and does not understand what is so terrible about nakedness. In her youth, Tilda Swinton dreamed of being forty, and does not regret it at all.  And also Tilda Swinton , an aristocrat, actress and just an unusual woman, considers herself an absolutely happy person. Not the most frequent occurrence in a creative environment prone to beautiful suffering, but in her case it is quite understandable: this woman always acted as she wanted, and not as usual. Well, let it remain so, and we will wait for her new and, no doubt, memorable roles. The Topic of Article: Quirk Incarnate. |
