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| | Tilda Swinton: 'I was told to wear a mask at all times, and I?m not.' | | Added 644 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On film and television productions around the world, ?Covid protocols? became a thing for above-the-line and below-the-line workers. Meaning, there was mandatory Covid testing (usually nasal swabs), there was enforced masking and those Plexiglas helmets to mask actors? whole faces. Some studios even mandated vaccines, which I thought was smart. This was the new reality for everyone throughout 2020, 2021 and 2022. Now that we?re entering the fourth year of pandemic living, should those mask-wearing and testing protocols exist? According to Tilda Swinton, no. Tilda went to South by Southwest to promote her latest movie and she spoke out against? masking??
Tilda Swinton is over the pandemic, and she doesn?t care who knows it. She opened her keynote appearance at South by Southwest by sharing her pleasure that the pandemic had gotten to a point where audience members at the event didn?t have to wear masks anymore. Later in the conversation, Swinton said, ?I?m about to shoot a picture in Ireland, and I was told to wear a mask at all times, and I?m not.?
?I?m sure this is being recorded,? she noted, before saying that she is ?very healthy? after having gone through COVID-19 infections multiple times.
Interestingly, in 2022, Swinton spoke to W Magazine about the severity of one of her infections and the long COVID symptoms she was continuing to endure, including struggles with memory.
[From Variety]
Hilariously, during this same appearance, Swinton hit out on the arrogance and attitude of self-centeredness she sees within the film industry and the importance of ?staying collective.? What says ?for the good of the collective? more than one actress refusing to adhere to public health regulations. ?Salus populi suprema lex esto? = the health of the people is the supreme law. While I realize that most countries have loosened (if not completely removed) their masking, testing and quarantining regulations, that?s not for Swinton to unilaterally decide she?s not going to do it. When in Dublin, follow Irish rules and laws. She sounds so arrogant here.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Tilda Swinton wore a real Chanel gown in Cannes, no alien couture or anything | | Added 940 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. The big event/premiere was for Three Thousand Years of Longing, a George Miller film where Idris Elba plays a genie in a bottle and Tilda Swinton is the bookish professor who accidentally unleashes him. I would never have thought to put Idris and Tilda in a movie together, but here we are. At the premiere, Tilda wore Chanel. Idris looked dapper as hell.
Idris?s wife Sabrina Dhowre wore a custom Tony Ward gown and jewelry from Tiffany & Co. She looked STUNNING.
Bonus Tilda & Idris at the Saturday photocall. I wish I could wear comically oversized button-down shirts and just wander around the South of France.
Here?s Anne Hathaway at the Friday photocall for Armageddon Time. Her minidress is Gucci. She was trying to do a Bardot thing and it worked, although I hate those sunglasses!
Marion Cotillard wore a Chanel romper. From the front, I actually don?t hate this, but there are photos of Marion walking up the steps and half of her ass was hanging out. That?s why you don?t wear shorts to Cannes red carpets!
Casey Affleck, 46, and his 24-year-old girlfriend Caylee Cowan. My only comment is that she?s lovely and young and I hope she?s okay.
Photos courtesy of Instar, Avalon Red.
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| | Tilda Swinton: 'I always felt I was queer ' I was just looking for my queer circus' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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| | Tilda Swinton: 'I feel' that Scotland is a naturally independent country' | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Sometimes, it just calms me to see Tilda Swinton in a crazy outfit. She is my constant, my weird-alien constant. Tilda decided to promote Suspiria at the Vienna Film Festival on Monday, and she decided to wear one of the strangest outfits I?ve ever seen. The Schiaparelli Haute Couture dress itself is just bad a purple bodice, with weird beige-y sleeves and some kind of vague animal-print? But the addition of green gloves is especially strange. I?m not even going to bother questioning it, honestly. I appreciate that she?s one the few people doing weird sh-t just for the sake of it. Tilda also attended an art exhibition while she was in Vienna she happily posed with her younger lover, Sandro Kopp. She?s 57 (in human years) and he?s 40 you can see photos here.
I think Sandro lives in Scotland, with Tilda and her sons. Tilda has always lived in Scotland, but how does she feel about Scottish independence, or ?Great Britain? and all of that?
Tilda has repeatedly emphasised her nationality despite frequent confusion over her accents, which she has described as sounding like ?something out of 1930s BBC?. In a new interview with the BBC, Swinton has clarified her position, stating: ?I don?t quite believe the word British. I feel like it?s sort of a strictly-for-export term. I don?t really know what it means. I think it has something to do with a sort of political attitude.?
The Doctor Strange star, whose grandfather was Scottish politician George Swinton, went on: ?I have lived in Scotland full-time for the last 20 years, I was brought up in Scotland through my childhood, I am from a family that has lived in Scotland for centuries. I have never felt English, and I have never felt British, politically. I am happy to describe myself as Scottish and I feel, like many people, that Scotland is a naturally independent country.?
[From The National Scotsman]
I assume this means that she supports Scottish independence? Are they going to have another vote on that, or did it get sidelined by Brexit bullsh-t? I don?t really have a dog in this hunt, but I tend to believe that more often these days, Scottish people are feeling more like Tilda. It?s like a natural evolution they don?t feel British, they feel SCOTTISH.
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| | Tilda Swinton's Schiaparelli gown had sleeve-gloves: love it or hate it' | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from the Venice Film Festival premiere of At Eternity?s Gate. Tilda Swinton isn?t in the film, but she was already in Venice for Suspiria promotion, and I would guess that she?s probably friendly with Julian Schnabel, who directed it. Mostly I just want to talk about Tilda in this Schiaparelli gown. As it turns out, Kim Kardashian?s gloved Met Gala look was a harbinger of fashion disasters to come. Sleeve-gloves are the future. And they are hideous. Honestly, this whole look is terrible.
Naomi Watts in Dolce & Gabbana. I?m still sad that women wear D&G, but honestly, this is one of the better looks that Naomi has worn throughout this film festival. I think her stylist was on holiday or something, because Naomi?s fashion parade has been rough. This is fine though.
Chlo Sevigny in Chanel. While the dress isn?t my favorite thing, she looks great.
Bonus Mads Mikkelsen, looking like a snack, with his wife Hanne Jacobsen.
Here?s Natalie Portman in what I can only describe as a ?ladies? day cape.? This is from today we?ll have red carpet photos of Portman tomorrow.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Tilda Swinton: Children don't 'benefit' from posh boarding-school educations | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Everyone knows that Tilda Swinton is super-posh, right? We think of her these days as a weird alien-unicorn fully enmeshed in the avant-garde artsy-hipster life, but her upbringing was the same as many of the daughters of nobility. She actually went to boarding school with the then-Lady Diana Spencer, and by Tilda?s own accounts, she was expected to be poshly-well-educated and then marry someone with a title. In the years since then, she?s obviously gone on a different path, and she wants her twin sons to also have an individual, un-posh path. While many teenage boys with posh backgrounds would likely go to school at Eton or Harrow, Tilda enrolled her sons at a makeshift school she and some of her friends started in Scotland. The school sounds like a hippie fantasy ? there are no grades, no desks and no tests. Now Tilda is talking about how she hates the very posh-British way of educating kids, which is basically to ship them off to boarding school when they?re like eight years old.
Actress Tilda Swinton criticised the Harry Potter films for romanticising the ‘cruel’ boarding school experience. The star, 56, who boarded at the exclusive West Heath Girls’ School, in Sevenoaks, Kent, said it can be harmful to separate children from their parents at a young age. She added that she did not believe children ‘benefit’ from a boarding school education.
The actress told The Scots Magazine: ‘I think they are a very cruel setting in which to grow up and I don’t feel children benefit from that type of education. Children need their parents. That’s why I dislike films like Harry Potter, which tend to romanticise such places.’
Swinton’s experience of West Heath, where she was a classmate of Princess Diana, led her to setting up a liberal independent school near her home in Nairn, Scotland. Drumduan Upper School, which opened in 2013, has no tests or exams and students spend their days building boats and planting trees rather than sitting behind desks.
She added: ‘I grew up under privileged circumstances and was expected to marry a duke. I spent a lot of time and energy making certain that I would not find myself living a life that had been preordained for me.’
[From The Daily Mail]
Some people believe shipping kids off to boarding school is a great way to do things, and some don?t. I do tend to think of it as a cultural thing and it?s one of the big differences between how Americans view education versus how Europeans view it. There simply isn?t the same boarding-school tradition here in the US. While there are posh boarding schools here, even the wealthiest and poshest kids tend to stay at home and go to posh, exclusive day schools. But do we romanticize boarding schools? I don?t know. I think it?s a problem for Britain that Eton and Harrow-educated men basically run every part of British society. It does not speak to diversity of opinion, diversity of education, diversity of background. But that?s not the school?s fault.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Jake Gyllenhaal & Tilda Swinton are unrecognizable as they film 'Okja' in NY | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I just felt like something a little light for a moment. These are photos of Jake Gyllenhaal (seriously) and Tilda Swinton (for real) filming a new movie in New York over the weekend. They are filming Okja, directed by Joon-ho Bong, who also directed an unrecognizable Tilda in Snowpiercer. The plot of Okja is this: ?A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja.? It is being called ?adventure, drama, sci-fi? and some are even saying ?horror??
I honestly didn?t even recognize Tilda in these photos, but she?s always doing stuff like this. She loves to be in crazy makeup, wigs, fake teeth and more. I think it was Colin Firth who said something about how most actors secretly love all of that stuff, and most of them love the fact that they play dress-up for a living.
As for Jake? I didn?t recognize him at first, and that was probably the point. Jake?s career is all over the place, isn?t it? Some people really believe he?s one of the great actors of his generation, and some people are like ?ugh, Gyllenhaal.? I suspect that Jake just wanted to work with Joon-ho Bong, who is one of the most interesting directors working today.
PS? Remember when Jake Gyllenhaal dumped Taylor Swift over the phone? Haha, I wish Jake would tweet something about the #KimExposedTaylorParty.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Tilda Swinton: 'I wasn't asked to play an Asian character' in 'Doctor Strange' | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some assorted photos of Tilda Swinton in NYC on Thursday. She was in town to attend a screening for her film A Bigger Splash (the white coatdress photos), and she also got pap?d running errands in a fabulous grey coat. While her interviews this week are supposed to be about A Bigger Splash (a small European film), she?s ended up fielding questions about her role in Doctor Strange. A lot has been said and written about Tilda?s casting as ?The Ancient One.? The Ancient One, in the original comic books, was a Tibetan man who trained Stephen Strange in the art of magic and sorcery. When Tilda was cast, some applauded the character?s gender change and some shaded the Hollywood whitewashing. Until now, Tilda hasn?t said much of anything about it. But she did say words to THR this week.
Before Marvel dropped the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange, the film was praised not only for the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular neurosurgeon, but also for the re-characterization of the Ancient One, the powerful sorcerer who takes the superhero under his wing to teach him the mystic arts. In fact, that male character would be played by a woman ? Tilda Swinton. However, the Ancient One is originally a Tibetan-born male and appears to be another instance of Hollywood’s cultural appropriation of Asian characters.
Yet Swinton ? who was well aware of the backlash, and acknowledged it ? hopes to reassure Marvel fans. “Well, it’s not actually an Asian character ? that’s what I need to tell you about it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter at a Thursday night screening of A Bigger Splash at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. “I wasn’t asked to play an Asian character, you can be very well assured of that.”
She added with a smile, “You just have to wait and see, because it’s not an Asian character.”
[From THR]
Et tu, Tilda? Sigh. I will see her point ? sort of ? that the SCRIPT version of the story never had The Ancient One as a Tibetan man. But she?s being too cute by half if she thinks that the Hollywood whitewashing controversy can be shrugged off that way. The original source material for the script had The Ancient One as a Tibetan man, and the screenwriters and producers decided to change the character from the source material. It?s like if someone wrote a script where Martin Luther King is a white frat bro and they cast Scott Eastwood to play MLK and he said, ?Dude, that?s how the part was written!!!?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Tilda Swinton was hired for 'Doctor Strange' to avoid a racist caricature | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Tilda Swinton was pretty much confirmed for Doctor Strange several months ago, but only officially confirmed for the role recently. Tilda is playing The Ancient One, a character which was traditionally an old, Tibetan man in the comic books. The fact that Marvel had the opening to hire an Asian actor but ended up hiring a white woman has caused some consternation. On one side, yay feminism because an actress got hired for a role that would have gone to a dude. On the other side, boo racism because why does Marvel have to whitewash this character (or any character)?
I tended to think that since the Chinese market for Marvel films has grown by leaps and bounds, Marvel simply didn?t want to have an ethnically Tibetan actor, or an actor playing a Tibetan. But in Entertainment Weekly?s new issue, Marvel honcho Kevin Feige explains why Tilda was hired:
One of the most important characters in the Doctor Strange comics is the Ancient One, a mystic who lives in Tibet and acts as a mentor to Strange?s surgeon-turned-superhero. Traditionally, the Ancient One has been depicted as an Asian man. But in Marvel?s new superhero movie Doctor Strange (out Nov. 4), the character is played by non-Asian actress Tilda Swinton. What gives?
?We?re never afraid to change,? says Doctor Strange producer and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. ?In the comic books, Jarvis is an elderly butler. In the movies, he?s an A.I. system which becomes Paul Bettany?s Vision. We are always looking for ways to change. I think if you look at some of the early incarnations of the Ancient One in the comics, they are what we would consider today to be quite, sort of, stereotypical. They don?t hold up to what would work today. Also, within the storyline of the comics, and our movie, ?the Ancient One? is a title that many people have had. We hit very early on on, What if the Ancient One was a woman? What if the title had been passed and the current Ancient One is a woman? Oh, that?s an interesting idea. [Clicks fingers.] Tilda Swinton! Whoah! And it just hit.?
However, there seems to be some doubt as to whether Swinton is playing a woman in the film. ?Look, she?s a chameleon in everything she does,? says Feige of Swinton, whose credits include Snowpiercer, Trainwreck, and 1992?s Orlando, in which her character transformed from male to female. ?She has this amazing [ability to] harness of this androgynous sense. So, we use the term ?her? and ?she? in the film but, other than that, it?s very androgynous. Because it doesn?t matter.?
Indeed, when EW asks Swinton whether she is playing a man or a woman in Doctor Strange the actress responds, with a cackle, that ?I wouldn?t know how to answer that one. I think it?s all in the eye of the beholder.?
[From EW]
I sort of understand it now. Marvel was actually trying to avoid the racist Asian caricature seen in the source material (see: Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany?s), so instead of simply updating the material and creating a role for an Asian actor which would have been three-dimensional and not racist, Feige just decided to do a mulligan on the character. Does it still piss you off? I?m pretty ambivalent about the whole thing.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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