The British actor’s new films show the full spectrum of her capabilities as the most unconventional of Hollywood A-listers
and Anderson set to premiere before the year is out, along with a voice role in Guillermo del Toro’s animatedEarlier in her career, few would have bet on Swinton winning an Oscar, and not for want of admiration.
, she won best actress at Venice in 1991 for her rampantly sexualised interpretation of Isabella of France in hisand a year later turned further heads as Virginia Woolf’s gender-switching title character in Sally Potter’s film of.
“Our outfit was an internationalist brigade. Decidedly pre-industrial. A little loud, a lot louche. Not always in the best possible taste. And not quite fit, though it saddened and maddened us to recognise it, for wholesome family entertainment.”, the sensual intensity of her presence eclipsing the size of the part.
For Cousins, it is “because she leapfrogs over the conventional way of doing things” that the perceived enigma of Swinton has been created. “She’s like the Road Runner in Chuck Jones’s cartoons: ahead, outrunning Wile E Coyote, the obvious or middlebrow,” he says. “In real life she’s practical – she stacked my dishwasher well – but even chatting over breakfast her brain is speeding.
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