Tilda Swinton is on the cover of W's August issue with a mess of hot photos inside. And by hot I mean cool and by cool I mean sickening or whatever word is the new aspirational one to indicate people who are better than us.
Tilda is very tall but she's that much higher because we're always placing her on pedestals. But just look at her! Who can be blamed for building said pedestals, altars or shrines.
This next photo totally screams Victor/Victoria. I doubt Tilda could sing as well as Julie Andrews (but then, who could?) so maybe they should reinterpret it as a minimalist art film.
In addition to playing the woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman entertainer at the center, Tilda could play every role? I will now spend the next seventeen hours imagining Tilda in the Lesley Ann Warren / Norma Cassidy role. In fact, let's repurpose one of Norma's grandest quotes to speak of Tilda right now.
With you it's like 'Pow!Pow!Pow!' like the Fourth of July, every time!
Well it is with Tilda! You never have to fake it with her. She's orgasmic.
More photos after the jump...
I'm always surprised when actors confess to not being very aware of the Oscars but Tilda did come up through the very non-mainstream Derek Jarman world -- I still remember the first time I laid eyes on her (Edward II) -- so we'll take her word for it. Here's that bit from the interview.
W: Your last three leading roles [Julia, I Am Love, We Need To Talk About Kevin] have all detailed the complications of motherhood. Was this troika intentional?
TILDA: 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.