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>>NOAH COWAN - We're delighted here to have among the most accomplished actors in cinema,
her career has gone between some of the largest budgeted Hollywood films of all time and some
of the smallest budgeted independent European auteur films imaginable. So it is an enormous
delight to have Tilda Swinton here with us. Welcome Tilda.
>>TILDA SWINTON - Thanks Noah lovely to be with you here I have to say
>>NOAH COWAN - Thank you very much. We've been following you, I think the first time
I saw you on screen and what an incredible trip it has been with this Oscar in your back
pocket. I recall this raging beauty on the rooftop of some dilapidated structure in 'The
Last of England' in 1988.
>>TILDA SWINTON - 'The Last of England' was a film that was made out of absolutely sort
of documentary home movie experience. We never really intended to end making it if you know
what I mean, it's just a collation of our experience.
>>NOAH COWAN - The incredibly long relationship you had with Derek Jarman which began, I believe
with Caravaggio and went up until the very last works. Derek's life, Derek's work, how
does that affect your on-going practice as an actor?
>>TILDA SWINTON - Derek made it possible for me to be a performer in the first place. I
was never interested in being a performer and I don't think.. If I hadn't met him, I
don't think I possibly could have been one. He made it possible for me to enter this experiment
which went on for nine years through seven films of just working out in front in the
camera what I might be interested in terms of performing and so when he died I was really
up a gum tree because I knew I wasn't a professional and I had no interest in being a professional
but at the same time I had found a way of working in the cinema and I've just been constantly
looking for it ever since. And, miraculously, finding it in all sorts of strange areas that
one wouldn't have thought one would find it.
>>NOAH COWAN - This new film 'I am Love' feels as though it's perhaps the beginning of a
new chapter or what do you say that began with your collaboration with Béla Tarr?
>>TILDA SWINTON - It's an evolution, I mean I'm constantly working in development with
filmmakers but at the same time I've had this really strange adventure of being asked to
appear as the real bonna fide actor in Hollywood films or films funded outside of my kind of
sensibility. That's kind of over to be honest with you, I mean that was an experiment that
I was
>>NOAH COWAN - Really?
>>TILDA SWINTON - Yeah
>>NOAH COWAN - So you think that the Hollywood adventure is sort of reached a certain conclusion.
>>TILDA SWINTON - Yeah. For me it has. I have stuff to do. It was great while it lasted.
It was like a little, you know it was like a season of going to other people's parties
is how I describe it.
>>NOAH COWAN - Well I hope that that journey can continue. We are always so excited to
see what the next chapter is going to be in Tilda Swinton's life and her professional
career. Thank you so much
>>TILDA SWINTON - Thanks Noah It's nice to be here