Send us your questions for Tilda Swinton
Activist, writer, model, performance artist: Tilda Swinton has so many strings to her bow that calling her an actor feels insufficient. Perhaps more successfully than any actor working today, she has straddled the boundary between arthouse and mainstream cinema, equally at home in a billion-dollar franchise like The Chronicles of Narnia as she is in films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Born in London in 1960 to an aristocratic military family of Scottish descent, Swinton later rejected her conservative upbringing, embracing leftwing politics, poetry and experimental theatre. On graduating from Cambridge the filmmaker Derek Jarman became her friend and mentor, casting her in numerous films and leading to her breakout role in Sally Potter’s Orlando.
Her collaborations with Jarman set the tone for an acting career defined by long and fruitful relationships with directors including Luca Guadagnino, Wes Anderson and her schoolfriend Joanna Hogg, whose new film, The Eternal Daughter, stars Swinton in two separate roles. She is also known for organising film festivals in the Highlands, co-founding a successful Steiner school, and becoming a darling of the haute couture catwalk.
To coincide with the release of The Eternal Daughter, Tilda Swinton will be answering questions from famous fans and Observer readers as part of an interview in the New Review. So if you’ve ever wanted to ask Swinton how she prepares for an immersive role or what she wears when walking her dogs – now’s your chance.
To submit a question, please fill in the form below, email review@observer.co.uk or tweet @ObsNewReview by Monday 9 October
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