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TimesOnline recently interviewed Tilda Swinton (The White Witch) on her new film I Am Love, which premieres April 9. Interestingly, Swinton says that “she never wanted to be an actress. ‘I still don’t. It’s a source of embarrassment that I am perceived as one.’
‘It all feels like a mistake. I was a writer. I went to Cambridge as a poet, and I stopped writing the second I got there. I think I read too much. I had a failure of nerve, I dropped my stitch and started performing in plays instead.’
During the interview, Swinton also shared her thoughts on her role in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and on television.
‘When I was asked to be in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, it was the best joke. Derek [Jarman] would have adored it, because his favourite film of all time was The Wizard of Oz. He loved that witch.’ The first two Narnia films grossed more than $1 billion, and she used to boast to the suits at Disney that there were only two tickets unsold around the globe: to her children, who had seen a trailer and declared it too loud. There is no television in their home, because their mother considers it a habit. ‘We just don’t have it. They go to a Steiner school, where they don’t have television, and now we’re really Rip Van Winkles.’
Click here for the complete interview. Warning: not family-friendly!