Perhaps best known for her Oscar-winning turn in
Tony Gilroy’s
Michael Clayton and the long, fruitful collaboration she enjoyed with the late
Derek Jarman,
Tilda Swinton has acted recently for
David Fincher,
Joel and Ethan Coen, Hungarian auteur
Béla Tarr, and in
Andrew Adamson’s
Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Her flinty, fearless performance as an alcoholic outlaw in
Erick Zonca’s cross-border thriller
Julia, however, truly spotlights the impressive range and cool professionalism of this adventurous, one-of-a-kind screen actress. (She also appears in
Jim Jarmusch’s
The Limits of Control, which opened last Friday.) We caught up with Swinton in New York to talk about her role in the film, why she’d always wanted to portray a resourceful drunk, and how the indie-film world has changed since her heyday with Jarman in Britain’s underground cinema.
-- Damon Smith
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#posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 5/07/2009 12:44:00 PM
