https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/magazine/tilda-swinton-interview.html#permid=138113367

TILDA

Take notes. Tilda Swinton gives the New York Times an edge. An edge they frequently cover up with the contradiction between the fact that no one even knows what art is, and the fact that outreach as art for the sake of art even finds its tiny way to advertising. Let’s not upset the horses. Tilda Swinton reminds me that if she wanted, she would ride those horses like Lady Godiva, everything or nothing. I’m autistic, and I am always dazzled by this woman, and what did it all mean. “We Need To Talk about Kevin was physically stunning as we witnessed a terrified and masked woman in way over her head with a child more than a little challenging. Challenging as a word is ephemeral as a talk about Kevin grinds into we need to find what is going on in this kid’s head. The whole film is a head trip. Art was the only option, and as an actor, she knew it. Tilda Swinton is riveting. Writing. Acting. Modeling. She turns all of these things into art itself. Other writers like Swinton struggle for years to find that voice. Art transcends. Even as the bad guy, she transcends. She isn’t standing there for a portrait. What can I do to not just stand here. My arms. My arms. Tilda is the camera. The New York Times offers us art as an aside. Marginalization is not art. A big box of fun things. Yet Swinton moves fluidly through it, challenging portraiture in her arms. But catch the eyes because she’s immediately your art teacher and seduction. She doesn’t play seduction. She is seduction.