I’m not expecting a ton of comments on this post, which is too bad because I genuinely enjoy covering anything having to do with Tilda Swinton. Tilda did some meager press on behalf of her out-of-nowhere supporting role in Trainwreck, and one of those interviews was with The Guardian. This isn’t a typical interview – there are only a handful of quotes from Tilda – but it’s an excellent profile of her career, how delightfully strange she is and how utterly beloved she is by directors. Here are my favorite parts:

Why she plays such weird characters: “The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society’s obsession with identity, because I’m not sure that I really believe identity exists.”

Working with indie directors: “Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.”

Being cast as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange: She will soon start shooting a Marvel blockbuster, Doctor Strange, but there is a Swinton-esque twist – she doesn’t yet know if she will play the part as a man or a woman.

[From The Guardian]

First of all… Tilda sort of blew my mind. What if identity doesn’t exist? What if we’re not how we define ourselves because there is no such thing as “definition” or “oneself”? As for Tilda possibly playing The Ancient One as a man… that’s interesting. The character is written as a man and I guess it really doesn’t matter if Tilda plays the character as a man, woman or “undetermined.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.