Tilda Swinton: A True Amazonian

Okay, so maybe you didn't much like the one-armed hunting toga she wore to the Oscars, but Tilda Swinton is perfectly happy without your approval of her life choices! This much and more was made crystal clear in Monday's Daily Mail in an article entitled, "Tilda Swinton shares her Oscar joy with young lover...while her children's father stays home."

Turns out that the pale English beauty, who looks ungodly good for 47, lives perfectly happily in a ménage à trois in Scotland with artist John Byrne, 68 (who is the father of her two children), AND her 29-year-old German lover, Sandro Kopp.

Personally, I have enough on my hands trying to keep one husband and a six-year-old entertained. How does Tilda do it?

Quoth the Mail:

"Tilda sat with 29-year-old Kopp in the audience at today's ceremony, and he was the first to congratulate her on her win.

"She was pictured on the red carpet with her son, but clearly fearing widespread publicity over her unconventional romantic life, kept German-born artist Sandro, who she travelled to Los Angeles with, away from the media glare."

Swinton met her young lover on the set of The Chronicles of Narnia. One can only imagine: Mmm, that Mr. Tumnus is awfully cute, but I think I'll dangle some Turkish delight over that brilliant visual designer over there and see if he bites.

Okay, that's me being silly, but honestly, unmarried couples these days seem to have it together a lot better than the married ones, among Hollywood folk, at least. We have Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins trucking right along after three kids and 20 years of living in sin, Brad and Angie seem to be just fine without that piece of paper, Kurt and Goldie have been together since the last ice age.

Comments

[Keli]

She is 47!?!?! JEALOUS.

[DianaCLT]

Wow. Honestly, I always thought she looked a bit like a character off the set of Star Trek. But, now knowing she is forty-freakin'-seven changes my perspective completely! My face of 34 has more lines than hers - which has none! And we won't even get into the chin(s). JEALOUS!

[Mrs. Kennedy]

Live in a rainy country where the sun sets at 3 in the afternoon in February, it's a good way to keep your skin pale and smooth.

[sweetney]

okay, i now want to be tilda swinton.

[jamiegp]

I care not what you think, oh public, Tilda kicks serious ass... and her character in Michael Clayton is so fucking great, complex and discussable -- I'm glad the Academy got it right.

If Susan Faludi (sp?) did a sequel to Backlash, I think a discussion of that role would be the sequel to the Fatal Attraction / Glenn Close discussion.

Oh, and do check out Constantine so you can see what happens when otherworldly specimen plays otherworldly role (she plays the (arch)angel Gabriel -- reminding us that gender don't mean shit to her)... and maybe, just maybe, vision of Rachel Weisz will help carry you through any plot problems or lack of Keanu saying "whoah").