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Friday 17 May 2019
Tilda Swinton relishes her

samurai turn in ‘Dead Don’t Die’

By JAKE COYLE which is competing in to the actors themselves —
AP Film Writer Cannes for the Palme d’Or, among them Bill Murray,
CANNES, France (AP) — isn’t a Troma film by any Adam Driver and Chloe
Tilda Swinton feels most stretch. But it shares some Sevigny. Swinton’s charac-
at home at the Berlin Film genre DNA. Jarmusch’s ter is named Zelda Winston,
Festival, but she’s steadily film is about a small town a riff on Jarmusch’s nick-
become a regular at the named Centerville where name for Swinton: “Swilda
Cannes Film Festival. “polar fracking” alters the Hinson.”
“I’m racking them up,” she Earth’s rotation and the “Everybody’s in their own
says cheerfully the day af- undead begin to walk the clothes,” she says.
Actress Tilda Swinton poses for photographers at the photo call
for the film ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ at the 72nd international film ter the premiere of Jim streets. Swinton, who mem- As purposefully outland-
festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Jarmusch’s zombie movie orably starred as a thor- ish as much of the movie
Associated Press “The Dead Don’t Die.” oughly well-read vampire is, its premise — where the
“I like this summer-holiday in Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers planet is horribly damaged
feel. These are wonder- Left Alive,” plays the town’s and a strange new-normal
ful family reunions,” Swin- mortician. takes hold — doesn’t sound
ton said in an interview at “At some point at the end far-fetched to Swinton.
Cannes’ Carlton Hotel. “If of our adventure with ‘Only “It could easily be a docu-
I’m with Jim Jarmusch, I’m Lovers Left Alive,’ Jim said, mentary, if we’re not care-
with the Jim team. If I’m ‘Let’s do a zombie movie ful. We’re getting used to
with Bong Joon-ho, I’m with next,’” she recalls. “He really bad things happen-
the Bong team. If I’m with said, ‘What do you want ing that we couldn’t imag-
Wes Anderson, I’m with the to be?’ I said, pretty much ine,” she says. “We’ve just
Wes team. You’re having a off the cuff, ‘I want to be all got to retain perspec-
summer holiday with your the funeral director who’s tive. It’s so easy to become
friends on the beach. It’s put out because the dead befuddled. And it’s so easy
sort of silly. I like the silliness don’t die.’ That was it. He to notice that some forces
of it.” laughed and went away. are actively befuddling us.”
But Swinton is nostalgic for And then all the rest, he Swinton recently narrated
one aspect of the festival did.” Mark Cousin’s “Women
that has waned in recent For even Swinton, the char- Make Film: A New Road
years: “the Troma-ness of acter is an eccentric one. Movie Through Cinema,”
Cannes,” she says, allud- She speaks with a pro- a four-hour documentary
ing to the once ubiquitous nounced version of her (for which 12 more hours
Troma Entertainment, the own Scottish accent and is are planned) that sheds
aggressively promotional a master swordsman. Swin- light on many of the under-
indie factory of low-budget ton, finally, is zombie-killing appreciated female film-
exploitation movies. Scottish samurai warrior. makers from throughout
“You don’t get assaulted “I’ve very proud of that cinema history. Speaking
by people dressed up like body count,” she says, smil- to reporters Wednesday,
life-sized penises like you ing. “I love it.” Swinton referenced that
used to,” says Swinton. There are winking refer- past as an important per-
“That used to be great.” ences throughout the often spective in today’s gender
“The Dead Don’t Die,” meta “The Dead Don’t Die” equality struggles.q
Julianne Moore on gender parity:

‘I believe in quotas’

By The Associated Press some measures to change
CANNES, France (AP) — our culture.”
Julianne Moore said “We will have to make ma-
Wednesday that larger ef- jor changes to reach pari-
forts are needed in order ty. That’s just a fact. So, I do
for the movie industry to believe in quotas. I really
reach gender parity, and do,” added Moore.
that means implementing “I believe in trying to level
quotas. the playing field for every-
“We will not have gender body regardless of their
parity unless everybody gender or their culture
is cooperating. Women or ethnicity. You have to
are not a special interest open doors.”
group. We’re 52 percent While gender quotas Julianne Moore poses for
of the global population,” haven’t been much dis- photographers upon arrival
Moore said during an event cussed in Hollywood, at the premiere of the film
at the Cannes Film Festival. they’re more common in ‘Les Miserables’ at the 72nd
“In order to restore the bal- Europe where filmmaking international film festival,
ance, I do think that there is often partly supported by Cannes, southern France,
Wednesday, May 15, 2019.
will be, that we will need public money. q Associated Press