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Tilda Swintonis speaking out about what her queer identity means to her.
In the new issue ofBritish Vogue,theDoctor Strangestar, 60, opened up about identifying as queer, and how her career in Hollywood helped her find her “queer circus.”
“I’m very clear that queer is actually, for me anyway, to do with sensibility,” Swinton said. “I always felt I was queer – I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it. And having found it, it’s my world.”
“Now I have a family with Wes Anderson, I have a family with Bong Joon-ho, I have a family with Jim Jarmusch, I have a family with Luca Guadagnino, with Lynne Ramsay, with Joanna Hogg,” she added, listing some of the acclaimed directors she’s worked with over the course of her career.
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Swinton, who has been linked to German artist Sandro Kopp since 2004, also shares two children — twins Honor Swinton Byrne and Xavier Swinton Byrne, 23 — with ex John Byrne.
While speaking withBritish Vogue,the Academy Award winner also revealed that she never imagined she would have a career in the spotlight.
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“Seriously. And I have been really blessed to be able to achieve them,” she added. “Everything else is a bonus. Everything else is just icing and candles and flowers alongside.”
Swinton is currently filmingThree Thousand Years of Longing.She stars alongside Idris Elba and David Collins in the George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)-directed fantasy romance.
source: people.com
