'That was all me!' Tilda Swinton tells BAZ BAMIGBOYE how she mastered swordplay for her new zombie movie
The greatest joy of Jim Jarmusch's to-die-for zombie movie The Dead Don't Die comes when Tilda Swinton, playing a displaced Scottish undertaker (or so we're led to believe!).
She lives in a small U.S. town overrun by the undead, deftly dispatches them using a samurai sword with all the dexterity that Michelle Yeoh displayed in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
'That was all me,' Ms Swinton said proudly, as she arrived at the Focus Features rooftop after-after party for the film. 'I did my own sword play.'
Tilda Swinton at the photocall for 'The Dead Don't Die' on the opening day of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2019
The Scots accent was all hers, too.
Swinton plays Betsey Trotwood In Armando Iannucci's film The Personal History Of David Copperfield.
Having seen her swashbuckling in the Jarmusch film, I can't wait to see how Miss Trotwood wields a stick to deal with the pesky donkeys outside her property in the Dickens adaptation.
Tilda Swinton, playing a displaced Scottish undertaker with enchanting sword skills
Jim Jarmusch, Tilda Swinton and Selena Gomez attend the press conference for 'The Dead Don't Die'
Swinton's character lives in a small U.S. town overrun by the undead, deftly dispatches them using a samurai sword