Why Tilda Swinton is Drawn to Certain Characters | Interview

Tilda Swinton, star of Three Thousand Years of Longing, sits down with io9 to discuss why she&drawn to certain characters. George Miller’s newest film, also starring Idris Elba, attempts to do the impossible. Skipping across three millennia, Miller’s romantic fantasy is a chamber play, an homage to the fable of Scheherazade, and a meditation on curiosity and storytelling. It’s a romance about truth and power, and what stories get to be powerful. It is, as stories about Djinn and love tend to be, a lot more metaphorical than it has space to explore. We come from the future. Follow us.