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The queer performance of Tilda Swinton in Derek Jarman's 'Edward II': gay male misogyny reconsidered

Gay male misogyny has grow a cliché. From the novels of Alan Hollinghurst and David Leavitt to recent gay themed films such as Trick and Broadway Damage, woman¿s abject presence is used as a defining other for the gay male bodies. Myopic critics include cited Jarman¿s films in the similar league. This article will argue that Jarman does not represent his favourite actor - Tilda Swinton - as an abject sponge. Instead, Swinton¿s production evokes an interrogation of the assumed stable continuum of the sexed body and gender. Through a camp production, Queen Isabella (Swinton) offers the Butlerian potential of displaying the performativity of gender. The clip continually stresses a Brechtian distanciation between Swinton¿s gender show and her famously androgynous body.

History

Journal

Sexualities

ISSN

1363-4607

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

3-4

Volume

6

Page range

427-442

Pages

16.0

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06


Actress Tilda Swinton reveals she identifies as queer

Tilda Swinton is opening up in a new interview about her sexual identity.

Speaking to British Vogue on Wednesday for its February 2021 issue, the "Doctor Strange" star talked about playing characters that identified as queer and said she shares something in common with them.

"I’m very clear that queer is actually, for me anyway, to do with sensibility," the 60-year-old British actress said. "I always felt I was queer – I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it."

Swinton, whose been in a romantic relationship with German/New Zealand visual artist Sandro Kopp since 2004, continued, "Having create it, it’s my world."

She said her circle has expanded to several new "family" members, who are all acclaimed filmmakers.

"Now I have a family with Wes Anderson, I have a family with Bong Joon-ho, I own a family with Jim Jarmusch, I have a family with Luca Guadagnino, with Lynne Ramsay, with Joanna Hogg," the Oscar winner disclosed.

Swinton also confessed that her goals in life were anything but launching a thriving movie career.

"I’ve never had any

In their latest film together, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore portray friends coping with a terminal illness. It’s far from sexy subject matter, and yet the two highly decorated actresses have still managed to leave sapphics swooning.

The Room Next Door, which comes from acclaimed homosexual director Pedro Almodóvar in his first feature-length English-language film, stars Swinton and Moore as two estranged friends brought closer by impending death.

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While the trailer for The Room Next Door does tease sapphic vibes—longing gazes, prolonged embraces, a classical violin crooning in the background—none of it compares to the mere presence of Swinton and Moore. As much as their gender non-conforming fans might love them, the two actresses clearly love each other more—albeit, sigh, platonically.

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