Her makeover for the film Suspiria was pretty convincing, but there are lessons to be learned from her transformation
The chameleon actor has done it again. It turns out Tilda Swinton does play the elderly male character Dr Josef Klemperer in the remake of supernatural thriller Suspiria after all. This despite the fact that the film-makers had tried to throw everyone off the scent with an IMDb biography entry for a fake actor called Lutz Ebersdorf. In hindsight, this was a bit lame as Ebersdorf had never been cast in anything else, but just happened to land third lead in a major movie. Then there was a supplementary denial by the director, who called the suspicions that Ebersdorf was Swinton “fake news”. As everybody knows, whenever anybody says “fake news”, it is in fact true.
For some reason, despite the fact that I’m not especially observant, I didn’t even need to apply this metric. I saw the picture of Swinton’s face alongside the snaps of the character and I knew instinctively, rationally and with every pore of my being that this was indeed Tilda Swinton.
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