Oscar winner Tilda Swinton doesn’t understand actors calling themselves storytellers
Oscar winning Narnia villain Tilda Swinton famed for films including Constantine, Young Adam and Adaptation. has revealed that she's never considered herself an actor.
Swinton who was last seen in We Need to Talk About Kevin tells The New York Times "I've been making it up as I go along. In fact I never set out to be an actor. Still am not, really, I slid into performing at the point at which I stopped writing.
I slid sideways into the theatre, basically because of the company I was keeping and a feeling of experimenting with friends who were really into theatre. I was totally undriven."
Swinton will next be seen in Moonrise Kingdom from filmmaker Wes Anderson with action hero Bruce Willis also reveals she's never understood why some actors consider themselves to be 'storytellers' adding "I'm constantly reading about actors who call themselves storytellers. I'm more of a micro-dotter. I like to isolate the spirit of a moment, in particular the moment when the 'me' that I was is forced to change."