Tilda Swinton On Playing Dual Roles In Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Eternal Daughter’ – Venice
deadline.comTilda Swinton is back on the Lido, this time with director Joanna Hogg’s Venice competition title The Eternal Daughter.The ghost story charts the tale of a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother (both played by Swinton) who must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their former family home, a once-grand manor that has become a nearly vacant hotel.Shot in secret in Wales during lockdown, the project re-teams long-time friends Swinton and Hogg after the recent Souvenir films.Swinton, sporting a shock of hair dyed a bright yellow — “It’s my honor to wear half of the Ukrainian flag,” she commented — said playing dual roles wasn’t the plan from the start.
Rather, it was borne out of conversations that followed The Souvenir movies in which she played mother to her own real-life daughter.
The mother and daughter characters in Eternal Daughter are likewise named Rosalind and Julie.Said Swinton, “During The Souvenir, I noticed how different the relationship is of mothers of my age and daughters of my age.
We became very interested in that and talked about Rosalind older and Julie older. We always though I would play Julie, and talked about an older performer playing the mother — somehow this very strange impulse took over.
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