All photos by David Armstrong
Our April issue is just part of why we were all pretty pleased to see Tilda Swinton win a zillion awards last month. Picking a cover subject is always a tricky gamble -- are you ahead of the curve in hyping a major talent or falling for the same inflated dish pitched to every editor in town? -- but it's made significantly simpler when you flat-out adore and respect the star in question.
We were betting on Swinton because she's been inspiring us for years:
Her great mentor, the gay English director Derek Jarman, with whom she first worked, turned her into a kind of muse for his abstract meditations on decline and fall, but she has proved much more elastic than those early films suggested, shape-shifting with unflappable grace from the gender-switching hero(ine) of Orlando to a series of sperm-seeking computer clones in Teknolust to a harassed soccer mom out to save her gay son in The Deep End. She is a big-screen chameleon who likes to describe herself with a line from La Dolce Vita: "Too serious to be a dilettante, and too much of a dabbler to be a professional."
Head over to Out.com to read Swinton's refreshingly blunt interview with Out Editor In Chief Aaron Hicklin, and check back here at Popnography this week for more outtakes.
A few more gorgeous photos after the jump...
How many straight people have been on the cover this year?
Posted by: Kevin | March 13, 2008 at 02:09 PM