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Tilda Swinton (as Martha)

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601 total appearances

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Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

Turned to me, said, wouldn't that be wonderful? That was a Martha moment, you know. If she'd been able to take a pill then, she would have. She was ready. She wanted to go. And she only had another week to go, and it was relatively graceful. She just sort of fell asleep and slept for several days. And then at the very last minute...

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

Turned to me, said, wouldn't that be wonderful? That was a Martha moment, you know. If she'd been able to take a pill then, she would have. She was ready. She wanted to go. And she only had another week to go, and it was relatively graceful. She just sort of fell asleep and slept for several days. And then at the very last minute...

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Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

opened her eyes and looked at me and took a last breath and went. As very often happens, there's a sort of slight rallying, which is a beautiful thing to witness.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

opened her eyes and looked at me and took a last breath and went. As very often happens, there's a sort of slight rallying, which is a beautiful thing to witness.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

opened her eyes and looked at me and took a last breath and went. As very often happens, there's a sort of slight rallying, which is a beautiful thing to witness.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

For her and for you. Truly, truly. I'm very grateful for both of them, that they had really graceful departures.

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Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

For her and for you. Truly, truly. I'm very grateful for both of them, that they had really graceful departures.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

For her and for you. Truly, truly. I'm very grateful for both of them, that they had really graceful departures.

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Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

It's so funny, Terry, because the more and more I live, the more I think that I'm going right down the middle of the family tendency, actually. When I think of comradeship, when I think of, you know, the project, when I think of, you know, the kind of trench warfare of independent filmmaking, when I think of walkie-talkies, when I think of, you know... kind of packed lunches in dark fields.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

It's so funny, Terry, because the more and more I live, the more I think that I'm going right down the middle of the family tendency, actually. When I think of comradeship, when I think of, you know, the project, when I think of, you know, the kind of trench warfare of independent filmmaking, when I think of walkie-talkies, when I think of, you know... kind of packed lunches in dark fields.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

It's so funny, Terry, because the more and more I live, the more I think that I'm going right down the middle of the family tendency, actually. When I think of comradeship, when I think of, you know, the project, when I think of, you know, the kind of trench warfare of independent filmmaking, when I think of walkie-talkies, when I think of, you know... kind of packed lunches in dark fields.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

I have a brother who was a soldier for many years and we've always compared notes and I think we live very similar lives, in fact, and less perilous to make films, but for sure. But you're right, there is a chain of command that I know that that soldiers live and die by, that we don't necessarily, certainly not maybe in studio filmmaking more. Maybe that's more the hard army.

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Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

I have a brother who was a soldier for many years and we've always compared notes and I think we live very similar lives, in fact, and less perilous to make films, but for sure. But you're right, there is a chain of command that I know that that soldiers live and die by, that we don't necessarily, certainly not maybe in studio filmmaking more. Maybe that's more the hard army.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

I have a brother who was a soldier for many years and we've always compared notes and I think we live very similar lives, in fact, and less perilous to make films, but for sure. But you're right, there is a chain of command that I know that that soldiers live and die by, that we don't necessarily, certainly not maybe in studio filmmaking more. Maybe that's more the hard army.

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

But, yeah, in the world of filmmaking that I sprung out of, it's a collective, and that's not necessarily what an army is. Yeah, I think in that sense, yes, I did...

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Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

But, yeah, in the world of filmmaking that I sprung out of, it's a collective, and that's not necessarily what an army is. Yeah, I think in that sense, yes, I did...

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

But, yeah, in the world of filmmaking that I sprung out of, it's a collective, and that's not necessarily what an army is. Yeah, I think in that sense, yes, I did...

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

branch out from the family trade but having said that you know there is this very strange epiphany in my recent years that I was always told by my parents that I was a bit of a strange thing and that there were no artists in our family but I've recently discovered since they died I may say that our family tree is littered with artists and yeah I'm not in fact an apple falling that far from the tree at all

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

branch out from the family trade but having said that you know there is this very strange epiphany in my recent years that I was always told by my parents that I was a bit of a strange thing and that there were no artists in our family but I've recently discovered since they died I may say that our family tree is littered with artists and yeah I'm not in fact an apple falling that far from the tree at all

Fresh Air
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death

branch out from the family trade but having said that you know there is this very strange epiphany in my recent years that I was always told by my parents that I was a bit of a strange thing and that there were no artists in our family but I've recently discovered since they died I may say that our family tree is littered with artists and yeah I'm not in fact an apple falling that far from the tree at all