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Pale, androgynous and distinctive, there is no mistaking Tilda Swinton. With platinum cropped hair that accentuates her interesting features, she has an elfin and eccentric presence.
Her appearance is as deliberate and personal as an art installation: it’s a trademark.
So when pictures emerged this week of the Oscar-winning actress with a deep orange Towie tan, sooty vamp eyes and long streaked hair, jaws dropped at the nature of the transformation.
Some people (well, a couple of blokes) said she looks far more attractive this way; others thought it a hideous travesty, wasting all of Swinton’s quirky charisma.


Even she called the makeover — for a role in a new film — ‘pretty extreme’. And she is known to enjoy complete physical transformations for screen appearances: a vampire in Only Lovers Left Alive; a wrinkled widow, all age spots and saggy neck, in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
She was also the omnisexual hero-heroine Orlando in 1992 and may be switching gender again, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, in Marvel’s forthcoming fantasy Dr Strange.
But it is remarkable that it is this look — adopted to play a tough magazine editor for a new film, Trainwreck — that’s caused such a commotion. Because ‘extreme’ as it is, it is not strange or unusual, but quite the opposite. What’s shocking is Tilda has become ‘everywoman’.
Or at least, one sort of everywoman and an unnervingly familiar one. This is a figure we see everywhere every day, in the shops, in the office, in the street. And what Tilda makes you realise is how strange and artificial this woman looks.
The film’s make-up artist Kyra Panchenko has revealed the effort needed to create this effect. The wig is streaked — ‘over-ombréd, filthy blonde’. It takes an hour a day to put self-tan cream and ‘layers and layers of bronzers’ on Swinton’s face and swan-like neck. ‘She’s normally translucent, and we turned her the colour of a coconut shell.’ As for the eyes, they are rimmed in enough smoky eyeliner to paint a ship’s funnel.


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Omfg, she looks so different... possibly the most drastic change I've ever seen.