92年上映的奥兰多应该是仙姑最著名的角色了,伍尔夫的小说改编的,美丽佳人奥兰多据说是伍尔夫写给她的情人薇塔的情书。
本片由英国女导演Sally Potter执导,从87年开始筹拍,她执意要蒂尔达来饰演这个角色,蒂尔达对此片也很有兴趣,她讲过这个角色其实跟她本人有点像的,刻板的性别认知曾困扰过蒂尔达,她不相信身份认同,从小她就接受了自己是流动的。奥兰多这个角色从16世纪贵族少年活到19世纪,四百年的时间,她从男变女,她很自然的接受了这个转变
“We met and I knew precisely that she was the person I wanted to play Orlando,” says Potter. “[She had a] radiant intelligence at the core, and a certain kind of androgyny – it was as if she wasn’t tied in to either a gender or a time. She had openness and humour, but above all this luminosity of presence.”
Potter needed an actor who could carry the character through 400 years of history, changing sex halfway through, and she knew she had found that in Swinton, someone who could radiate “the inner life of any human being, male or female”.AdvertisementSwinton is, says Potter, “collaborative by instinct”. Orlando was several years in development, “but she was extremely loyal and committed to the idea through that period”.Endless drafts of the script would be sent to Swinton, says Potter. “She has a very good critical intelligence and she was a good reader, commentator and giver of energy.”








