Tilda Swinton takes on another transformation in hit comedy Trainwreck as a made-up magazine editor but the Oscar-winning actor has classed the makeover as “pretty extreme”.
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Amy Schumer and Tilda Swinton in a scene from the movie Trainwreck.
In a career full of transformative performances, this may be one of Swintons most drastic physical reformations. This included an hour a day spent covering the 54-year-old actress with bronzer and self-tanning cream to ideal a certain leathery, too-much-time-in-a-tanning-bed exterior look.
Shes over the top, over-tanned, and does everything in the biggest way. Covering her hair, which she usually wears short and nearly white despite being a natural redhead, with shoulder-length wig the color of which Panchenko describes as “filthy blonde”.
Pachenko then turned her attention to Swinton’s eye makeup, swapping her trademark barely-there look for dark and dramatic smokey eyes.
While she doesn’t look like an ice queen anymore, her character is billed as being just as formidable. “She said, ‘If I’m going to put makeup on, I’m going to put on the most eyeliner I can, ‘” Panchenko says.
Swinton, who is unrecognisable in the role, tells The Hollywood Reporter she looked to former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and Beckham to help her nail her character’s look, style and personality. “I don’t know whether one would really want to be recognisable in this role”.
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Meanwhile, The Guardian reported that the Judd Apatow-helmed “Trainwreck”, which opened in the US over the weekend, grossed $30.2 million from its $35 million budget.
