As a child, Tilda Swinton always felt like an outsider, an observer of others, sometimes even in her own family. One day at the British boarding school she loathed, she met another girl, Joanna Hogg, who shared a similar worldview. (Another classmate was Diana Spencer, the future princess.)
“We were two aliens, if you like. It was that wonderful thing of being isolated, but together in that,” Swinton recalls a half-century later, sitting on a couch in Manhattan, New York, with her lifelong friend, discussing their latest collaboration, “The Eternal Daughter,” which arrives in theaters Friday. Hogg wrote and directed the film; Swinton stars.
“There was a feeling of not being in step at the school, so we took refuge in each other,” Hogg adds, prompting Swinton to note that “nothing has changed,” which sparks a burst of laughter from the two women.
