My tandoori tan makeover, by Tilda
WITH her porcelain skin, signature blonde crop and androgynous style, she is usually instantly recognisable.
But add a fake tan, some smoky eye make-up and longer locks, and suddenly Tilda Swinton isn’t such a familiar face after all.
For her latest role, the unconventional actress has been transformed into what she describes as the average woman on the street.
It’s left cinema-goers struggling to recognise her – and it’s hard to blame them given the dramatic effects of layer upon layer of fake tan, bronzer and make-up.
The Oscar-winning star said the makeover was ‘pretty extreme’ but admitted it was ‘fun’ to see herself in the heavy make-up and ‘tandoori tan’ she had seen popularised by other women.
She told culture website The Mary Sue: ‘This woman looks frankly like a lot of women I pass on the street every day – the women who go for that particular tandoori tan and the eye make-up and hair. But for me, that look is pretty extreme.’
Miss Swinton, 54, plays a self- absorbed and dictatorial magazine editor, Dianna, in the romantic comedy Trainwreck, which opened in the US last weekend.
Director Judd Apatow gave her creative control over her character’s look, which she topped off with a highlighted shoulderlength blonde wig.
Miss Swinton – who has previously been transformed into an aged widow in The Grand Budapest Hotel and the white witch in The Chronicles of Narnia – said she felt ‘unrecognisable’ in the role.
She told The Huffington Post: ‘But the truth is there are a lot of women walking around rocking Dianna’s look, and I suppose you maybe didn’t ever expect to see me in it.’
Miss Swinton had to undergo daily hour-long sessions with fake tan to transform her pale skin.
Make-up artist Kyra Panchenko told Entertainment Weekly: ‘She’s [normally] translucent, and we turned her the colour of a coconut shell.’