Swinton the samurai Scot

THE greatest joy of Jim Jarmusch’s to-die-for zombie movie The Dead Don’t Die comes when Tilda Swinton, playing a displaced Scottish undertaker (or so we’re led to believe!) in a small U.S. town overrun by the undead, deftly dispatches them using a samurai sword with all the dexterity that Michelle Yeoh displayed in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. ‘That was all me,’ Ms Swinton said proudly, as she arrived at the Focus Features rooftop after-after party for the film. ‘I did my own sword play.’ The Scots accent was all hers, too. Swinton plays Betsey Trotwood In Armando Iannucci’s film The Personal History Of David Copperfield. Having seen her swashbuckling in the Jarmusch film, I can’t wait to see how Miss Trotwood wields a stick to deal with the pesky donkeys outside her property in the Dickens adaptation.