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UNDER HER SPELL

JEREMY O. HARRIS: Hi, Tilda. The fact that we’re both in our beds is the most amazing thing … So tell me, you’ve been able to keep working a lot throughout this whole shutdown period, right?

TILDA SWINTON: ”It’s been partly the luck of the draw because of the projects that we’ve been developing. Pedro Almodóvar and I were planning our little film, The Human Voice , for months, and then everything ground to a halt. We looked at each other and said: ‘Actually, this is something we could do. This is one woman and a dog – we could probably do that.” It was very moving for all of us because it was at that point where filmmakers were really wondering how we’re going to do this thing we need to do. And we stepped up to that challenge.”

JOH: Exactly. I think this shouldn’t be a moment of pause, it should be a moment of invention.

TS: “Invention! Necessity is the mother of invention. It’s funny, because I realise how very well-suited those of us who grew up through the underground are to this kind of attrition, because that’s what we know. That feeling of making lemonade whenever you can. And there’s a part of me

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