by Jillian Leigh, Ampersandology
For anyone who caught Conan O'Brien's last show this past Friday, you'll obviously know that the highlight was clearly the moment when Conan proposed that HBO make a movie about the whole debacle, and that he be played by Tilda Swinton.
Now here is a true fact: I dig Tilda Swinton. She is a kooky bird! She makes bold choices in her career and admittedly odd ones in her personal life. But she rocks it! And Tilda, deciding that it wasn't enough to just have me admire her, has now set about earning my unfailing devotion by being ultra-boss. From Movieline:
For anyone who caught Conan O'Brien's last show this past Friday, you'll obviously know that the highlight was clearly the moment when Conan proposed that HBO make a movie about the whole debacle, and that he be played by Tilda Swinton.
Now here is a true fact: I dig Tilda Swinton. She is a kooky bird! She makes bold choices in her career and admittedly odd ones in her personal life. But she rocks it! And Tilda, deciding that it wasn't enough to just have me admire her, has now set about earning my unfailing devotion by being ultra-boss. From Movieline:
“I’ve heard about Conan!...I’m so thrilled.”
So would she be willing to take on the challenge of playing him? After all, Swinton has bent genders onscreen before, as anyone who’s seen her 1992 film Orlando would know.
“I would just be only too happy,” she beamed. “Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.”
Then, pondering the offer, she decided to return the favor and solicit from O’Brien. “What I really would love to do is get him to do some of the things I get to do. It would be nice if he were here at Sundance maybe, wearing this coat, talking about I Am Love.”
It might seem like a tall order for O’Brien, but he certainly has several months of unemployment to pull off such a switch. “And why not?” Swinton said. “Every girl should have a doppleganger.”
She's right, you know. Every girl should have a doppleganger, I firmly believe that. Mine is Jason Schwartzman.
Anyone who reads this blog who knows me personally just went, "Ooooooh, yeah, he totally is her doppleganger." You know why? Because Jay-Schwartz and I rock the same sensibility; it's hard to explain, but it's there. In truth, he's not my doppleganger in the sense that we look anything alike. But trust me: our souls are the same flavour--too cool for school-berry.
I feel like if we met on the street, we'd have all the same things in common and then suddenly realizing that we are each other's Platonic ideal....then, in my head, we start singing that most excellent song from The Parent Trap while the world slowly eats itself whole from some metafictional kind of mindblown-ness.
Let me tell you, THAT is a fun party game: if you were an opposite sex celebrity, who would you be? Think about it. Get back to me.
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