Swinton to Film Controversial Novel Adaptation

Brian Donnelly - Herald Net

Actress Tilda Swinton is expected to begin filming for a screen version of one of the most controversial novels of recent years, Lionel Shriver's haunting best-seller We Need to Talk about Kevin, in early 2009.

The project is led by Glasgow director Lynne Ramsay, who has been working on a film version of the book, which addresses difficult topics including a high school massacre, for some time.

It was reported yesterday that Swinton would be involved in shooting, which is due to begin as early as the spring.

Ramsay, award-winning creator of Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar, has worked on the project for a number of years.

We Need to Talk About Kevin follows the agonising emotional journey taken by the mother of a boy who commits an appalling high school massacre.

Swinton, 48, largely brought up in Berwickshire, also spoke in an interview about her relationships with painter and playwright John Byrne, the father of her two children, and also Sandro Kopp, a 30- year-old German artist, who is said by Swinton to be misunderstood.

She was quoted as saying:

"There has been this idea given out that we're in this complete debauch in this house.

"Well, that is a fabulous fantasy. It really is very straightforward. You're talking about a couple having children, becoming not a couple any more but remaining the parents of children, and having other coupledoms with other people.

"It's about consecutive relationships, not concurrent relationships. We're not all sleeping together, I'm sorry to tell you. It's so much more boring than that."

Swinton, seen in the big screen adaptation of Alex Garland's novel The Beach opposite Leonardo Di Caprio, and Vanilla Sky, Thumbsucker and Constantine, has also recently featured in Burn After Reading .

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