Tilda Swinton isn’t ashamed to say she was an ugly teenager. Best known for her role as the White Witch from ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, the 49-year-old actress says her plain appearance never bothered her.
She tells, “When I was nine or 10, I wasn’t pretty any more, which is a big advantage. It must be a nightmare to be a beautiful teenager. I got this strange kind of androgyny. I was everything girls don’t want to be – incredibly tall, incredibly thin and unimpressive.” A part of Tilda’s childhood she didn’t agree with was boarding school. She says, “I had no access to pop culture. Being kept away from pop music as a teenager is to be kept away from your generation and even to be kept away in some way from sex.”
She adds, “As a teenager, it is very important to be linked with the sexual impulses of popular music. Somehow I managed to get through this school and got a different kind of identity.”