Tilda Swinton = Conan O’Brien

Conan O’Brien has suggested that Tilda Swinton portray him in a proposed, mostly imaginary potential HBO movie about the Tonight Show debacle... and she’s onboard with the idea. She told Movieline:

I would just be only too happy. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.

Of course, she’s bent genders before, in Orlando and Constantine. But I’d venture to guess that mainstream audiences mostly have no damn idea who Tilda Swinton is at all... and that their minds would be blown by seeing an English woman playing the role of an American semi-icon. And that would be splendid.

This has been your OMG Thought for the Day.

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posted by RyanT (Thu Jan 28 10, 9:29PM)

I'll be the first one in line to buy a ticket...

posted by CB (Thu Jan 28 10, 9:55PM)

I dunno, I bet mainstream audiences would know who Tilda Swinton was if you said she was the White Witch... aka the most amazing part of those otherwise blase movies.

I could see her as a great Orlando -- I might have to watch that some time.

But I never thought of it as "gender bending" in Constatine... I just thought that in this version, "Gabriel" was a woman-angel, and why not?

posted by J.E. (Thu Jan 28 10, 10:32PM)

Conan was class, Jay Leno is an a**

posted by Shadowen (Thu Jan 28 10, 11:37PM)

She's a bit short for the role, but you can fix that in post.

posted by Left_Wing_Fox (Fri Jan 29 10, 7:19PM)

I suddenly have an urge to see a lot more reverse whitewashing in movies now: casting women and people of color in the roles of famous white dudes.

Watanabe Ken as Abraham Lincoln! Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Salk in the epic feel-good story of the Polio vaccine! Halle Berry discovers America as Columbus!

Even if it's just a YouTube video: let's get folks on this, it'll be awesome!

posted by LaSargenta (Fri Jan 29 10, 7:38PM)

I want Oliver Stone to remake W with Don Cheadle.

posted by Laurie Mann (Fri Jan 29 10, 7:58PM)

Go Tilda!

posted by Vardulon (Sun Jan 31 10, 7:51PM)

Maybe I'm still nostalgic for 'Studio 6H', but I'm hoping they'll get Liev Schreiber in that ridiculous wig.

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