The actress worked with the legendary musician on the music video for his 2013 single ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’ and she’s opened up about a candid conversation they had in which Bowie gave his thoughts on life after death – and insisted he simply didn’t believe in it, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, Tilda explained: “He was very ill at the time [of making the music video], which I knew about – although I didn’t know quite how ill. And he started to talk about an afterlife and he said, categorically, that he didn’t think there was one.”
Tilda revealed she formed a solid friendship with the ‘Heroes’ star and they often shared jokes together. She recalled: “I remember that while making ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’, a music video directed by Floria Sigismondi, I’d found a silly, anatomically deformed carrot in my salad at lunch – we talked about that, it kept us going for days…” She added: “He was always sending me images – sometimes silly, sometimes not. I used to be amazed at how aware he was of what we were all doing: he was so switched on.” Swinton previously admitted she’d been a fan of Bowie since she was a teenager and thought of him as a “cousin” because of their similar looks.
She told the Daily Beast: “My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of ‘Aladdin Sane’ when I didn’t have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image – not the sound – that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin”.
She added: “He just looked like me, and looked like someone from the same planet as I did, and that was a great comfort to me at the time when I was 13 and 14 looking like that, that someone not only looked like that, but felt proud enough to stick themselves on the front of an album with a zig-zag across their face and a dewy collarbone. He’s always felt like a cousin.”
She added of Bowie: “He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.”
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