Tilda Swinton: I Tried to Kill My Youngest Brother as a Child
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Was Tilda Swinton a bad seed?
The Oscar-winning actress, 50, reveals a deep, very dark childhood secret: She nearly murdered her youngest brother as a child.
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The We Need to About Kevin star told the shocking story to England's The Telegraph magazine.
Recalling the brutal 1993 murder of 2-year-old British boy James Bulger, Swinton said: "Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother."
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Explained the British star: "He was newly born and I was disappointed, because he was the third boy. That was enough as far as I was concerned."
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But, thankfully, the Michael Clayton actress had a change of heart when visiting her baby brother's nursery. "I went into his room to kill him, saw some ribbons from a bonnet going into his mouth, and began to pull them out," Swinton recalled. "And I was discovered saving his life. So I had this strange reputation - my brother's savior - and no one knew I wanted to kill him. It took the Bulger case for me to remember that I'd seriously wanted to."
Partners since 2004, Swinton and Scottish painter John Byrne are parents to 13-year-old twins, son Xavier and daughter Honor.
The topic of child evil has been on Swinton's mind as she promotes new flick We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which she plays the mother of a boy who commits mass murder.
"It's everybody's nightmare that, when they're pregnant, they're going to give birth to the devil," she has said. "That when they bring up children, especially a boy, they're going to give birth to this violence."
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14She should have tried a pillow instead.
Wow!!! This goes beyond the sibling rivalry thing. She is seriously twisted. I hope she isn't a Mother. That poor child is in danger if she is. No one normal looks at their child like he or she is the devil. She needs a thorazine drip and some psychosis meds, Especially since she thinks its ok to have almost killed her Brother. smh. Creepy is right :-(
Um, that wasn't my personal nightmare when I was pregnant. She's kind of creepy...I'm a little disturbed now...
Everybody's nightmare? No, Tilda. Only religious nutjobs think there's a chance they could birth the devil.
She needs psychiatric supervision. Nut job.
Oh please...she was a child jealous and angry that she got another baby brother, my brother tried to kill me too but then again my brother is weird and always thinks he is right so you might be right that is creepy
now it all makes sense from this cold person which I've never liked, she really thinks she's always right, well she just proved she's a killer at heart and that's dead wrong...
I never liked this woman...................she was always so weird........this just made it worst. She should be embarrassed to even utter these words out of her mouth now that she is all grown up and a mother at that!
She even looks creepy in the photo..
How creepy...
Yeah, I agree with Kyrie...this is seriously messed.
This is kind of sick and twisted...not sure I would advertise this kind of mind set...
ahh I personally did not have that nightmare but whatever....
nothing to say.