Tilda Swinton has a shocking confession to make.
In the Telegraph, the 50-year-old Oscar-winning actress unveiled a deep dirty secret: as a child she almost tried to murder her baby brother.
The We Need to Talk About Kevin star has been thinking a lot about bad seeds. It was only after the brutal murder of 2-year-old British boy James Bulger, that Swinton uncovered her own latent memories of fratricide
"Having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother," said Swinton. "He was newly born and I was disappointed, because he was the third boy. That was enough as far as I was concerned."
Apparently when young Tilda entered the baby's room she had a change of heart. In fact, when she saw that her brother's bonnet ribbons were in his mouth, she alerted her parents. Her actions, ironically, were pegged as heroic.
"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."
Perhaps this unsettling revelation has given her added insight into her latest role as the mother of a boy mass murderer in We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on the controversial best-selling novel by Lionel Shriver.
Swinton has 13-year-old twins of her own, son Xavier and daughter Honor.
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