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'Sir Sean and I could go down Princes Street on a tartan float'

Tilda Swinton couldn�t be happier with her new Film Festival role. As she tells Arts Correspondent Phil Miller , it�s an excuse to stay out of the theatre.

When the young Katherine Mathilda Swinton was growing up in the Borders, Edinburgh meant two things, both of them ordeals that many people would rather avoid: visits to the dentist, and watching Ronnie Corbett in pantomime at Christmas.