Tilda Swinton compares herself to It’s A Sin’s Jill after attending 43 ‘Aids-related’ funerals in one year

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Tilda Swinton has compared to herself to Jill from It’s A Sin as she revealed that she attended 43 “Aids-related” funerals in 1994. “The one person who really understood what I was going through was my grandmother, who lived through two world wars, and she said, ‘This is your generation’s war.’” Swinton then compared herself to the character of Jill in Davies’s drama. Lots of people couldn’t go home so they stayed with us and we looked after everyone as best we could.” The character of Jill in It’s A Sin was based on Davies’s own friend Jill Nalder, who said that she went on “endless hospital visits” during the period. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free “You’re taking a place, in a way, of a family member because you become that family together and you just be there in a loving way,” Nalder said.