Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba describe ’Three Thousand Years of Longing’ love scene

“Three Thousand Years of Longing“ stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba describe the unusual love scene in George Miller’s newest film. “It was an image that George had in his mind from the very early conversations I had with him,“ Swinton recalls. “It was almost like building a sculpture: he had that image in his mind for years, and planned special effects around it well in advance. The idea of having the focus of a lovemaking scene as one still image, I thought, was really fascinating. George operates in many ways as a sculptor, and that was a really remarkable moment.“ “It was incredibly sensitive, beautiful,“ Elba agrees. “We shot a lot of this story in a chronological way ... so that [scene] happened at a junction in our filming process where we were all in love with where we were ... And as Tilda said, George had sculpted this for a long time.“ More from the actors’ conversation with Yahoo Entertainment’s Ethan Alter here: