She also addressed comments she made while picking up the prize on Thursday, where she said governments are “greed addicted” and called out “the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder” which she called “unacceptable to human society”.
The British actress, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for legal thriller Michael Clayton, was presented with the lifetime achievement prize at the Berlin International Film Festival on Thursday for a long career demonstrating “breathtaking” range.
Swinton, who has been in Marvel movie Doctor Strange, supernatural movie Constantine with Keanu Reeves and drama The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio, said people see it as “peculiar” to hang out with each other on set.
She said she is “a great admirer of and have a great deal of respect for BDS”, but added it was “more important” for her to come to the festival and not boycott it – which the organisation called for.
Swinton clarified she was referring to “all the wars”, not just the conflict in Gaza, and was also asked about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) which calls for a cultural boycott of Israel.
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