how good you are or how much compelling research you do, in the end you're beginning an ending with yourself. That's scary, but I don't think that inextricably ties you to characters, I find that coming to this realisation more and more I see the vast contrast between me and the characters I play, because everything is quintessentially borne of this similarity. DD: Was it inspirational to play alongside Tilda Swinton then? Ezra Miller: Yeah, amazingly. I have a feeling that in subliminal way that I'm not fully aware of yet, what I've learnt from Tilda will inform everything I do from here on out. She represents almost a new craft outside of acting, a craft within the art form of empathy. What we see her do time and time again is bring the possibility of a human understanding to a situation or a story or a character that before might have seemed unrecognisable or indecipherable or just completely unrelatable because of, maybe, the characters actions or the characters traits. She has this immense energetic capacity to bring the reality of the human experience into those shells. And that grants us, as audience members, an opportunity to empathise further. That is what this art form has the potential to do at its best, at its optimal.