A public service announcement. Stop copying and pasting blindly from Yahoo that has their facts wrong even if they do have the official “Synecdoche, New York,” trailer. Tilda Swinton is not in Charlie Kaufman’s new mind-fark. We know this cause we’ve seen it. Frankly, we wish she was in it. Hope Davis’ role as a therapist in the movie is rather miscast and Swinton woulda been perfect for the part, but she makes no appearance.
Why the mis-reportage? (she’s still incorrectly listed in the credits of the film at Variety) Swinton was cast in the film at one point (or was in talks), but dropped due to unknown circumstances and what we can probably assume was scheduling problems (or those “talks” never came to fruition). Like we said, it’s a bit of a shame. When we read the script, we totally envisioned her as Philip Seymour Hoffman’s self-absorbed therapist. Alas, a missed opportunity.
