This course compares how these two actors from different periods created careers in International and domestic films, spanning Mainstream and Independent, Experimental cinema exploring issues like gender, sexuality, and class. We will examine films like Bogardes Cast a Dark Shadow, (Lewis Gilbert 1955) Victim, (Basil Dearden 61), The Servant (Losey 63) and Despair (Fassbinder 76) and Swintons Orlando (Sally Potter 92), The Deep End, (David Siegel and Scott McGehee 2001), Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy 2007) and A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino 2015).