Tilda Swinton as an 80-year-old man in ‘Suspiria’ is ridiculously convincing

Does the name Lutz Ebersdorf ring a bell?

That's the name of the 80-year-old actor playing Dr Josef Klemperer in the upcoming horror movie Suspiria.

Never heard of him? Yeah, us neither. That's because Mr. Ebersdorf does not exist. The elderly break through star was actually actor Tilda Swinton in prosthetics all along.

Swinton just revealed the elaborate hoax that allowed her to star in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming horror drama under two different names. Swinton also plays a leading role of a dance troupe director in the movie.

During filming it was rumoured that Swinton was going to be playing an old man, but Guadagnino insisted that it was "fake news."

But now, the jig is up. Swinton revealed to The New York Times that Dr Josef Klemperer is in fact played by her in character as Lutz Ebersdorf.

But you wouldn't know from looking at Lutz Ebersdorf that he is actually a 57-year-old-woman in disguise. The prosthetic work is honestly very impressive.

In the Suspiria trailer, you can see the impressive makeup and prosthetics work that turned Swinton into Ebersdorf.

Lets have a closer look at that impressive transformation.

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Swinton told The New York Times that she decided to play Lutz Ebersdorf playing Josef Klemperer "for the sheer sake of fun above all."

Director Luca Guadagnino added that “Being a film about the fantastic, it was important that we did not play by the book.”

This really makes you wonder if everyone you ever met was really just Tilda Swinton in disguise.