The film follows a woman who is dead set against making her magical desires come true.
The otherworldly Djinn that viewers get to see is a character that actor Idris Elba spent years perfecting.
“I know nothing about djinns or genies,” he said during the press conference.
“That was also quite attractive to me.”
It was controversial in a sense."
That was in part because there’s a big difference between genies and djinns.
“As an actor, it was a gift a complete gift,” he said.
Her scholarly character has chosen a rational worldview and is always thinking about situations from an analytical standpoint.
“There are all sorts of ways of that being a slightly scary stereotype,” Swinton said.
“We were aware of that, always.”
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” hits theaters on Friday, August 26.
