 Swinton plays Malkovich's wife who engages in an affair with Clooney, although the two characters do not get along well.Clooney's and Swinton's characters also had a poor relationship in their previous film together, "Michael Clayton", prompting Clooney to say to Swinton at the end of a shoot, "Well, maybe one day we'll get to make a film together when we say one nice thing to each other.