Tilda Swinton Would Be 'Only Too Happy' To Play Conan O'Brien

FROM MTV.COM: Once upon a time, two late-night legends butted heads in a battle over who would host "The Tonight Show," giving birth to a venomous based-on-fact book and movie called "The Late Shift." More than a decade later, Jay Leno is caught up in more high-profile hijinks, this time with Conan O'Brien — and if another movie is made depicting the late-night drama, Coco might have found the thespian to portray him ... in Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton?

When O'Brien closed out his all-too-brief "Tonight Show" hosting duties last week, he requested during Friday's final episode that if a "Late Shift"-like movie is made of the recent battle between himself, NBC and Jay Leno, he would "like to be played by Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton." As side-by-side photos of the red-headed actress and O'Brien appeared onscreen, the joke got some of the evening's biggest laughs.

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