Reflections with Rachel Weisz #Netaporter
Love this interview and shoot ( I want all the clothes !) with Rachel Weisz in Netaporter.
‘Almost 25 years after The Mummy made her a star, RACHEL WEISZ is taking on one of her most ambitious projects to date: producing and starring – as twins, no less – in psychological TV thriller Dead Ringers. The Oscar winner talks to TYLER McCALL about acting against herself, the pursuit of pleasure, and keeping her private life…
As twins in psychological TV thriller Dead Ringers. “The idea of having these two women at the pinnacle of their professional lives, but their private lives are so dysfunctional, and so aberrant, and so bizarre, that contrast – it doesn’t get any better.”
On finding complex roles for women: “Oftentimes, with roles for women in the past, I’ve found them very oversimplified, and I think that’s changing, which is really good. The thing I’m looking for is complicated characters. It’s interesting, complex writing.”
On acting against herself in Dead Ringers: “Day one, it was a mindf-ck. But by the end, it just became like breathing.”
On mirroring current issues in Dead Ringers: “Everything’s in conversation with each other in different times, and right now, we’re in a particular moment – I think the show definitely is quite now, and quite future as well.”
On her character Evelyn in 1999’s The Mummy: “She was lots of things! She was feisty and prickly and innocent and goofy and clever and ballsy. And she was a librarian in an action movie! The character and the writing [were] a real breath of fresh air.”
On using her role in The Mummy as a reference point for what she still looks for in projects:“I definitely love the humor in The Mummy, for instance – and it couldn’t be more different than Dead Ringers. But I’m really drawn to that more and more now, looking for some fun. Women pursuing pleasure is really interesting to me. Elliot is very much in that vein: she loves to eat, she loves to have sex. Female desire is really interesting, and I think we don’t get enough of that.”
On why she doesn’t have a social media presence: “I’m not very technologically savvy; I would be really crap at it.
On keeping her private life just that:“I suppose, for me, the words ‘private life’ means just that: that you have a private life, which is the real-life stuff. And then there’s the fantasy stuff.”
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