By number of millennialsRachel Weisz is above all Evelyn, the warm and intelligent bookseller of The Mummyreleased in 1999. In this charming adventure comedy with a Indiana Jonesthe actress gets out of the game and becomes a sex symbol. “It was full of stuff! She was feisty and prickly, innocent and silly, intelligent and sassy. turns on Rachel Weisz again, twenty years later.
Committed choices
The Hollywood industry of the 2000s continues to offer it to them secondary roles of the male hero. It doesn’t matter: Rachel Weisz will be one love interests unforgettable. Beyond her beauty, the actress exudes something enigmatic and potentially dark that makes its characters unique.
She stands out Fountain by Darren Aronofsky (2006) and The constant gardener directed by Fernando Meirelles in 2005. In this film about the illegal practices of the pharmaceutical industry, she plays Tessa, a murdered anti-globalization activist, who comes to life through the memories of her husband (Ralph Fiennes), seeking justice. When receives an Oscar for this role From a living ghost, Rachel Weisz pays tribute to the real activists who risk their lives to expose the abuses of power by these all-powerful corporations.
This Oscar opens the doors of rare female lead roles that are not based on male characters. In 2009, the actress captivates in the beautiful film Agora (directed by Alejandro Amenabar)where she plays Hypatia, an Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician who advised the most powerful men in Alexandria. A historical figure ahead of her time, assassinated in 415 by Christian fanatics, Hypatia has become a feminist icon.
In 2010, a Alone against the world by Larysa Kondracki Rachel Weisz plays the role of an honest policewoman, determined to dismantle a ring of prostitution. Did you say sisterhood? The actress then alternates between successful films, such as Jason Bourne: Legacy (2012) or The Amazing World of Oz (2013) and well-known dramas such as The deep blue sea (2011) or The lobster (2015) by Yorgos Lanthimos.
“A lot of times the female roles in the past I’ve found very simplified and I think it’s changing, which is really good. […] What I’m looking for are complicated characters. It is interesting and complex writing. explains.
Lesbian icon
Hollywood is not kind to actresses. Roles become rarer as they get into their thirties. The latest feminist wave, however, has allowed the creation of different female characters dusty archetypes. For several years Rachel Weisz has flourished in roles in which all the subversive charge of her acting explodes, until now suffocated by male gauze.
Among his score delightfully bitch in black comedy The Favouritewhere she plays again the lover of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) under the camera of Yórgos Lánthimos, the drama Disobedience where he lives an impossible love with Rachel McAdams and False pretextspsychosexual thriller centered on codependency between twin girls, one of which is a lesbian, Rachel Weisz has become the object of a Sapphic cult.
“It’s very different to play scenes between all women. Also, I enjoy the company of women. And so I guess I’m interested in the stories about them. […] The history of cinema is dotted with heterosexual love and buddy films, that I loved. But I also want more female stories. Not you ? », says to The Guardian.
At 53, Rachel Weisz has never been more venomous and sensual than in the roles of Beverly and Elliot Mantlethe gynecological sisters of False pretextswho want to improve women’s health. It was she who had the idea to reinvent this film directed in 1988 by David Cronenberg and brought by Jeremy Irons, changing the gender of the main character. He developed the project with screenwriter Alice Birch (Normal people). The result is a dark, gory, twisted series and a portrait of self-destructive twins that looks back to classic fantasy (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein).
It took Rachel Weisz to play the twins so that we are no longer talking about her famous husbands (Darren Aronofsky and Daniel Craig) or her beauty, but her talent as an actress.
What if what the show told us was that only Rachel Weisz deserves Rachel Weisz?
Source: Madmoizelle
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