Rachel Weisz news 2:oscar winner Rachel Weisz back in full swing
Rachel Weisz news 2:oscar winner Rachel Weisz back in full swing
MUDDLING THROUGH ON MALTA
Weisz said she brings her son with her on location but has had to adjust to demands of balancing diapers and directors.
“You muddle through and figure it out and get exhausted and keep muddling through,” she said. “I just joined the ranks of millions of working mums out there and I have great respect for them because there is a lot of juggling to do.”
“Blueberry Nights” is one of numerous plum jobs Weisz said have come her way since she won the Academy Award as best supporting actress for her 2005 portrait of a determined social activist and diplomat’s wife in “The Constant Gardener,” based on the John le Carre novel.
“I’ve been offered more interesting roles with incredibly interesting directors and I’m sure the Oscar has a lot to do with that,” said the actress, who first gained wide U.S. notice in the 1999 blockbuster remake of “The Mummy.”
In “Agora,” from Chilean director Alejandro Amenabar, she is cast as the astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world amid the rise of Christianity around 300 A.D.
For “The Lovely Bones,” adapted from the Alice Sebold novel, Weisz and Mark Wahlberg co-star as parents devastated by the murder of their young daughter, who continues to watch over her family from heaven.
Weisz plays a lighter role, that of a wealthy but sheltered heiress who turns the tables on a pair of sibling con artists in “The Brothers Bloom,” due for release in October.
Weisz, the London-born daughter of Jewish parents who fled Nazi-occupied Hungary and Austria, has come a long way since performing in her own Cambridge University stage troupe.
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