Rachel is featured with another amazing photoshoot in the latest “GQ” issue. I hope to get the photoshoot and the scans soon so stay tuned. For now you can find three new photoshoot pictures of Rachel in “GQ” in the gallery. Enjoy! You can read the article on Rachel below.
Weisz Squad:
Oscar winner Rachel Weisz plays a grieving mother in Peter Jackson’s trippy ‘The Lovely Bones.’ Don’t be surprised if you see her back at the podium.
Thesis: Rachel Weisz is a beguiling, maddening bundle of cool.
Evidence: In addition to all her obvious qualities—great beauty, extraordinary acting talent, Oxbridge brains—the girl knows how to eat. At an East Village sushi joint, not far from the home she shares with longtime fiancé Darren Aronofsky and their three-year-old son, Weisz methodically polished off the assembled cast of The Little Mermaid while discussing her career. As director Rian Johnson, who worked with Weisz on this year’s under-noticed The Brothers Bloom put it, “She makes me believe in God. And also, hate Him.”
Under-noticed is hardly likely to apply to Weisz’s newest role in The Lovely Bones, which opens in limited release on December 11 (before going wide in January). The film is based on Alice Sebold’s massive bestseller, was directed by Peter Jackson, and features the kind of grief-struck performance by Weisz, as the mother of a murdered teen, that fairly screams Oscar nomination.
It was hardly a straight path that led Weisz to such mainstream prestige fare. She began her performing career at one extreme end of the high-low spectrum—as part of an avant-garde improv troupe at Cambridge University devoted to “bizarre, fraught, Pinteresque naturalism”—and first became famous at the other end, classing up the Mummy franchise opposite Brendan Fraser. To win the role of a doomed activist in 2005′s The Constant Gardener, she had to wage an aggressive letter-writing campaign to director Fernando Meirelles, eventually flying to London on a rare day off to audition in person. A worthwhile effort: The film won Weisz an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and propelled her from pursuer to pursued.
From murdered activist to cancer victim (in Aronofsky’s The Fountain), to bereaved mom in The Lovely Bones, Weisz’s career has hardly been a giggle-fest. And yet her performances have been saved from becoming maudlin by their sense of living, breathing intelligence and by the actress’s almost vaudevillian sense of physical abandon. In Brothers Bloom, for instance, she was called upon to pedal a unicycle, ride a skateboard, rap, and juggle chainsaws—all deadpan and all in the same scene. Such unflappable versatility presumably served her well during the production of Bones, when Ryan Gosling, who had been set to play Weisz’s husband, was replaced by Mark Wahlberg just days before shooting started, over “creative differences.”
But perhaps the best thing to say about Weisz is that she’s the kind of woman who understands that mommy talk makes deadly conversation. “It’s so boring,” she said, deftly snapping up a final piece of tuna with a flash of her chopsticks. “There’s nothing more boring than parents talking about their children. They’re cute little things, but it’s just not interesting.”
Beguiling. Maddening. Cool.
Source: GQ
