Rachel Weisz was desperate for Darren Aranofsky not to think she was a diva.

The ‘Mummy Returns’ actress, who now as a three-year-old son with the ‘Requiem for a Dream’ director, said she was so nervous ahead of their first meeting, she tried to impress him by behaving less like a star.

She explained: “I didn’t want this cool indie director to see me in this stretch limo! But as I stepped out, he was waiting there. I was like, ‘Argh! S*t!’ I felt like such an idiot.”

Since then, the pair worked together on art-house film ‘The Fountain’ with Australian actor Hugh Jackman.

Meanwhile, Rachel says her career makes her feel like “a spy” because she has to do so much research on every character she plays.

Discussing her career, Rachel said: “I think being an actress you almost are a kind of spy, finding out about different people and then posing as them, which is a lot of fun.”

Source: Exposay

Yesterday Rachel visited the show “The View” and talked about her new movie “The Lovely Bones” and some personal things. I can´t find a good version of the clip at the moment and I can´t view it because I don´t live in the United States but I will try to post the clip as soon as possible so please check back. For now I added HQ candids of Rachel leaving her apartment in New York for visiting “The View”.

Gallery Additions:
Latest Candids from 2010 – Leaving NY Apartment to visit “The View” (08) *HQs

I found better and more pictures from the “Vanity Fair” Spain and “Esquire” UK photoshoots. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do, I used one of the photos for our current layout. The new “Esquire” pictures are featured in the first moving magazine cover ever which you can view here.

Gallery Additions:
Session #117 Vanity Fair Spain Photoshoot (08)
Session #124 Esquire UK Photoshoot Moving Cover (04)

More Additions:
“The Lovely Bones” Movie Stills (02) *HQs
Sunday Express Scans (02) *Thanks, Lorna!

Finally Moviefone posted the interview with “The Lovely Bones” cast including Rachel. I added the clip to our Media Archive and be sure to check if your question made the cut.

Video Link:
“Unscripted” Interview on “The Lovely Bones”

Finally the official list for the spanish 2010 Goya Awards got released and wow Rachel and her new movie “Agora” are nominated for Best Actress, Best Film and Best Director. You can read the full list below and congratulation to Rachel. Keep fingers crossed that she wins and also gets nominated for BAFTA 2010.

Daniel Monzón’s prison drama Cell 211 and Alejandro Amenábar’s historical blockbuster Ágora (aka Mists of Time), with respectively 16 and 13 nominations, are the two leaders in the race for the 2010 Premios Goya (or Goya Awards), the Spanish Academy Awards. Actress Paz Vega and filmmaker Javier Fesser, accompanied by Academy president Alex de la Iglesia, made the announcements earlier today in Madrid.

Besides Cell 211 and Ágora, the two other best picture nominees are Fernando Trueba’s The Dancer and the Thief, Spain’s submission for the best foreign language film Academy Award, and Argentinean filmmaker Juan Jose Campanella’s Buenos Aires-set psychological thriller The Secret of Her Eyes — which, curiously, is also up for the best Spanish-language foreign film. Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces received five nominations, including a best actress nod for Penélope Cruz and best original screenplay for Almodóvar.

Among the acting nominees are Argentinean veteran Ricardo Darín for The Secret of Her Eyes, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz for Ágora, Maribel Verdú for Tetro, Lola Dueñas for Yo, también, Luis Tosar for Cell 211, and Jordi Mollá for El cónsul de Sodoma.

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The longlist of the may nominees for BAFTA Awards got released. “The Lovely Bones” got added for nearly every category including Rachel for Supporting Actress. We wish her good luck and hopefully she gets nominated. You can read the full article and list below.

“An Education” led the 2010 BAFTA film awards. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced its longlist and the coming-of-age drama scored 17 mentions including best film, director, and actress for Carey Mulligan.

Not too far behind was Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” with 15 mentions and Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” scored 12. Meanwhile, James Cameron’s “Avatar” and Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones” received 11 mentions apiece.

This longlist will be cut down to a shortlist from 15 mentions per category (except Best Animated Film) to 5. They will be announced January 21st. Then, the winners will be crowned one month later on Feb. 21st.

Here’s the full BAFTA longlist:

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