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Here is the link to the scans from Italian Vogue Dec 2007
http://www.rachel-weisz.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=463
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Rachel Weisz: the Rachel capers
[iht.com]Rachel Weisz: the Rachel capers
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 26/01/2008
Actress Rachel Weisz talks to Will Lawrence about her new film, and her unstarry family life in Manhattan
'After I had my baby I found myself wanting to do comedy," says Rachel Weisz, the Oscar-winning English actress, who gave birth to her first child, Henry, in May 2006.
'I craved cheese - then comedy': Rachel Weisz
"It's difficult to explain, but it was like a craving: while I was pregnant I craved cheese; after the birth, I craved comedy." The upshot is an unexpected role for Weisz in Definitely, Maybe, the latest romantic comedy from Working Title Films, the British production company behind the likes of Love Actually and Notting Hill. It's a rare comic appearance for the 36-year-old Londoner, her first since starring opposite Hugh Grant in 2002's About a Boy.
"I've not done much romantic comedy before," concedes Weisz, "because I have a problem with the way the genre often prescribes the dream of living happily ever after. But Definitely, Maybe is far more cynical than most of them. It messes with the genre, and says that love isn't always like it is in the movies."
Written and directed by Adam Brooks, screenwriter of Wimbledon and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the film focuses on a thirtysomething Manhattan father (Ryan Reynolds) who recounts to his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin), the story of how he met her mother. Weaving in his romantic adventures with three separate women (including Weisz's journalist Summer Hartley), he changes their names, leaving Maya (and us) to guess which is the one he eventually marries. As Breslin puts it in the film: it's "a love story-mystery".
Weisz was born in London in March 1971 to a Hungarian inventor of medical devices, and an Austrian psychoanalyst mother. Their marriage ended in divorce when Weisz was 15. "But hey," she says with a smile, "I turned out OK." Around the time of her parents' separation, Weisz started to play up at school. "I was very disruptive," she says. "I had a complete lack of respect for authority." After a number of incidents, she was "asked to leave" her school, North London Collegiate, and sent for a one-year stint to Benenden boarding school in Kent, before transferring to St Paul's back in London.
It was there that she met Miss Gough, an English teacher who helped spark an interest in literature which eventually led Weisz to a place at Cambridge University.
"Without her I wouldn't have gone to university at all," says Weisz. "At school, I was one of those students that was always under-performing. I needed someone to engage me. Someone who wasn't interested in talking about how unruly I was, and instead to say that they believed in me and thought that I had a gift." At Cambridge she founded the Talking Tongues theatre group with fellow student Sasha Hails. The pair took a two-woman improvised show called Slight Possession to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1991 and promptly won the Guardian Youth Drama Award.
"We were called the 'giants of the fringe'," she says with a giggle. "Although actually it was just me and Sasha in floral dresses with a stepladder, hurling each other around the stage until we bled. We thought that was very cool and rad! At the time I was very idealistic about avant-garde, alternative theatre. Had I been asked to do a movie, I wouldn't have said no - it wasn't against my beliefs - but it was out of reach at that time." That time did not last very long. After Edinburgh, Slight Possession transferred to the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, where an agent spotted her and helped launch her film career.
Weisz's first big-screen role came with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty in 1996, followed by David Leland's The Land Girls. In between her two outings as an archeologist in the blockbusting Mummy films, she appeared in Sunshine, István Szabó's labour of love about a Hungarian Jewish family.
Her big break came, however, in 2005, when her passionate portrayal of a hot-headed activist in The Constant Gardener landed her the 2006 Oscar for best supporting actress. "Once I pretty much did what was offered," she says. "Now I can choose far more freely." One of her first major choices, was a role in The Lovely Bones, a hotly anticipated adaptation of Alice Sebold's international bestseller by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. Weisz plays the grieving mother of a 14-year-old girl who is raped, murdered, and dismembered by a neighbour, then watches from heaven as her family and friends struggle to cope with her death.
"The film is incredibly dark and upsetting," says Weisz. "As an actor in it, the trick is being able to turn off at the end of the day." Weisz lives in Manhattan with her fiancé, Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky, and their son.
"As a family, we lead a very normal life," she says. "We don't sit around and engage in intellectual conversation. Darren's not much up for that. When I first met him, I thought I was going to be meeting a really intense, indie weirdo," she says, in a conspiratorial whisper, "but he's actually unspeakably normal."
'Definitely, Maybe' is out on Feb 8.
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Lovely dress, bad coat.
OMG that's my new favorite photoshoot of hers! Absolutely stunning! I have such a crush!!
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Rachel Weisz @ premiere of "Definitely, Maybe" NYC x6
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Is she wearing mcqueen?
Yes its McQueen Spring 2008 I believe
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Rachel Weisz in Alexander McQueen
Weisz looked ready for Valentine's Day at the New York premiere of Definitely, Maybe. The actress accented a formfitting gray dress with a shiny red obi belt and shoes.
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#615... Just WOW!! This is sooo gorgeous!
