Rachel Weisz

[Hchloe]

I love the LV gown. I wish the top was more fitted, though.

 

[Yohji]

How she managed to make that Valentino dress look semi-appealing, I'll never know.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

i love this little black shift with the white ruffled placket - so sweet on her!! she looks beautiful

 

[catherine88]

Out and About in Toronto, September 12



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[Not Plain Jane]

she looks stunning lately
not sure if it's the lighter hair
her outfits
possible fillers?
but she's just looking beautiful.

 

[AtticusFinch]

I mean speechless. This woman is extraordinary.

 

[jexxica]

'The Lobster' Portraits TIFF September 2015

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[tixola]

Rachel Weisz dazzled in a sequinned dress as she arrived at a photocall for The Lobster at the 53rd New York Film Festival on Sunday

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[Fabulyss]

she looks stunning lately
not sure if it's the lighter hair
her outfits
possible fillers?
but she's just looking beautiful.

All of the above, methinks.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

"the lobster" is so good. rachel is wonderful in it.

 

[Yohji]

^Looking forward to that one. Love the director and the cast is to die for.

Rachel Weisz is our November issue cover star

Photographed by Tom Craig and styled by Leith Clark.

Rachel Weisz has never settled for the easy option, nor relied on her undeniable beauty, choosing instead to take on more challenging films. In doing so, she sidesteps Hollywood sexism, while also rising above the stereotyping that might otherwise accompany her role as wife to Daniel Craig...

There is a circus in Chiswick, says Rachel Weisz, to beat all circuses. It’s not your average big-tent affair – morose animals, sparkly leotards – but a wonderland. There are Middle Eastern funk bands and African acrobats, clowns (proper clowns, not the disturbing, flower-squirting imitations). It’s the best live show she’s ever seen, she says. Weisz is utterly seduced. Sitting in a comically oversize chair in a Camden pub near her London home, drinking milky breakfast tea, she is momentarily seized by a desire to juggle. ‘I’d love to join the circus,’ she says.

It’s hard to imagine Weisz as a clown. In person, she is hushed, occasionally sweary, but even then somehow instilling her swear-words with a sort of high-class grace. She’s dressed casually – in tight blue jeans and a sweater, dark hair loose around her face, plus a multicoloured Swatch watch which, thanks to its berserk design, she can’t actually use to tell the time. But she moves with a delicacy that suggests a dancer (her secret dream, she says, is to perform in a Pina Bausch show, even though, much to her regret, she can’t dance). She talks with a lightly worn intellectual heft, weaving into conversation references ranging from the Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgard to the American comedian Jill Soloway. Not that she’s overly serious: Weisz is more than ready to find herself ridiculous, and is uncomfortable talking about acting – about how she acts – because, she says, ‘you tend to sound like a bit of a jerk’.

She doesn’t sound like a jerk – she’s too self-aware for that – but Weisz does take her work seriously. Over the years, her choices have tended towards the earnest and difficult. There have been exceptions, of course – The Mummy and The Mummy Returns – but somehow Weisz always seemed a little out of place in an Egyptian-themed archaeological romp. Her Oscar, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, was picked up in 2006 for her portrayal of Tessa Quayle, a murdered humanitarian activist, in The Constant Gardener. In The Deep Blue Sea (2011), she played Hester Collyer, a woman tortured by an impossible passion for a dastardly pilot, played by Tom Hiddleston (the performance won her a Golden Globe nomination). In her most recent film, The Lobster, directed by the young Surrealist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, she plays the part of an anonymous woman living deep in a forest, banished by a dystopian society that rejects, and hunts, single people who refuse or fail to have a relationship. Weisz spends most of the film in layers of black waterproof gear, make-up free in a film shot entirely in natural light, straggly-haired, with a constant look of forlorn hope on her face. She falls in love with David, played with almost unrecognisable gentleness by a portly and bespectacled Colin Farrell. ‘I saw him in Cannes,’ says Weisz. ‘He’d lost all the weight. But he’ll always be that lovely, pudgy, tender sweetheart to me.’ In the film, Weisz is allowed brief moments of joy and absurdity, but this is typical territory for her: way off-centre, intense, romantic, tragic. If she’s a clown, then she’s the quietly weeping one you feel sorry for.

Weisz likes to take risks. At this stage in her career, aged 45, critically acclaimed, a long scroll of films to her name, the challenge is to find them. She wants the unusual parts, thorny women, complexity. The Lobster came about because she’d watched an earlier Lanthimos film, called Dogtooth, and was smitten by his weird, original vision. She invited him to tea – here, in the same Camden pub – and suggested he make a love story with her in it. To her delight, he agreed. For one reason or another, it never came to pass, but he sent her his next script. For Lanthimos, the chance to work with Weisz was a boost. ‘I knew she was a very good actress beforehand,’ Lanthimos told me on the phone, ‘but to work with her I realised how much more potential she has, and how uncontrollable she can be, how she can go into all these different directions if you allow her to. She’s kind of fearless, and not composed, but in the best sense. She can really go for stuff.’

Read the full interview with Rachel Weisz in the November issue of Harper's Bazaar, out 8 October.

harpersbazaar.co.uk

 

[Not Plain Jane]

pretty styling; beautiful cover...(top one)

 

[KateTheGreatest]

HARPER'S BAZAAR UK NOVEMBER 2015
PHOTOGRAPHER: TOM CRAIG
CELEB: RACHEL WEISZ
STYLING: LEITH CLARK
HAIR: GEORGE NORTHWOOD
MAKE UP: KAY MONTANO
NAILS: SABRINA GAYLE


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[Nefertiti87]

She is such stunner, I just love her on that new cover. True English rose

 

[jexxica]

Rachel Weisz attends 'The Lobster' - Dare Gala, In Association With Time Out during the BFI London Film Festival at Vue Leicester Square on October 13, 2015 in London, England.

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[Rose n Toast]

Pretty!

 

[jexxica]

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[jexxica]

'Youth' Red Carpet arrivals during the BFI London Film Festival at Vue Leicester Square on October 15, 2015 in London, England.

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[iclawhands]

She is so totally stunning.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

oh, i agree!
she's like romance, embodied.

and i've said it before, but see "the lobster" if only for rachel and colin's performances. it's so weird and wonder-full.