Harper's BAZAAR's set of photographs was taken by Rachel Weisz in a tree-lined environment at the Plantation Foundation in New York, at the age of 49, in the midst of a vibrant green glow of flowers.
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In the special period, theaters around the world have been seriously affected, and Marvel Studios' latest comic book adaptation film "Black Widow" has also adjusted the schedule, so Rachel Weiz's original publicity schedule has also been changed to bringing a baby at home.
Now she is a mother of two children, and her acting career has not relaxed at all. Her pursuit and passion for her work has a deeper meaning — to leave some role models for her daughter on the screen that are worth pursuing; and as a new Marvel superhero, she also has her own real-life heroes that she admires.
An actress who runs a business at home with a baby
Sunlight shines through the high windows into an open-plan living room, a spacious room with a fireplace hanging from the white ash walls, in a rustic style. "It's a good place." Rachel Weiss curled up on a wooden floor, wearing a Nordic-style Michael Kors fluffy white pullover with an oversized pair of glasses on the bridge of her nose.
Her dark curls parted from the middle, hanging down on either side of her pale and beautiful cheeks, and a toddler hung around her neck. The little one was wearing a gray pullover and tights, and she obviously had no idea that her mother was at work and needed to be interviewed by the media.
"I know it's going to be a bit boring." Rachel Weiss coaxed the child gently, "But please come and sit with your mother, and we can draw together." At this time, the child began to learn to speak, presumably this is the work state that every public figure has become accustomed to.
They originally separated work and life, but the arrival of the special period delayed the shooting and publicity work, and the few interviews that could be completed through remote connections were also conducted at home, at which time the children broke into the work, often making people in front of and behind the camera cry and laugh.
But in Rachel Weiss' view, this is not the child's fault, the child can not choose the parents, nor will they understand that the parents as public figures are always in the spotlight. "Some Lego?" Our favorite thing to do is Play Lego! At this time, the little guy shouted "no, no, no", and made a fuss.
In desperation, Rachel Weiss opened the soundtrack of "Frozen" and began to sing along, and the child's mood gradually stabilized. At this time, "007 James Bond" came to rescue her in distress - Daniel Craig strode in, pounced on her daughter, and took her away, and Rachel Weiss finally gained the freedom to work.
The advent of special periods forces everyone to maintain work and life in unprecedented ways, and such interviews are usually conducted in a quiet restaurant in Brooklyn, and the small episodes in the artist's family life are often far away from this work.
But the publicity schedule for Rachel Weiss' most recent film, Black Widow, was postponed along with the release schedule, so the visit was conducted by video conferencing, with Rachel Weiz and her family hiding in a country house in upstate New York, away from the crowds and panic of special times. Thanks to this, Rachel showed a more private side of her life, sharing her pottery in the kitchen, sharing her adolescent son's home-school classes, and sharing her own bread.
A superhero in independent film industry
These topics stand in stark contrast to the topics at work — Rachel Weiss' latest screen image is playing a superhero in the Marvel Studios comic adaptation of Black Widow, featuring a Russian super spy and a trained top samurai named "Melina Vostov". She is equipped with state-of-the-art agent props, including a high-tech bracelet that, when activated, emits an electromagnetic force known as the "widow bite" that renders the enemy incapacitated.
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Due to the film's delayed release, Rachel Weiss was silent about any plot-related discussions. "It's almost impossible to say anything, and that's one of the many strange things." According to online reports, her role is an almost motherly presence for the "Black Widow" sisters played by Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pew.
Of course, the mother she plays in the movie will most likely not be like coaxing her daughter at home, holding the sisters and humming Let It Go with the "Frozen" soundtrack. For the actresses who worked with the two partners, Rachel Weiz described them as " very talented, and the work is very hard, they make the shooting seem a lot easier, there are a lot of action scenes in the shooting, and everyone on the scene is very energetic and exciting." I had to do something very complicated, like beating up a bunch of people, throwing them on the other side of the room, and then jumping over their shoulders. ”
When Rachel Weiss joined the group, her youngest daughter was just 9 months old. Rachel Weiss admits that the project was no small challenge, with a white bodysuit in the costume style. "I think all women will realize how intimidating this is, and this period can really be said to be completely completely powerless." She smiled and said, "I'm really weak and my body is loose. But this project is also a good motivation for me to practice Pilates and aerobic dance. ”
Joining the Marvel Universe seems like a counterintuitive choice for Rachel Weiss. After all, her husband, Daniel Craig, has become a world-famous super-spy for playing 007 (Daniel was about to usher in the final film of James Bond's tenure this year, "007: No Time to Die", but it was postponed for special reasons), and playing such a similar role would put the family's reputation in "danger".
In addition, Rachel Weiss has always been a smart and intelligent woman, with a serious nature, and has always been cautious about the game of fame and fortune. In recent years she has been committed to starring in interesting independent films and supporting independent film projects in her own way when necessary.
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A few years ago she bought the rights to Naomi Oldman's novel Disobedience, about a derelict Orthodox Jewish woman who returns from New York to her hometown of London to attend the funeral of her long-separated father and reunite with her former lover. The novel was subsequently remade into the 2017 love film of the same name, starring Rachel Wiez and Rachel McAdams, while Rachel Weiss was also the producer of the film, and the project was widely acclaimed.
Rachel Weiss and Sam Clafrin also starred in another suspense film about love, Floating Dreams, which was also produced independently. In 2019, Rachel Weiss successfully played Queen Anne's confidant Sarah Churchill in "The Favourite", and her outstanding performance won the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Oscar nomination.
So far, high-budget commercial blockbusters, tight uniforms, and those agent props are not in her pocket. "It's a huge machine, and Marvel is a whole universe." As a project participant, she also felt the power of the Marvel Universe.
Determined to create for the growth of women
In fact, before she opened the heavily guarded script, she was already drawn to the Black Widow project. Not just because of Marvel's influence, but also because of the director Kate Sautlán who was chosen by Marvel to make the movie "Black Widow". Rachel Weiss has admired Kate Sautlán's work for years, and Rachel Weiss couldn't have been happier to work with her on a superhero film project.
Speaking of Kate Sauterland's self-written and self-directed 2012 German-language film Girl Loho, Rachel Weiss was thrilled. This independent film tells the story of a child of a Nazi family who flees his homeland shortly after the end of World War II and begins a painful and profound experience of growing up.
"The most unusual thing about this film is that it allows you to measure the world from a completely different perspective, and even begin to sympathize with the families of the Nazis." Rachel Weiss' own parents came to London as refugees from the German Third Reich.
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"The key message of the whole film is that people still have to learn to communicate, which is a very amazing point of view, and I think it's a very important film in terms of emotion, psychology, etc. Her female perspective is very special, fresh and touching. She has a feminine instinct and tenderness, but at the same time powerful. I want to declare out loud that I love this director! ”
In any case, the new generation of superhero movies "Black Widow" is obviously more interesting, delicate and focused on women than the female heroism movies of previous years. "When I watchEd Wonder Woman, I fully identified with the character, which resonated more than I did when I watched the heroic character in a male action movie. There is such a tomboy in the story, she grew up, and now she is saving the world! ”
Rachel Weiss has the same passion for Brie Larson's Captain Marvel. "I just love watching women bravely deal with everything the world throws at her, quite tough, but also fun, full of inner vulnerability." 」 It also piqued my interest in seeing how a woman can face a powerful enemy. Captain Marvel's superpowers are incredible. She can fly! When I watched this movie, I felt like I was her, watching women take off! ”
As a parent of a young girl, Rachel Weiss is particularly committed to solving the problem of the representation of women on screen. She remembers that when she was young, she also had many screen idols, but they were all disappointing. "The '80s and '90s were a terrible thing for women. But I used to watch earlier black-and-white movies with my mom, and Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, and Katherine Hepburn were all very powerful female characters on the screen. Betty Davis doesn't have superpowers, but she's also powerful. ”
"I do think it's important for girls growing up to see women at the forefront and center of the story, to see women in important positions. This is an identity, and it shows a possibility. We need more stories about women, we need more examples for women. ”
Admittedly, Rachel Weiss is a good example of women in herself, and in this video conference interview, she shows how a working woman who is a mother treats life and work, answering questions from the media and humming meaningless tunes to coax the children around her. "Isn't that exactly what all mothers do all the time?" She laughed, "We've been doing this for centuries, a tribute to all working mothers!" ”
A shift in perspective brought about by age
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Rachel Weiz gave birth to her daughter in August 2018 at the age of 48, having already had a son in her marriage to director Darren Aronofsky. Daniel Craig also had a daughter with his ex-wife Fiona Louden before marrying Rachel Weiss. Asked if her second motherhood experience was different, Rachel Weiz replied: "I'm more tired than I was last time, after all, this car has driven more miles." But I'm really happy and enjoyed it, and the arrival of my daughter is a blessing for me. ”
Age and experience have given her more patience. "Yesterday we had planned to go out for a walk and I had already planned where to go, but we were only two meters out and everything was disrupted. An interesting stick was found first, and then a moth was found. Didn't we end up pairing up anywhere? She looked down and asked her daughter, "But I feel more flexible." ”
When not working, Rachel Weiss generally does not hire a babysitter, but the whole person does not seem to be dragged down by the chores of caring for children, and "Mr. 007" also plays an indispensable role in this parenting battle. Sharing the secret of the beauty technique, Rachel Weiss laughed at herself: "Because my skin is always very greasy, I hated my skin when I was a teenager and always had acne. So I drank a lot of water. ”
So far, there's no indication that age will affect Rachel Weiz's screen career, but on the contrary, she has many projects in the works.
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Rachel Weiz, an independent film based on Max Potter's book of the same name, tells the story of Lenny's family moving to a community village near London because of her mysterious past and various magical people, and Rachel Weiss is both a star and a producer; and An Elizabeth Taylor's biographical film "Special Relationship", which focuses on the transformation of legendary actresses from actors to social activists in the 1980s, are all exciting. However, Rachel Weiss has made it very clear that although the other in the family is also an actor, the two have absolutely no plans to work together in the short term.
"Everything I'm working on right now is set in the UK." As a British, Rachel Weiss still hopes to move back to London at some point in the future, after all, her 90-year-old father is still living there, and she is particularly worried about him. Wouldn't it be nice if she was a true superhero who could descend from the sky to solve the current crisis?
She was also eager. "But I'm not a nurse or a doctor or a cleaner or a teacher, they're the real superheroes." I didn't actually work. I can't save anyone's life right now, but maybe I can help people cheer up. ”
This article was originally published in the August issue of Harper's Bazaar Foreign Stars
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