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“I like that feeling of being scared, of thinking, I don’t know if I can do this: it’s too hard, it’s too complicated, it’s too unknowable,” says Rachel Weisz. She has just dropped off her 9-year-old son, Henry, at school, and is now on the phone explaining the uncanny allure of fear. From where the Academy sits, Weisz has little to be afraid of. She has an irresistible mix of talent (an Oscar and a Golden Globe for 2005’s The Constant Gardener and a Laurence Olivier Award for her excellent Blanche DuBois are just a few of her laurels), brains (she’s a Cambridge graduate), and beauty (those bee-stung lips are legendary)—and a made-for-the-movies marriage to James Bond actor Daniel Craig. But Weisz insists that self-doubt is, in fact, among her chief assets as an actress, and one that keeps her unwaveringly on course.
It’s this kind of candor that lends Weisz’s fierce intellect an approachable warmth. In conversation, she darts nimbly from topic to cultural topic, referencing everything from Romantic poetry (“I’m crazy for Wordsworth”) to Polish theater director Tadeusz Kantor. Yet her dialogue is peppered with conspiratorial giggles and she is disarmingly curious. Although she’s meant to be the one interviewed, Weisz asks just as many questions as she answers (“How old are you?” “Are you an academic?” “Who do you call when you want to have fun?” and so on).
A few answers on Weisz’s backstory: She was born in North London in 1970 to a Viennese psychoanalyst mother and a Hungarian inventor father. As a teen, she made the rounds of clubs and warehouse parties, defying her parents at every opportunity. “It was 1985, the beginning of the rave scene, and it was pretty amazing,” Weisz recalls. Later, she landed a spot at Cambridge, where she studied English Literature and founded an absurdist theater group. She was not, she says, a big deal in the drama community on campus. “I was a bit shy, really, and terrible at auditioning,” Weisz notes. In fact, “there was a moment when I thought I would do some kind of Ph.D.,” she says. But her troupe garnered attention from the right people and acting beckoned—first in the form of cameos in British shows and made-for-TV movies, then in film and theater, and finally, in 1999, her Hollywood breakthrough with a role in The Mummy.
“I like that feeling of being scared, of thinking, I don’t know if I can do this: it’s too hard, it’s too complicated, it’s too unknowable,” says Rachel Weisz. She has just dropped off her 9-year-old son, Henry, at school, and is now on the phone explaining the uncanny allure of fear. From where the Academy sits, Weisz has little to be afraid of. She has an irresistible mix of talent (an Oscar and a Golden Globe for 2005’s The Constant Gardener and a Laurence Olivier Award for her excellent Blanche DuBois are just a few of her laurels), brains (she’s a Cambridge graduate), and beauty (those bee-stung lips are legendary)—and a made-for-the-movies marriage to James Bond actor Daniel Craig. But Weisz insists that self-doubt is, in fact, among her chief assets as an actress, and one that keeps her unwaveringly on course.
It’s this kind of candor that lends Weisz’s fierce intellect an approachable warmth. In conversation, she darts nimbly from topic to cultural topic, referencing everything from Romantic poetry (“I’m crazy for Wordsworth”) to Polish theater director Tadeusz Kantor. Yet her dialogue is peppered with conspiratorial giggles and she is disarmingly curious. Although she’s meant to be the one interviewed, Weisz asks just as many questions as she answers (“How old are you?” “Are you an academic?” “Who do you call when you want to have fun?” and so on).
A few answers on Weisz’s backstory: She was born in North London in 1970 to a Viennese psychoanalyst mother and a Hungarian inventor father. As a teen, she made the rounds of clubs and warehouse parties, defying her parents at every opportunity. “It was 1985, the beginning of the rave scene, and it was pretty amazing,” Weisz recalls. Later, she landed a spot at Cambridge, where she studied English Literature and founded an absurdist theater group. She was not, she says, a big deal in the drama community on campus. “I was a bit shy, really, and terrible at auditioning,” Weisz notes. In fact, “there was a moment when I thought I would do some kind of Ph.D.,” she says. But her troupe garnered attention from the right people and acting beckoned—first in the form of cameos in British shows and made-for-TV movies, then in film and theater, and finally, in 1999, her Hollywood breakthrough with a role in The Mummy.
快问快答
What’s the last thing that made you laugh?
High Maintenance, the Vimeo web series.
What’s your beauty secret weapon?
Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage.
Ideal hostess gift to give and be given?
Peonies and Montrachet wine.
Go-to designer?
I collect Ossie Clark. I have an Ossie Clark dress that is my go-to for parties.
Who’s a woman you would steal a feature from if you could?
I don’t want to steal, but I admire Catherine Deneuve’s hair in the Polanski film Repulsion, and I love everything she wears. But I so don’t look like her; she’s so far away from me.
Book that changed your life?
There are so many books that changed my life at different times, but I guess the earliest was The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers.
What’s your star sign?
Pisces—very emotional and contradictory. And I get on very well with other Pisces.
High maintenance or low?
Low.
Who would you have paint your portrait?
My son.
What’s your signature beauty look?
Mascara. Black, splotchy mascara.
What’s your cocktail of choice?
I do like martinis. Vodka martinis.
Signature scent?
For Her by Narciso Rodriguez.
What’s your favorite thing about riding the subway?
There are often guys who drum on, like, plastic cans—it transforms the ride. I’ve got a real thing for drummers.
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
I love, love, love Wordsworth but I’m not sure I’d want him at the dinner. Maybe I’d get him round for tea.
What’s the last thing that made you laugh?
High Maintenance, the Vimeo web series.
What’s your beauty secret weapon?
Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage.
Ideal hostess gift to give and be given?
Peonies and Montrachet wine.
Go-to designer?
I collect Ossie Clark. I have an Ossie Clark dress that is my go-to for parties.
Who’s a woman you would steal a feature from if you could?
I don’t want to steal, but I admire Catherine Deneuve’s hair in the Polanski film Repulsion, and I love everything she wears. But I so don’t look like her; she’s so far away from me.
Book that changed your life?
There are so many books that changed my life at different times, but I guess the earliest was The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers.
What’s your star sign?
Pisces—very emotional and contradictory. And I get on very well with other Pisces.
High maintenance or low?
Low.
Who would you have paint your portrait?
My son.
What’s your signature beauty look?
Mascara. Black, splotchy mascara.
What’s your cocktail of choice?
I do like martinis. Vodka martinis.
Signature scent?
For Her by Narciso Rodriguez.
What’s your favorite thing about riding the subway?
There are often guys who drum on, like, plastic cans—it transforms the ride. I’ve got a real thing for drummers.
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
I love, love, love Wordsworth but I’m not sure I’d want him at the dinner. Maybe I’d get him round for tea.
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