In truth, Rachel Weisz was “just being rather stubborn.”
She had just spent months in the darkest depths of drama, shooting “The Constant Gardener” and “The Fountain.” It was time, she declared, for a comedy.
“Which was kind of exactly what I wasn’t being offered,” the 38-year-old actress recalls. Then she got her hands on a strange script called “The Brothers Bloom,” a con-man comedy that seemed equal parts whimsy and gunpowder.
“When I read this one, I thought, ‘Oh, yeah, this is the role, this is the one,’ ” she says on the phone from her home in New York a week before the film’s release.
But there was a problem: The movie “was not, I believe, something the director and producer were considering me for,” she explains.
No matter. Weisz, who won an Oscar for her role in “The Constant Gardener,” was already consumed with the notion of playing Penelope Stamp, a reclusive heiress who spends all of her time acquiring new hobbies. Read more… »
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