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Show EWAS I) = Rachel Weisz got herfirst theatrical WEISZ Personal: Born March 7, 1971, in London, England. Films: Include Death Machine, 1995; Stealing Beauty, 1996; Chain Reaction, 1996;Going All the Way: 1997: Bent, 1997: Swept From the Sea, 1998; The Land Girls 1998:The Mummy, 1999: Sunshine,1999: This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis, 2000; Beautiful Creatures, 1001; Enemyat the Gates, 2001; The Mummy Returns, 2001, ER FAMILY NAME, Weisz (pronounced Vice”), is decidedly mittel-European. but whenRachelstarts to speak proper Queen's English, you know you've got a Brit on your hands—oneeducated at Cambridge University, no less. “Myfather was from Hungary—Budapest,” she told me. “My mother’s from Vienna, but T was born andraised in North London.I still live in London but have come upin the world.” Rachelhas three films soon to be released, including a sequel to her hit with Brendan Fraser, The Mummy. in Beautiful Creatures, opening in April, Rachel and co-star Susan Lynch are menaced by dangerous menin Glasgow, Scotland, and the Includes women fight back. Any overtones Scariet and “Not realBlack, 1993. is much darker, weirder, stronger and includes Design more sophisticated. I'm proud of for Living, 1994; Suddenly, it—the darkened reality—but it's Last Summer, also funny. Very Coen Brothers1999. esque. They told us we could be Theater: “We knew the original wasn't Gambritige-educated going to be an art-house film,” said Rachel.Wasit“Buttoo old-fashthere were aptnags Rachel WelSZ doubts: sai hel. “| the ioned? Butit reminded me of Romancing the Stone, that blend is coming backin of horror, romance and adven- as odd as we liked. I's the best ture. Also a wholesome inno- 7/@ Mummy Returns, 1942 siege of Stalingrad. “I play a civilian called upon to help defend the city against the Germans,”she said. “I begin in civil defense and then become a sniper.” Rachel, who'd never before fired a gun, was assigned exp a Cambridge undergraduate. “We were required to write our own plays.”said Rachel. “Another girl and! wrote them together, basically through improvisation.” Rachelstars in Beautiful Creatures with Susan Lynch, &@ wonderful stage actress. “I'm a serious fan of hers,” Rachel said. “4 met her for the first time at a barn dance, where she was with her thenboyfriend, and I'd never seen anything as striking as the two of them dancing. Now we've'become really good friends.” Rachel is a natural brunette, but they decided that she'd make a good platinum blonde for her role in Beautiful Creatures as Petula, who has her “airhead™ moments. Did she have tun filming in Glasgow? “Vou wouldn't expect it,”said Rachel, “but it's a big party city, The men dressed in big suits like Matia types, but the women really got dressed up to go out, There's a nightlife like the Riviera but in the north." |asked When about British officer to teach her Rachel jer own how een asniperrifle. “I fisciski i script that has come myway. cence.In the oe I'm much Rachel told me of Creatures soughther out after The Mummy. Had she expected Mummyto be such ahit? in a war, how you cast aside First, we get to see Rachel Beautiful Creatures your ownfeelings and become in Enemyat the Gates, opening I next week. It’s set during the and Enemyat the Gates, part of a huge machine.” tic lite h less a lisexy, fi io= Same cracaaied“nag, i f h TPSERO SIRS eeadToveun , . laugh: 4am HOWoooe stand, when you're under siege very unmarried.” a lap dancer.” play I mean the producers _I don’t i PAGE 14» MARCH Tl, 2001» |
