Rachel Weisz

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🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The 1988 cult-favorite film Dead Ringers left quite an impression on actress Rachel Weisz when she was a teenager – so much so that she is now starring in an updated, and no less riveting, version of the psychological thriller. In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Willie gets together with the Academy Award winner to talk about playing identical twins in the new television series, the moment she won her Oscar, and the possibility of working on-screen with her husband, Daniel Craig.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:12.5	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:15.3	Got a great one for you this week with Academy Award winner Rachel Weiss.
0:19.9	Yes, everybody on your best behavior, we have an Oscar winner in our midst.
0:24.0	Rachel won that trophy in 2006 for best supporting actress for her performance in the constant
0:30.0	gardener.
0:31.0	She was nominated just a few years ago for that very same award for her performance in
0:35.0	the favorite.
0:36.0	But we got together a few days ago to talk about her latest project.
0:39.5	It's on Amazon Prime Video and it's called Dead Ringers.
0:43.8	If that title sounds familiar, that's because it's the same title of a 1988 film starring Jeremy
0:50.2	Irons, a David Cronenberg film, the great director, where Jeremy Irons plays twin
0:56.2	gynecologists.
0:57.2	They're identical twins.
0:58.2	He plays both parts and man, are they twisted?
1:01.9	Man, does it get dark?
1:02.9	Man, does it get weird?
1:04.1	So Rachel Weiss loved that movie back in the late 80s and she'll talk about why.
1:09.8	It sort of always was planted in the back of her head and a few years ago, she said,
1:13.3	why didn't we make that into a series?
1:15.8	Except the doctors are women and their twins.
1:18.5	And I will play both.
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