Rachel Weisz wants superhero role
Actor Rachel Weisz wants to star in a movie like Wonder Woman. The The Lobster (2015) star says the superhero film was her favourite film of 2017.
Weisz, 47, shares that she was blown away by the Patty Jenkins film, which featured Gal Gadot in the lead role, and says she would love to work on something similar. However, she insists it isn’t the type of film she could make happen herself.
“I’m totally open to doing the big movies. Maybe I was more in the mood for smaller, more character-driven movies, but now I’m quite in the mood for a... But I just can’t make it happen. Someone has to offer it to me,” she says.
“And I can’t produce one of those. I wouldn’t know how to do that,” Weisz adds.
Asked if she’d like a movie like Wonder Woman, she says, “Yeah, definitely. It was good to see that a movie with a female character at the centre can make tons of money. We’re not some weird outlier group. We’re half the planet!”
Weisz, who is married to actor Daniel Craig and has son Henry, 11, with former partner, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, says Wonder Woman was the first time she had “really enjoyed” an action movie because the titular character and her alter ego Diana Prince resonated with her.
RACHEL WEISZ SAYS THAT THOUGH SHE DOESN’T THINK SHE WOULD BE ABLE TO PRODUCE A MOVIE LIKE WONDER WOMAN, SHE WOULD DEFINITELY LOVE TO BE A PART OF A SIMILAR PROJECT