Rachel Weisz, the British actress talks about her as a “dreamer”, a type of kid you’d find climbing trees and sitting in them for hours, making up stories.
Star of The Lovely Bones feels acting was what she wanted to do. Acting is something that keep her sane, “If I didn’t act, I’d be a nutcase. Some people have to do it. They have a lot of emotion they have to get out.”
“As an actor, it’s your job to dream up things, to make-believe a lot. It wasn’t a fun thing to imagine, but it’s something that’s happened to parents, so it can happen – it’s a possibility,” she explains well about acting.
Engaged with Darren Aronofsky, the director behind Requiem For a Dream and The Wrestler, directed Weisz in The Fountain, she said,
“I love it, to see someone be really good at something is sexy. It’s lovely to see how talented he is at work.”
How can separate the personal and the professional.
“He was so busy when he was at work, he only had time to be the director,:” she says. “He didn’t have time to be my boyfriend.”
The couple’s son, Henry Chance, was born the same year she won Academy Award.
“My son was born in 2006, so it must have been then,” she says with a laugh. “It was bizarre, because I was seven months pregnant, so the whole experience was bonkers. (Winning is) surreal, it’s as if it isn’t really happening to you… it’s very out of body. Anyway, it takes a while for it to sink in. Ask me in another decade.”
And The Mummy star thinks it’s impossible to be able to describe the deepest feeling for being mom.
“People tell you about motherhood and you think, yeah, yeah, whatever. But it’s something you have to experience for yourself to know what it is. It’s impossible to talk about it in any sensible way without sounding ridiculous. It’s a tremendous experience.”
And really surprising when she is not allow her son to follow her step , “I hope he’s not an actor – I’d dissuade him as hard as I could,” she says.
“I say to people, ‘If there’s anything else you can think of doing, you should that,’ purely because the success level is so low. It’s very hard. The odds are so against you.”
“His dad brought him in after a matinee [of her recent play A Streetcar Named Desire] to watch the curtain call and he figured out bowing and getting claps,” she says. “So, yesterday, he put on his policeman’s outfit and bowed. That was the show.”
She says the motherhood has changed her life and her family is her “greatest joy,” but to have more children she doubts, “I don’t know. Not right now.”
The Lovely Bones is in cinemas December 26.
