Rachel Weisz’s new film, Disobedience, is set a few stops up the Northern Line from Hendon, in North London, where she grew up
Rachel Weisz’s new film, Disobedience, is set a few stops up the Northern Line from where she grew up.
The picture, adapted from Naomi Alderman’s 2006 debut novel, is based in the closed-off Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon, North London.
Weisz plays Ronit, a woman who disentangled herself from the suffocating embrace of her strict upbringing to make her own choices in New York, where she has become conversant in the art of the wisecrack.
When her father, a respected rabbi, dies she returns to the streets of her childhood and rekindles a forbidden relationship with Esti (Rachel McAdams) who’s now married to her father’s successor Dovid (Alessandro Nivola).
Weisz, who is also a producer of the film directed by Sebastian Lelio, told me she really wanted to tell a story where she played opposite a woman.
‘I love the fact that it’s contemporary,’ she noted, yet it’s set in a world Ronit calls ‘medieval’.
‘It’s just a few stops up the Northern Line from where I grew up — and people are living in a community where to be gay is taboo,’ Weisz said. ‘You cannot stay in that community and be a gay man or a gay woman.
‘I thought the juxtaposition of modernity and this old, deeply traditional world would create a very interesting drama.’
Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz rekindle a forbidden gay relationship in a close-knit Jewish community
It’s a gripping picture that is still respectful of the beliefs and spirituality of a community ‘where neighbours will help you out’.
‘But if you’re not heterosexual, you can’t be there,’ Weisz added.
She said it’s an ‘impossible conundrum’ for Esti: a teacher who wants both. ‘She wants to be who she really is, and she wants her faith. But you can’t have both there,’ she told me over the telephone from Manhattan, where she lives with husband Daniel Craig and their baby daughter.
The actress praised director Lelio’s ‘female gaze’. She said she couldn’t believe ‘that a straight man’ had directed the South American film Gloria (which Lelio also wrote, with Gonzalo Maza). The title character was a middle-aged woman ‘who would normally play the granny or the auntie who has five lines’.
Weisz, who is also a producer of the film directed by Sebastian Lelio, clutches a camera on the set of DIsobedience
It was Lelio who chose to shoot the intimate moments between Ronit and Esti discreetly. ‘Sebastian wanted the scene to be focused on their faces. Besides being very romantic and emotional and passionate, it gives Esti the courage to come out,’ Weisz said.
‘Sebastian’s choice means the audience have to imagine what’s happening outside of the frame. To me, it’s more erotic when you have to imagine it.’
It’s a beautifully realised original movie with three sublime performances at the heart. Weisz produced the film through her own production company and has others in the pipeline.
Weisz, McAdams and Nivola all scored acting nominations in the British Independent Film Awards, which are being held in London on Sunday.
In the best actress category, Weisz is up against Gemma Arterton (for Escape), Jessie Buckley (Beast), Olivia Colman (The Favourite) and Maxine Peake (Funny Cow).
She’s also nominated in the supporting actress section for her scalding portrait of Lady Sarah Churchill in The Favourite — co-star Emma Stone is recognised, too, as is McAdams, for Disobedience.
Weisz is also nominated in the supporting actress section for her scalding portrait of Lady Sarah Churchill in The Favourite (pictured)
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Weisz) governs the country in her stead
In all, Weisz has three BIFA nominations (the third is for Best Picture): a record for an actor.
She adored making director Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, in which she plays confidante to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne, despite knowing nothing about Churchill, nor the monarch, beforehand.
‘I knew about Queen Anne houses, and furniture — long windows! — and that’s about it,’ Weisz admitted.
The film, which has been generating a lot of awards season heat, opens here on New Year’s Day.
Everything’s just shipshape for birthday boy Charlie
Charlie Stemp, who was plucked from the chorus line by Cameron Mackintosh and made a leading man in musicals, has landed his first play.
Bill Kenwright is producing a touring production of Tom Stoppard’s 1984 comedy Rough Crossing.
Charlie Stemp, who was plucked from the chorus line by Cameron Mackintosh, has landed his first play
Kenwright told me he rang Rachel Kavanaugh, the play’s director, and said he wanted someone ‘with a twinkle in their eye’ but also the comic physicality of a Norman Wisdom or Lee Evans, for the part of a ship’s steward known as Dvornichek.
Kavanaugh recommended Stemp, whom she had directed in Mackintosh’s Chichester Festival Theatre and West End production of Half A Sixpence.
Kenwright said: ‘It was an inspired choice. We had to run it by Tom Stoppard, and he’s very pleased with the casting of Charlie. He’s the nicest boy.’
Stemp, who’s currently rehearsing the Palladium panto Snow White, will join Issy van Randwyck, Simon Dutton and Matthew Cottle in Rough Crossing, which begins a ten-date tour at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, from January 30.
The actor told me he’s thrilled but nervous about the new job because ‘I’ve never done a play before — but it’s something I’ve wanted to do’.
‘There’s some dancing to be done,’ he said, cheerfully. And the comedy appealed to him, too.
The Snow White panto will help sharpen his comic timing for the Stoppard play. Plus he worked with funny lady Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! in New York, which won’t hurt.
Stemp, who turns 25 today, has a busy 2019. As this page reported, he will join Zizi Strallen in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward in the autumn.
Robbie on pointe to be top cat
Director Tom Hooper has turned to the ballet world to cast a major meow of a part in the Cats film, which goes before the cameras in ten days’ time.
He and producers at Working Title have picked American ballet star Robbie Fairchild to take on the part of senior tabby Munkustrap.
Fairchild was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet before he left to pursue other projects and broaden his horizons.
He starred in An American In Paris on Broadway — and also at London’s Dominion Theatre — and has appeared in several musical concerts in the U.S.
Justin Peck, left, and Robert Fairchild of New York City Ballet performing at the premiere of The Times Are Racing by Justin Peck
Director Hooper has also plucked Royal Ballet star Francesca Hayward from her Covent Garden base.
She has been rehearsing with other Cats cast members Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, James Corden and Rebel Wilson.
Taylor Swift is due to arrive in the UK soon to prepare for her part in the film.
Fairchild will take on a lot of dancing in the movie. He’s a top cat: number two in the hierarchy behind Old Deuteronomy — who, in a spot of gender-swap casting, will be played by Judi Dench (as we revealed).
One of Munkustrap’s tasks is to lead Old D into the spotlight, and to make sure she’s feelin’ good.
The film will feature the score Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote for the original 1981 London stage show, which was based on T.S. Eliot’s collection of poems, Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats.
Director Hooper told me that he and screenwriter Lee Hall have ‘opened out’ the story, which will be shot at Leavesden Studios, near Watford, Herts.
Universal will release the picture in December 2019.
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Rachel Weisz’s new film, Disobedience, is set a few stops up the Northern Line from Hendon, in North London, where she grew up
Rachel Weisz’s new film, Disobedience, is set a few stops up the Northern Line from where she grew up.
The picture, adapted from Naomi Alderman’s 2006 debut novel, ...
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