A new poster and trailer have been released for The Deep Blue Sea ahead of it’s forthcoming US release. The movie stars Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (Page Eight), Tom Hiddlestone  (War Horse) and Simon Russell-Beale (TV’s Spooks/MI5).

The movie revolves around Wiesz’s character who is the wife of a high court judge who, in a shocking move for 1950′s Britain, leaves her husband (Russell-Beale) to move in with a dashing young ex-RAF pilot (Hiddlestone), with whom she has fallen passionately in love. The film explores the nature of love and the lines drawn between love and passion.

The Deep Blue Sea is one of Britscene’s Ten British Movie’s To Look Forward To and will be released in the US sometime in December, there is no official date just yet.

SOURCE: Britscene

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Fernando Meirelles loves working with Rachel Weisz on movies because she is a great improviser.

Rachel Weisz questioned “every single word” of the script for ’360′.

The British actress stars alongside Jude Law and Sir Anthony Hopkins in the film about the inter-twining lives of people all over the world, and director Fernando Meirelles admitted he loves working with Rachel – who previously starred in his movie ‘The Constant Gardner’ – because she loves improvising in rehearsals.

Speaking at the European premiere of the film – which also opened the 55th London Film Festival – at the Odeon Cinema on Leicester Square last night, Fernando exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “I love to work with Rachel because she loves to improvise and I love to improvise too.

“We don’t improvise with the camera rolling, it’s more when we prepare, so she brings ideas, she brings lines. Every single word she thinks about and she questions, so she makes me think. I’m quite sure we are going to work together again.”

Fernando also confessed the stars of the film, which is set in locations including London, Vienna, Bratislava and Phoenix, did not get paid much for their participation, but wanted to take part because they “loved” the script.

He added: “Because we were only shooting five or six days with each actor, it’s easier for them to find a slot to shoot the film. And they’ve all done it because they liked the script, because they didn’t get very well paid to be honest. We all did it for love, not for the pay cheque, I can assure you that. But it’s great, when you have the whole crew involved because they want to shoot the film, not because they’re just making money it’s a different mood. It’s a wonderful experience.”

Other stars to walk the red carpet at the premiere included Jude, ‘Johnny English Reborn’ actress Gillian Anderson and ‘Thor’ star Tom Hiddleston.

Kate Winslet has joined forces with two other British actresses, Rachel Weisz and Emma Thompson, to form what she calls ‘The British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League’.

Kate – who, let’s not forget, has endured endless comments about her weight and appearance, and has already spoken out about being digitally altered in several magazine shoots – has vowed that she will never have cosmetic surgery, even going so far as to suggest that it is morally wrong.

Kate, 35, told the Daily Telegraph: “It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty. I will never give in.

“I am an actress, I don’t want to freeze the expressions on my face.”

Her friend, Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, 52, is also getting fed up with the pressure to look young.

“I’m not fiddling about with myself,” she says. “We’re in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60.”

And Rachel Weisz says: “People who look too perfect don’t look sexy or particularly beautiful.”

While we understand that actresses must feel tremendous pressure to conform to Hollywood ideals of beauty, and we applaud Kate, Emma and Rachel for taking a stand, we’re not convinced that their opinions will make much difference.

Just last week, Gwyneth Paltrow said that she couldn’t see a problem with having a post-baby boob job and Sky News anchor Kay Burley admitted to buying herself a 50th birthday facelift.

Besides, it’s easy for three beautiful actresses to say that cosmetic surgery is bad, when they look pretty much perfect as they are.

SOURCE: lifestyle.aol.co.uk

Actress Rachel Weisz almost missed out on her starring role in upcoming thriller The Whistleblower – she initially snubbed the part as a mum-to-be because she couldn’t cope with the harrowing plotline.

In the movie, Weisz plays real-life whistleblower and Bosnian peacekeeper Kathryn Bolkovac, who brings to light a child sex-slave scandal allegedly being covered up by the United Nations.

The actress was first offered the part in 2006, when she was expecting son Henry with her then-fiance, Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky – but the star wasn’t mentally or physically prepared to tackle the topic and rejected the job.

Appearing on U.S. breakfast show Today on Wednesday (27Jul11), she says, “I did read the script in 2006; I was pregnant with my son. It was too (much), I couldn’t cope with it at that moment.

“But the strange thing was I just never forgot about it. And about two years ago I called up the producer, who I knew, and I said, ‘Remember that script The Whistleblower? Does it still exist?’ And she said, ‘Yes,’ and so it kind of came back. It just stayed with me.”

And the Oscar-winning star is glad she stuck with her gut because the project has been especially rewarding: “I’m really excited for people to see it… because it’s based on the true story about an ordinary woman who did an extraordinary thing and I love stories like that.”

SOURCE: contactmusic.com

Rachel Weisz collaborated very closely with the director Terence Davies on The Deep Blue Sea.

Davies and his leading lady have taken the template of Terence Rattigan’s play about Hester Collyer, an unsatisfied wife who finds a man who can fulfil her physical desires, and turned it into a movie about a woman who learns to find the light.

‘Despite the period nature — it’s set in the early Fifties — Rachel wanted it to resonate as a contemporary story,’ said Sean O’Connor, who found the project and co-produced it.

‘It was rare for a woman of Hester’s stature, at that time, to leave her husband and seek a divorce,’ added Kate Ogborn, who also produced the project, which also stars Simon Russell Beale as Hester’s cuckolded husband and Tom Hiddleston as Freddie, the former RAF pilot who can’t love Hester because his head is still stuck in the Battle of Britain. But Freddie can give Hester the sexual passion she craves.

The film stands on its own and doesn’t just replicate Rattigan’s play. It gives us a glimpse of what it is Hester wants. During the picture’s sensual love scene, she stretches across the bed and licks Freddie’s back. It’s not an explicit moment; rather, it’s a delicate one. It’s the first love scene Davies has directed on screen.

The performances are sublime, but what’s also breathtaking is the way he paints a portrait of post-war Britain. The pub sing-alongs remind us of a time when TV talent shows weren’t the national pastime.

And the film also reminds us how exciting it is to see Rachel Weisz dominating the big screen again.

Artificial Eye plans to release The Deep Blue Sea this autumn, and there are rumours that the Venice, Toronto and London film festivals are all keen to unveil it

SOURCE: Daily Mail