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London, November 28 (ANI): Rachel Weisz has joined the growing number of people in Britain asking for tighter privacy laws. 

At the moment there is no specific privacy law in England and Wales. However, people in the public eye have increasingly used the Human Rights Act – in particular Article Eight, outlining the ‘right to private and family life’ – to defend their privacy.

The Mummy actress said that although she “never had the direct experience of being terrorised by the press”, she was in favour of a privacy law. 

“It seems there should be some [privacy] law in place to stop that happening, that’s my knee-jerk reaction,” the Telegraph quoted Weisz as saying on BBC 1′s The Andrew Marr Show.

 ”What a celebrity is up to is very interesting to the public, but it’s not of public interest, is it?” she said.

 In the wake of the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, Britain had recently set up the Leveson Inquiry into culture, practice and ethics of the press.

 Those who have given evidence to the inquiry so far include actor Hugh Grant, actress Sienna Miller, author JK Rowling and comedian Steve Coogan. All of them have complained about being pursued by the press

Wiesz said that she found Hugh Grant’s campaign to limit press intrusion ‘impressive’. (ANI)

SOURCE: newstrackindia.com

Rachel Weisz has voiced her thoughts on the issue of privacy law in the UK.

Although Weisz admitted that she has “never had the direct experience of being terrorised by the press”, she still supports a stricter privacy law.

“What a celebrity is up to is very interesting to the public, but it’s not of public interest, is it?” the Deep Blue Sea actress said on the BBC One programme The Andrew Marr Show.

She added: “I don’t think it’s important for people to know about what’s in the rubbish bins. It seems there should be some [privacy] law in place to stop that happening, that’s my knee-jerk reaction.”

Weisz also praised Hugh Grant‘s efforts to call for action in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.

In April, Grant, who is a member of the Hacked Off campaign group, carried out his own investigation by bugging a conversation with an ex-News of the World journalist, after he suspected his phone messages had been intercepted by a private investigator.

Earlier this month, former Formula One boss Max Mosley won his legal action against News of the World for violating his privacy.

Comedian Steve Coogan recently claimed that reporters searched for details about his private life by digging through his rubbish bins.

SOURCE: digitalspy.co.uk

From the very beginning, the film DREAM HOUSE sounded like bad idea.  Just the very idea of another run of the mill haunted house thriller was enough to turn off most audiences, but I’m sure people were hoping that the superb cast would take it to another level.  But not even the star-studded trio of Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts could save this film from box office failure.  But I’m sure Universal is hoping the film will fare better when it hits Blu-ray on January 31st.  Truth be told, I didn’t catch this one in theaters and I’m at least a little curious about it since director Jim Sheridan has done some quality films.

Special features on the disc include four behind-the-scenes featurettes: Burning Down The House, The Dream Cast, Building The Dream House and A Look Inside.  The release will come in a Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Ultra-violet set.

Rachel Weisz doesn’t like admitting she got “expelled” from school as it makes her mother “very upset”.

The British actress was a confident and opinionated youngster. She often caused trouble at school due to her inquisitive personality, although she doesn’t like to bring it up in front of her parents.

“I’m not at all certain about the origins of my brazen personality. My father was an inventor – a nutty professor type. I had a chemistry set in the shed, and I liked to mix things up. I wanted to discover something important. I always felt a bit like a misfit,” she explained in an interview with Psychologies magazine.

“I was a tomboy. I also had a problem with authority. If a teacher told me to stop doing something, I didn’t see why I should listen. So I was politely asked to leave one school when I was 14. Please don’t say I was expelled. It will get my mother very upset. I was ‘asked to leave’, that’s the official line.”

Rachel insists she always had a rebellious streak. The stunning star caused mischief throughout her childhood.

“I was always considered the rebellious one and even at boarding school I connected with a similarly social agitator type,” she revealed.

“We were assigned to a separate dormitory so we wouldn’t contaminate the other girls with our radical ideology.”

SOURCE: Film-News.co.uk

Weisz to play part of Lomax’s wife
Published on Tuesday 20 December 2011 09:00

OSCAR-winning actress Rachel Weisz will join Colin Firth in the tale of a Berwick-based former prisoner of war whose wife helps him confront and overcome a deep hatred for his Japanese captors.

Filming for ‘The Railway Man’ will begin in February in the UK, Australia and Thailand, with Firth playing the part of Eric Lomax – and Weisz as his wife, Patti.

Patti cooked lunch when she and Eric, now 92, had a visit to their Berwick home earlier this year from Firth, who was keen to meet the author of the best-selling book chronicling the horrors of the Japanese camps during the Second World War.

Patricia Wallace, better known as Patti, became Lomax’s second wife in 1983. She encouraged him to confront his fears and hatred, and to that end she wrote to the man her husband held responsible for his torture.

During World War II, Lomax, a second lieutenant in the Royal Corp of Signals, was captured by Japanese forces in Singapore and eventually packed off to a camp in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

There, he joined tens of thousands of other PoWs working on the Burma-Siam death railway and the infamous bridge over the River Kwai.

Lomax was beaten to a pulp at the camp along with fellow prisoners discovered in possession of a radio. His friends, Captain Jack Hawley and Lieutenant Stanley Armitage, did not survive and their bodies were dumped in a camp latrine.

Decades later, Lomax couldn’t get over the torture and humiliation he had witnessed and suffered in the prisoners camp.

But thanks to Patti, Lomax found the moral support he needed to overcome the post-traumatic stress and to confront his fears and hatred.

Patti handed a letter to Nagase Takeshi, the Japanese officer who tortured Lomax, and asked him to meet her husband so he could be forgiven. After Nagase Takeshi and Lomax met beside the Kwai river, Lomax forgave the Japanese, and the two become blood brothers.

Just four years ago there was an amazing reconciliation between Lomax and the son of the murderer of two of his friends. The extraordinary event took place in Lomax’s home in Berwick when Osamu Komai, then 70, travelled from Japan to apologise for the enormous suffering caused by his father Captain Matsuo Komai, who was hanged as a war criminal after the Second World War.

After the war, it was Lomax’s evidence that helped condemn Komai, but although one of his great enemies was dead he continued to suffer.

I won’t be home at all during that time, and while I will have my laptop with me… I’ll only have access to a slowish Internet connection. So I will handle site maintenance stuff such as script updates and server crises (if any) as normal. But I won’t have most of my files and other resources (they’re on external hard drives) so everything else, like screencaps/screencapping, will have to wait until I’m back home again.