While playing twins in a remake of the thriller “Dead Ringers,” Oscar winner Rachel Weisz delivered what co-star Jennifer Ehle calls a “master class” in acting.
“To watch Rachel work on one character and then transform into another was really extraordinary,” Ehle says. “It would change while we were filming. It was just so fascinating.”
People are also reading… Poppy Liu, who plays an assistant to the Mantles, was particularly fascinated with the series’ medical themes. A practicing doula, Liu says “Dead Ringers” shows “how much the medical system fails us.” Too often, “it’s based off an industrial factory mentality where people are like products – you want them in and out as fast as possible. It’s based on efficiency. It’s based on cutting costs. What people actually need is a positive experience.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio There, co-star Emily Meade says, she and others got to see how Weisz played the two characters. “The scene took three days, but it was pretty entertaining and fascinating to watch. Rachel would go back and forth and we had so many chances to do it because we were doing it with two characters.”
“It does a really good job of painting all the layers of without being too preachy or melodramatic,” Meade says. “It gives you this tableau of what we’re working with.” She was also taken with Weisz’s ability to walk so many tightropes in one story. “When they’re pretending to be each other, it’s particularly fun,” Liu says.
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