Rachel Weisz brings her reimagining of 'Dead Ringers' to TV — and turns the twin-gynecologist thriller into something far more disturbing.
years earlier, had also left an impression on the star. She called Birch while the writer was on a family holiday in Italy. “She had to climb on to a roof to get cell reception,” Weisz says, “so there was an element of danger to our collaboration from the very start.”
They knew that someone would come between the two dysfunctional twins, and as in the original, it would be an actress; both Weisz and Birch admired Geneviève Bujold’s performance as the romantic interest of Jeremy Irons’ brothers in the movie so much that they named the psychologically stable girlfriend, played by Britne Oldford, “Genevieve.” They talked loosely about some of the supporting characters as well, including Greta, the sisters’ “maid” with a mysterious agenda of her own.
By the time the star stepped onto a soundstage for the first time, “I had an Elliot and a Beverly… somewhere in there. [] I couldn’t tell you where. But they were there, and I could access them at will. They were such radically different people. And their relationship to pleasure was so unique. Elliot wants it, even if she gets easily bored. Beverly is scared by it. That helped.”
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