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Rachel Weisz At Her Finest Rachel Weisz At Her FinestBy MARK SEAL BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK ABRAHAMS “It made me just want to do comedies,” says Rachel Weisz of the recent birth of her first child, a son, the implications of which, considering the actress’ extremely dramatic career, is surprising. But this being the season of goodness and grace, it’s the perfect metaphor: a move from darkness to light, from femme fatale to funny lady.Therein lies a tale.The raven-haired, porcelain-skinned actress gained fame, of course, for her talent at playing difficult women who revel in making mincemeat of men. First, there was her Broadway role as the conniving art student who dupes her lover in the play and movie The Shape of Things. Then, she won a best supporting actress Oscar for the studentturned-activist whose murder sends her soft-spoken, complacent husband spiraling toward doom in The Constant Gardener.But motherhood sparks major life changes. For Weisz (pronounced Vice), who became a new mother with the arrival of Henry Chance Aronofsky in 2006, she says it made her want to “lighten up.”“I was being offered all of these dramas, and I was like, ‘No, no, no. I want to do comedy,’” she says, calling from New York, having just put the baby to bed. “I wanted to ease back into work. I wanted to try something different than I’d ever done before.”Mission accomplished. Fred Claus is a comedy in which she plays the girlfriend of Santa’s reprobate brother, a repo man who steals what he repossesses, played by Vince Vaughn. Then, in February, she’ll star in Definitely, Maybe, in which a political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter. Weisz came from England to America on the wings of a dark character named Evelyn, who appears one day at a museum, carrying a can of spray paint. Encountering a young security guard (Paul Rudd in the Broadway production), she seduces him while subjecting him to a drastic makeover that eventually makes a mockery of his life.“Pretty scary chick, huh?” Weisz asks.The role was a long way from what she describes as a happy childhood in Hampstead, North London, where she grew up with one sister, Minnie, now an artist. Her Austrian mother, Ruth, was a teacher turned psychotherapist; father, George, was “an industrialist” who actually “manufactured what he invented; not in the garden shed.” When asked to describe her childhood, she says, “I loved climbing trees. We had a great tree in the garden and I used to climb it.”Weisz learned lessons that would serve her well from her Hungarian grandmother, Kato, who was “very, very petite, very elegant, very chic, on a small budget,” she says. “She always had a manicure and heels. I’m not nearly as groomed as she was. She used to teach us how to eat properly. She could not stand it if we ever ate anything with our hands. We used to go to her house every Sunday. I remember it got a little out of control because we were eating olives, and she tried to make us eat olives with a knife and fork.”
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