Rachel Weisz, the 38-year-old Oscar winner engaged to director Darren Aronofsky, was in Cannes over the weekend promoting her new movie, Agora. At last night’s screening, she wore the wow-inducing Valentino dress pictured above.
But nothing can set tongues wagging like a good nude scene– or a pair of them– featuring one of the world’s best looking actresses…
Since we were unfortunately not flown over to France this year for free, we are forced to rely on other media reportage. Thankfully, the Daily Mail snagged an interview with Weisz, who spoke of her character, Hypatia, the 4th-and-5th-century sex maniac who enslaved lots of attractive young men but still somehow died a virgin.
Hypatia, who lived from c370-415, was a Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. She spent her life surrounded by students and slaves, all male.
‘But as far as we know she famously never had sex, she died a virgin’, Rachel explained.
…Max Minghella… plays Hypatia’s devoted slave, along with Oscar Isaac as one of her students. The relationship between the three creates a love triangle of sorts…
Rachel said the film also had parallels to how women fare today in some Middle Eastern countries.
‘Women are still treated as second class citizens, they are denied education in Afghanistan….’
She recalled questioning director Alejandro Amenabar why her character wasn’t kissed in the film. ‘I thought she’d get at least one,’ she said.
Rachel appears nude in two scenes in the film – one in which she emerges from a bath while her young slave, played by Max Minghella, attends to her with a towel.
Asked if a body double was used for the revealing scene she responded: ‘Absolutely not. It was all me, never even thought of using a double.
‘Although I was thinking about baby fat – but I think most of it had gone by the time I went before the cameras,’ she told the Daily Mail.
Too bad there’s no sex– but, then again, love scenes with Rachel Weisz have always been hotter without much graphic content. Check out this steamy, dialogue-free clip from Enemy at the Gates, one of our favorites:
Via the Daily Mail.
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