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Comments (0)Brains, body, beauty and a streak of independence. Don’t hate us for loving Rachel Weisz.
“My favorite genre of movie—if you could call it a genre, because there’s not so many of them out there—would be the ordinary woman doing the extraordinary thing, the David vs. Goliath-style fighting, one lone woman fighting injustice,” says the Oscar-winning Brit actress. “And I love it, I love that kind of thriller, the ordinary person who, because of their character, it’s their character that leads them. As an actor, that’s a kind of gift.”
Weisz’s latest offering is “The Whistleblower,” a true life post-Bosnian civil war corruption drama. She plays Kathryn Bolkovac, a police officer hired by a military contractor to work for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
“It’s her character that leads her to what she did, as she’s unraveling this cobweb of lies and corporate corruption, the State Department covering for the corporation, covering for the private contractor, covering for the U.N., she’s unraveling this web because it’s her job,” Weisz says. “And if you ask Kathy why she did what she did, she didn’t think she was saving the world or going to get a movie made about her, she literally said, `I was doing my job, I was investigating crime.’ And she didn’t think she was doing anything special.
“I just couldn’t get [the role] out of my mind, because there are just not many roles like that out there, if any.”