Bond girl Gemma Arterton has set her sights on becoming the next Rachel Weisz – because her fellow Brit seems to have it all. The Quantum of Solace actress is on the cusp of Hollywood stardom after landing lead roles in upcoming blockbusters Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Clash of the Titans. And Arterton hopes she can enjoy a similar career to The Mummy actress, insisting Weisz balances family life and a movie career perfectly. She tells MSN.com, “I’d really like the type of career Rachel Weisz has. I have a lot of respect for her – brilliant, talented, intelligent, a witty sort of woman. “You know, she’ll do a rom-com (romantic comedy) – not that I ever want to do a rom-com – but then she’ll go off and do The Constant Gardener, have a family and live quite a normal life, it seems. I respect that.”

Actress Rachel Weisz has been voted the female star most British men want to marry. The Oscar-winner, who is engaged to movie maker Darren Aronofsky, was placed top of the list by U.K. men’s magazine Esquire. The 39 year old saw off competition from fellow Brits Keira Knightley, who was second in the poll, and Kate Winslet, who came third. And Weisz admits she’s stunned by the accolade, telling the magazine, ‘Oh my God! Really? That’s so funny. I’m marriable. But I’m not married! I was getting worried that the men didn’t like me any more, but your readers’ poll puts my mind at rest.”

Rachel Weisz and Jude Law are the toast of London’s West End again after winning the top prizes at the British capital’s only public-voted theatre awards. The pair walked away with trophies from the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards last month with Weisz winning Best Actress for her turn in A Streetcar Named Desire, while Law was honoured with the award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his leading role in Hamlet. And the two Brits have won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes from dedicated theatre website Whatsonstage.co.uk, which asks the theatre-going public to vote for their top performers and shows. The awards, which were announced on Sunday (February 14), were voted for by 46,000 people.

Prison thriller Cell 221 and Rachel Weisz’s historical drama Agora were the big winners at Spain’s Goya Awards on Sunday night (February 14). Cell 211 scooped a massive eight trophies at the ceremony in Madrid, including Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director for Daniel Monzon and Best Actor for Luis Tosar. Agora, which stars Weisz as a female philosophy professor in Roman Egypt, picked up seven prizes with nods for Best Special Effects, Wardrobe and Best Original Screenplay. Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was chosen as best European film.

Rachel Weisz says cuddling her son helps her deal with stress. The British actress — who raises Henry, 3, with fiance Darren Aranofsky — had some traumatic storylines to cover in her new movie The Lovely Bones and she says her family were the best antidote to a bad day filming. “When I was making The Lovely Bones I had the perfect way to de-stress after an emotionally difficult day. Henry my son was a little one-year-old bubby when we were shooting it, so having a little one to go home and cuddle every night and play with was the perfect way to de-stress. “You just forget any of the bad fictional things you have been thinking about all day Henry is so beautiful he takes your mind off anything.”

“I’m totally into stories that are about characters and what it is to be human, that’s what interests me,” said Rachel Weisz, who plays a mother whose daughter is abducted and murdered in The Lovely Bones. In Bones, she continued in a one-on-one interview at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, “My character is just a human who doesn’t cope too well under duress.” And for this Oscar winner, however intense a role may be, it’s just work. “As an actor you have to imagine all sorts of things,” the English actress said. As Abigail, “I imagined that I was a young woman in the 1970s. I imagined that I was American. Neither of those are bad things. You imagine beautiful things. You imagine ugly things. That’s my job.” Weisz, the mother of a 3-year-old with her partner Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), doesn’t worry about taking a role home or becoming depressed because of it. “I just don’t think in that way, that something is too dark or problematic to go to. I immerse myself in something, but I’ve learned to come out of it.” As a mother, that’s just being practical. “I can’t go home to my kid in a state of despair and tears. It’s a skill that you learn like one might learn to juggle. You learn to turn things on and off.” Even though Bones is the story of a girl’s rape and murder, told by the deceased victim Susie (Saoirse Ronan), Weisz also found “very beautiful, uplifting things about this film, and I knew that going in.” And even though she is skilled at turning emotions on and off, there was something she took away from the set. “You know what? The uplifting theme of the film (and the book), which to me is that life is a treasure and precious and a miracle, I guess that was the thing that made me feel that I want to go hug my son tighter when I get home.” Source: BostonHerald.com