“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