Hollywood actress Rachel Weisz has no problems about getting older, because she feels she is more confident and happy with herself. The 39-year-old actress isn’t nervous about hitting the milestone age next March because as she has gotten older, her confidence has grown. “I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting,” she said. Weisz who has a three-year-old son, Henry, with her filmmaker fiance Darren Aronofsk, believes her twenties were the worst decade of her life, because she was struggling to make it as an actress and find her identity. “Being 20 is excruciating, at least it was for me. In your thirties you get more confident about who you are and that is a relief, so imagine what the forties will be like,” she said.

Actress Rachel Weisz dished on her desire to play a lesbian character in a recent issue of Vanity Fair Español. The media has named her one of the most desirable actresses among lesbians. When asked now she felt about this honor, Weisz replied, “It’s fantastic, don’t you think? I love being a lesbian icon!” Weisz expressed her aspiration to play the role of a lesbian in a female version of Brokeback Mountain, “something like Ang Lee did, with a history of women.” Weisz is rumored to be a front-runner along side Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox and Charlize Theron for the coveted role of Catwoman. Jennifer’s Body and Girlfight director Karyn Kusama is rumored to be working on a project that she has co-written and has revealed that Weisz is attached to the horror flick. The yet unnamed script is a “psychological horror in the David Cronenberg tradition.” Weisz won the Oscar for best supporting actress for the 2005 film The Constant Gardner. Thanks to SheWired.com!

The director of Jennifer’s Body has revealed that Rachel Weisz will be starring in her next film. Karyn Kusama told io9 that she is planning to make a “psychological horror”. She said: “There’s a screenplay I wrote a while ago with a partner that has a sort of element of horror, although I would call it a psychological horror in the Cronenberg tradition, that I’m trying to get made. “It definitely does fall into sort of a body horror movie that deals very, very specifically with our concept of gender.” Kusama concluded: “I can’t really talk to you specifically about it other than to say that Rachel Weisz is attached to the film.”

Paramount Pictures has given Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated adaptation The Lovely Bones a limited release on December 11th, with it opening wider on Christmas day. Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, the film centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family, and her killer, from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan. Thanks to MovieWeb.com!

Paris Hilton is the latest international celebrity to donate a designer handbag to the second annual Handbag Amnesty, a partnership between handbag.com, the home of fashion, beauty, hair and celebrity and Cancer Research UK. Handbag Amnesty 2009, part of handbag.com’s dedicated Handbag Month, will take place throughout September, culminating in an exclusive handbag.com celebrity handbag auction from 2nd – 11th October, to tie in with breast cancer awareness month. Paris Hilton has joined other A-listers including Rachel Weisz, Rachel Bilson, Heidi Klum, Scarlett Johansson, Peaches Geldof and Alesha Dixon, all of whom have given up a favourite handbag from their personal collection. Even Alexander McQueen has donated. All profits will go to Cancer Research UK, the largest single funder of breast cancer research in the UK, having spent £44million on groundbreaking research last year alone. Handbag Amnesty 2009 isn’t just about celebrity donations. Members of the public are also being asked to join in the fundraising by simply taking any unwanted handbag to their local Cancer Research UK shop. Handbags are one of the most popular items in Cancer Research UK charity shops across the country and sell like hot-cakes. Read full article.

Check out these new movie stills from Rachel’s upcoming movie Agora. In this movie Rachel stars alongside Max Minghella, Rupert Evans, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale. It was directed by Alejandro Amenábar. Agora will be at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and it will be released to theaters on December 18, 2009.