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Rave reviews for ‘too beautiful’ Weisz
Written by admin on 6 Aug, 2009 | Archived under: Other Projects |
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British film actress Rachel Weisz, star of The Mummy and About a Boy, has received glowing reviews for her London stage performance as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, with the Daily Telegraph’s theatre critic Charles Spencer calling it “by some distance, the best Streetcar I have seen”. Weisz rises to the challenge of playing DuBois “magnificently”, says Spencer, who admits he had thought the Oscar-winning actress would “almost certainly fail” in the role of the fragile widow who leaves home to join her sister and brother-in-law in New Orleans. “She has had relatively little stage experience and surely, I reasoned, she was too young, and too beautiful, to play the now fading, hard-drinking and wildly promiscuous Southern belle on the edge of complete breakdown,” Spencer writes in his four-star review. Read full article.
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