The Constant Gardener actress Rachel Weisz is set to star in an independently produced political drama based on true story. Whistleblower, based on the story of Kathryn Bolkovac who traveled to Bosnia in 1999 as a U.N. peacekeeper, will follow the trial of a female cop from Nebraska who serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and exposes a United Nations cover-up of a sex trafficking scandal, according to Variety. Larysa Kondracki, who will make her directorial debut in the film, co-wrote the script with Ellis Kirwin. Filming will be held in Budapest.

Darting through the Sahara with a preserved corpse. Murdered at a crossroads in Kenya. Kicking ass alongside conmen brothers and their explosive sidekick in Prague. The edgy and earthy Rachel Weisz hasn’t exactly been easy to track (or pin) down. But with a young son at home, an Oscar on her mantel and three new movies in the can, the daring and elusive actress takes a minute to consider her illustrious career, all the while trying to make sense of the condom shorts on display at Manhattan’s New Museum.
Like most major stars, Rachel Weisz understands that scandal shines brighter than Academy Award polish, and that tabloid gossips would kill to replace the Narciso Rodriguez gowns in her closet with skeletons. But there are no addictions in her past. There are no tapes documenting torrid affairs with boldface, bald-headed studio executives. One cannot even recall a single of her awards-show acceptance speeches colored by too much red wine. Weisz can’t be blamed, then, for wanting to shake things up. “Believe me,” she says. “I get it. I’m living with a nice man, and I have a nice job and a happy family, blah, blah, blah… ”
Far from Hollywood, a diorama of desperation and loaner implants, Weisz has created a home in Manhattan’s East Village with her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky, the director of fantastically unconventional fare such as Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and this year’s The Wrestler. With their 2-year-old son, Henry (Weisz wrote one of her two university theses on the ghost stories of Henry James), they live in a townhouse amid the tattooed punks and NYU co-eds who occupy the tattered streets near St. Mark’s Place. Weisz often dines at Café Mogador, a Moroccan restaurant (where she also conducts the majority of her interviews). On rare nights out, she stops in at Zablozki’s in Brooklyn, the no-fuss beer den owned by Aronofsky’s best friend, Ari Zablozki, and Angel’s Share, a lounge above St. Mark’s Bookshop that serves “the best lychee cocktails in the world.” Read full article.

BlackBook covergirl Rachel Weisz is definitely in bloom for our May issue, but this isn’t the first time we’ve enjoyed her charms. She was also on the cover for Spring-Summer 2003, meaning that she’s joined our exclusive club of double cover subjects. That club includes the likes of Tilda Swinton (2005 Fall Fashion and September 2008), Christina Ricci (May 2008 and Winter 2001-2002) Benicio Del Toro (Winter 2000-2001 and Winter 2004), Cate Blanchett (October-November 2003 and October-November 2007), and Naomi Watts (Fall 2004 and December-January 2007). Take a trip down memory lane with our 2003 interview with Rachel Weisz.
Rachel Weisz is in a hurry. It is 5:15 on an afternoon that started sunny and is now overcast, and she is walking towards a Starbucks in uptown Manhattan. In 45 minutes, she will appear at a charity event with Alan Cumming to “read a bit of Shakespeare.”
Weisz, whose celebrity is largely on her comic turn in the Mummy movies, is a beautiful, edgy actress whose resume is spotted with false starts, but who is now on the verge of omnipresence. It is ironic that, after a decade of serious, thoughtful work, she became famous with a piece of childish populism, but it is what Rachel did next that makes her interesting. First came her sultry intervention as a single mother, catching Hugh Grant’s jaded eye in About a Boy. Coming soon are Confidence, a crime thriller with Dustin Hoffman and Ed Burns; Envy, a comedy with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Christopher Walken; Marlowe, with Jude Law; and Runaway Jury, again with Hoffman, John Cusack and Gene Hackman. Most interestingly, there is The Shape of Things, in which she reprises her role from Neil LaBute’s stage play about the tangled spaghetti of relationships. Weisz plays Evelyn, an art student who entrances Adam (Paul Rudd). Eve tempts Adam, and he begins to change, raising a number of questions about the compromises people make. It is also about art: Evelyn, like the English artist Tracey Emin — whose work includes her unmade bed — trades in autobiography. In this kind of art, it is hard to know where the work ends and life begins. Read full article.

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