In love with the Spanish cinema she worked with Alejandro Amenabar in Agora. We had the opportunity to sit with her in New York were we talked about her passion for acting and juggling her life
In love with the Spanish cinema she worked with Alejandro Amenabar in Agora. We had the opportunity to sit with her in New York were we talked about her passion for acting and juggling her life
She's mesmerizingly beautiful; she walks across the room looking immaculately cool in a little red dress and heels. Since Rachel Weisz won her Oscar for The Constant Gardener she is being in some very great movies that very few people have seen: The Whistleblower, and The Deep Blue Sea. . But that's likely to change this year, when she appears in two major studio releases: The Bourne Legacy and Oz: The Great and Powerful. In love with the Spanish cinema she worked with Alejandro Amenabar in Agora. We had the opportunity to sit with her in New York were we talked about her passion for acting and juggling her life
Q: Do you speak Spanish?
A: Little, almost nothing. I can say hello and thanks
Q: Have you read Spanish authors?
A: Yes. I’m a fan of Lorca. I read all his books. I like to read theater and the plays that Lorca wrote have a unique texture, intensity. I love Lorca dramas. He is my favorite Spanish author
Q: Can you talk a little about your partnership with Fernando Meirelles?
A: I would do anything for Fernando if he asked me cause he’s one of my favorite people in the world and I had such a good experience with him on that film and that’s a very small part it only took me four or five days to film , it’s a big film and I did it to work with him .
Q: What kind of role would you like to play that you haven’t done yet?
A: So many I don’t know where to begin. I would like to do new writing something I haven’t yet read so I’m waiting for someone to write a really great new play.
Q: Are you fearless as an actress?
A: Yeah, I am fearless, but to be fearless about being emotional there’s not a big downside to it, I mean there’s a downside to falling off a bike going at high speed. It’s like a different thing.
Q: Can we talk about Burberry, what is the relationship with them, what do you do for them?
A: I really like Burberry, it’s a really old, distinguished jewelry house, I think it’s like 150 years making jewelry, and they are master jewelry makers, I love their stuff from the 50s and 60s which they are re-releasing.
Q: So how did this happen? Did you approach them, they approach you?
A: They approached me.
Q: What do you have to do for them?
A: I just did a photoshoot for them, which will be out soon, and is a really beautiful campaign.
Q: I saw something when I was in Rome a couple of weeks ago, was that it?
A: It was for Bulgari, but for their fragrance.
Q: Do you like to cook?
A: I have one signature dish which is a Shrimp Stir Fry, with chilis and garlic and cilantro, and rice noodles.
Q: Do you have great survival instincts?
A: I hope so, they’ve never really been put to the test in my little life, no bad guys have come after me, touch wood.
Q: Where is home now?
A: I live in New York. I have a place in London but my son is going to school in New York, so that’s where I’m living.
Q: But what feels like home, being an actress from England, your heart is in England probably and your work is in America. Am I right?
A: Well, I worked in two film projects in England last year, so I don’t know, I’m always visiting England, so I have family and friends there and my home is in New York .
Q: And pub life and football?
A: I’m not really a football person, pubs, yeah, I miss the parks actually, the little parks in London, the Regents Park and Hyde Park is a really beautiful park.
Q: Is there a difference in attitude when you walk the streets of New York or the streets in London or LA?
A: Well people don’t walk very much in Los Angeles, (laughter) but yeah, it’s even different, New York, Manhattan is very tense.
Q: As an artist you have to find balance in life?
A: how do you know I’m balanced? It’s a struggle to be a mother. But for every single working mother in the world it's complicated and difficult. I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
Q: What moves you to go to work?
A: I would say passion
Q: Do you still keep the Oscar in your bathroom?
A: I don’t think it’s in the bathroom anymore but it’s my apartment yeah
Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
A: I tried not to feel guilty about pleasure so my pleasure would I like chocolate but for me the guilty pleasure would be whip cream I like those cakes mil phooey and cream mmm love that
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