Rachel Weisz admits she is ‘obsessed’ with David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers

Rachel Weisz has revealed she was “obsessed” with David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, as she prepares to star in a bloody remake of the 1988 film.

The 53-year-old actress is a far cry from her usual type of girlfriend as a twin gynecologist surgeon who shares a (female) lover and ultimately suffers a fatal drug-induced collapse.

In the original, British actor Jeremy Irons played twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle, whom no one can tell apart.

The remake has been turned into a six-part series for Prime Video by writer Alice Birch, who also has credits on Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Succession.

Weisz, 53, who lives in New York with actor Daniel Craig and his family, told The Daily Mail’s Alison Boshoff that she is “obsessed” with Cronenberg’s film.

She brought the idea for a remake to Prime Video and is credited as a producer. Her characters, also named Elliot and Beverly, now work as surgeons in New York. At its heart though, it’s still about the relationship between the twins.

She said: ‘Beverly is altruistic, considerate, caring and kind. She wants to change the way women give birth.

‘Elliot is very, very different. She is not altruistic and she is pushing the boundaries of what is ethical.

Writer Birch has also worked on elements of the tragic death of Eva Rausing, wife of Tetra Pak heir Hans, whose body was discovered several months after her death in 2012 under the bedclothes in the couple’s mansion in London.

“They were very dark codependents,” Weisz said of the Rausings.

In the series, Rachel stars alongside American Horror Story’s Britne Olford, who plays Genevieve, and Poppy Liu, best known for her role in Better Call Saul, who plays Greta.

Also in the ensemble is Orange Is The New Black’s Michael Chernus as Tom, Zero Dark Thirty’s Jennifer Ehle as Rebecca, and The Deuce’s Emily Meade as Susan.

Rachel Weisz, who was spotted out and about in New York with her husband Daniel earlier this month, is also serving as an executive producer on the limited series, created, written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated writer-playwright Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession , The wonder).

Iconic: In the original, British actor Jeremy Irons played twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who no one can tell apart.

Anticipated: The remake became a six-part series for Prime Video from writer Alice Birch, who also has credits on Normal People and Sally Rooney’s Succession.

The trailer begins with the doors of a hospital opening and a doctor walking out, while we see Beverly and Elliot dressed in red.

One is sitting in her chair with one hand on her belly and her hair tied back, while the other is hunched over, hair flowing over her shoulders with blood all over her face.

The trailer, set to Blondie’s 1979 single Heart of Glass, shows them both sitting next to each other, while another shot shows them in more professional attire as they look at a newborn baby.

‘The erratic always starts small,’ says one of the sisters, which means, ‘the action or tendency to be erratic.’

As in the first shot, both sisters look identical, although one always has her hair down and the other always up.

The final shot shows one of the sisters on the bed as the other flopped down next to her.

Amazon first announced the project in August 2020, giving it a direct-to-series order, with production to begin in August 2021.

The original David Cronenberg film was adapted from Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s 1977 novel Twins, which was loosely based on the true story of twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus.

Both were found dead in July 1975 in separate rooms of Cyril’s Manhattan apartment aged just 45, with Stewart dying of an overdose of barbiturates and Cyril suspected of possibly taking his own life in a suicide pact after finding his brother. dead.