On location in Europe with her baby on board

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

She sounds like any other working mother who takes her Oscar-winning self around the globe with her toddler to film movies.

Rachel Weisz — mom to toddler Henry Chance Aronofsky — says that making “The Brothers Bloom” wasn’t just a film experience for her.

It was also a major life moment.

“We filmed in Prague and Romania like a traveling circus moving from country to country,” Weisz says. “My son was with me and he was tiny. Just nine months. One day we woke up and he decided to learn to walk in Belgrade.”

That was an expensive long-distance call home to Dad.

“He’s a seasoned travelers now with international memories in his baby book,” Weisz says with a laugh.

How is it to roam Europe with someone entering his terrible twos? “It was definitely ambitious,” Weisz says. “But you know what? My baby is a seasoned traveler now. Anyway, I think kids are fine as long as their moms or dads are there.”

The 36-year-old lives in New York City with director Darren Aronofsky when she’s not filming movies. “The Brothers Bloom,” now in its opening weekend, stars Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as the best con men in the world. They swindle millionaires with complex scenarios. Now they have one last job, which is showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress love, romance and adventure … for a price.

Weisz plays poor little rich girl Penelope, who has been raised in an isolated way, meets the Brothers Bloom and falls in love. Continue Reading.