Rachel Weisz, the British actress, has added her voice to calls for tighter privacy laws.
Asked about her views on The Andrew Marr Show, she said her “knee-jerk reaction” was that “there should be some law in place”.
Weisz, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her performance in The Constant Gardener, said she had not personally experienced much press intrusion.
Despite being one of Britain’s highest paid actresses, Weisz does not have as high a profile in the UK as others such as Sienna Miller or Kate Winslet.
She has not been asked to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into culture, practice and ethics of the press, set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World.
She told Marr on the BBC1 programme: “What a celebrity is up to is very interesting to the public, but it’s not of public interest, is it? Read the rest at the Telegraph

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An extensive selection of art forms will be exhibited, from an oil painting by Ishbel Myerscough to photographic portraits by Sarah Dunn and Elisabeth Hoff. Comments from the actresses relating to their respective careers will be displayed alongside artworks.

“I remember wanting to become an actress since about five years old,” Helena Bonham Carter’s caption reads. “I blame a lot of it on an actress friend called Lisa Harrow who swept into our lives about then. She seemed impossibly glamorous and beautiful… I still wonder today if Lisa had been a plumber, my life would have taken a different turn.”

The Actress Now will be on display in Rooms 41(a) and 41 of the National Portrait Gallery from October 20  2011 – January 2 2012, free admission.

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In a white lab coat Weisz, 41, was photographed wearing the label “Sterisyn Morlanta”. Although little is known about Weisz’ character in the film, details about the actors that will appear have started to unravel.

According to The Daily Mail, the movie is being directed by Tony Gilroy and will feature Jeremy Renner, Ed Norton, Joan Allen and a possible return from Albert Finney. Norton will play the villain in the movie, according to bournelegacytrailer.com.

However the star of the other films in the series, Matt Damon will not return for the next installment. Damon spoke about not taking part in the latest film and his place in the Bourne series.

“I have no idea about any of it. You won’t see me in the background of the new one. He’s got a whole other thing that they’re doing and I wish them well and Tony Gilroy’s really smart,” Damon said, according to The Daily Mail. “I’m sure they’re going to be great. All I know is that it doesn’t preclude Paul Greengrass and me from doing another one of ours.”

Although film director Greengrass and actor Damon will not be a part of the latest film, Weisz has proved that she will work hard to be a part of it. She has maintained her commitment with the latest installment, despite starring in two other feature films this year, “Deep Blue Sea” and “Dream House.”

Weisz spoke about her ability to handle the range of roles in a short period of time.

“I like to mix things up,” she said, according to The Daily Mail. “How do I do it? I just do it. The different costumes help a lot.”

The film is slated for an August 2012 debut.

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IT’S no surprise that Rachel Weisz isn’t worried about getting roles, despite working in an industry obsessed with youth.

At 41, the British star is strikingly beautiful and her career is soaring with Weisz’s performance in The Whistleblower generating strong Oscar buzz.

“I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced,” the mother-of-one says.

“You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.”

Weisz plays Kathryn Bolkovac in The Whistleblower, which is based on the true story of a US cop who uncovered a sex trafficking scandal while working as a peacekeeper in Bosnia.

The actress has a knack for choosing interesting, dynamic movies. She’s starred in big blockbusters such as The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, and has an Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award under her belt for best Supporting Actress as Tessa Quayle in 2005′s The Constant Gardener.

But Weisz says she’s very much the reluctant movie star.

“I’m a little fearful of the way your life changes when you become too well known,” she says.

“I’m also fairly reserved and it’s quite embarrassing to deal with that kind of attention. I’d rather float about anonymously. I don’t really think of myself as a sex symbol or a celebrity at all.”

It’s this reluctance at being a celebrity that is behind Weisz keeping her relationship and marriage to 43-year-old James Bond star, Daniel Craig, a closely guarded secret. The couple got together on the set of The Dream House in December last year, a month after it was announced she had split with her partner of 10 years, US director Darren Aronofsky.

They revealed they had been apart for months but were remaining friends for their son, five-year-old Henry Chance.

Meanwhile, Craig was also emerging from a long term relationship – he also announced in November he had split from Satsuki Mitchell, 32, whom he had been engaged to since 2007.

Weisz and Craig had been friends for years, but romance blossomed on the set of the film, which is due for release in December and also stars Naomi Watts.

After a whirlwind courtship they tied the knot in front of just four guests at their low-key ceremony in New York in June.

Weisz doesn’t talk openly about their relationship, but she reveals it’s only recently (since she has been with Craig) she has felt more at ease with herself.

“For a long time I was quite shy and conflicted about my life, and it’s only lately that I’ve started to feel freer and become more open to enjoying life,” she said. “That’s made me become more serious about my work.”

The role of Bolkovac is definitely serious, but it’s something Weisz relished.

She says she researched the part with a plenty of reading and watching documentaries and although she didn’t meet someone who had been trafficked, she did get to meet the real Kathy Bolkovac.

“I got to hang out with her and channel her spirit,” she says.

Weisz says she loved the chance to play a character based on a real woman.

“I’m immensely moved and inspired. And to know that there are real heroines on Earth, I’m very inspired by that.”

The controversial subject matter even stirred up a negative backlash in the UN, which is not portrayed in a particularly favourable light in the film.

What next for Weisz? She has touched on the possibility she may be thinking about having another child with Craig.

In a recent interview with US magazine Lucky she revealed: “Oh, I wouldn’t make one just for the sake of giving my son a sibling. But you never know.”

Her son Henry plays an important part in her acting decisions. “I have a child now, so you have to be able to go deep into something and then switch off at the end of the day,” she said. “It’s the only way to remain sane.”

She was originally offered the role of Bolkovac when she was pregnant with her son and it was due to him she initially turned it down.

“I was pregnant. Very pregnant. And I read it and thought it was one of the most incredible stories and scripts I had ever read,” she said.

“But it was too challenging and traumatic to engage in at that moment. Because of my physical state. I just couldn’t get my head around it. But I couldn’t forget it. I guess I was just haunted by the story. I contacted them about it again, two years later.”

If she does have another baby with her Craig, Weisz could be having to make that decision to hold off on a role again in the very near future.

The Whistleblower is now showing.

On the cover, Weisz is dressed in an Alexander McQueen herringbone trench and is standing in a pose that reveals plenty. The September issue also includes an interview with Marc Jacobs and Robert Duffy and an eight-page spread that shows off the back rooms and ateliers of Hermès.

Needleman’s first September issue delivers some good news: WSJ clocks in at 124 total pages and 57 ad pages — both records for the three-year-old magazine. A Wall Street Journal spokeswoman said that its ad performance is a 52 percent jump over last year’s September issue.

The issue comes out on August 27.

The Deep Blue Sea directed by Terence Davies
An adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play The Deep Blue Sea about the wife of a Judge who engages in an affair with an RAF pilot.

360 directed by Fernando Meirelles
Director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) reunites with his Constant Gardener star Rachel Weisz, who stars opposite Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, and Ben Foster in this uncompromising dramatic thriller fuelled by the notion of how sexual relationships can transgress social boundaries.

Page Eight directed by David Hare
Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is an MI5 agent who has learned to keep his observational skills perpetually operational. However, a top secret document containing unsavoury revelations about compromises made by Britain’s government will push Johnny’s professional abilities, as well as his integrity, to their limits.

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Proud of her natural curves, Kate Winslet has declared that she is joining forces with her fellow British actresses to fight against Hollywood pressure to undergo cosmetic surgery.
The 35-year-old star of Titanic says she has formed what she describes as the “British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League” with her Oscar-winning friends Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz.
“I will never give in,” vows Winslet. “It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty.”
Winslet, who is the daughter of “jobbing actors” from Berkshire, adds: “I am an actress, I don’t want to freeze the expression of my face.”
Her comments echo those by Thompson, to whom she has been close since they appeared together in Sense and Sensibility in 1995. “I’m not fiddling about with myself,” said Thompson, 52. “We’re in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60.”
Weisz, 41, for her part, has said her natural beauty is an asset. “People who look too perfect don’t look sexy or particularly beautiful,” said the Oscar-winning star of The Constant Gardener, who married Daniel Craig this year.
However, Gwyneth Paltrow, the American actress, who lives in London with her husband, the Coldplay singer Chris Martin, says she would consider surgery on her breasts.
“I still refuse to use silicone, Botox or any other of those gimmicks of pure vanity, but a breast correction after breast feeding – why not?” she says. “There’s actually nothing else to restore the original condition, is there?”