The Caroline Rhea Show - 06/15/2003

August 2nd, 2007 | by mima |

Talking: Rachel Weisz (R) and Caroline Rhea (C)C - You know our next guest from the hugely successfull movie, The Mummy, and its equally successfull sequel, The Mummy Returns, she’’s now staring in two new films, Confidence and The Shape of Things, please welcome the very beautiful and talented, Rachel Weisz

(Rachel comes out)

C-” How are you?”

R- ” I”m well how are you?”

C- Its very nice to meet you. Youre a bombshell.”

R- (Gives face) Oh, well (laughs)

C- ” Yeah.”

R- ” Thank you, you”re a natural, you dont need any lessons what so ever?

C- ” No, not at all.”

R- ” We were watching you backstage, she is a natural bombshell, you are, look at her. (towards audience)

C- ” Tell America.”

R- ” She’’s a bombshell.”

C- Now, I have seen lots of your films, first one that I saw you in I think, was The Mummy and I was like Who is this gorgeous girl who gets to kiss Brendan Fraser all the time?”

R- (Gasps) Oh, I know.

C- ” So lucky”

R- ” I”m so lucky.”

C- “I love those movies.”

R- “Yeah, both were very fun.”

C- “I love those movies, I love that Oded Fehr, is that his name?”

R- ” Yes, that is his name.”

C- “Oh my god is he dreamy”?

R- “Yeah”

C- Oh, the evil, no he’’s the good guy?

R- He, he is good in the end, you dont know for a while and then yeah, he is good, he’’s a good guy.

C- Hes sexy, Um, so lets tell everybody, your from England originally?

R- Yeah, I”m from London, England.

C- Right, but you do an American accent perfectly.

R- I do um, yeah in these movies, I do, these new ones yeah, yeah.

C- You were great in Confidence.

R- Thank you.

C- Totally, youve got some really good Kharma, but, um so you live in between London and New York

R- (laughing) Good Kharma?

C- Yeah, youve got good film kissing Kharma, um so you weird concept. (laughs)

C- You”re in New York as well now?

R- Yeah

C- Do you like it?

R- I do, yea I love it, I love it yeah

C- Isnt it nice?

R- Its a great city.

C- What do you think, ooh, that reminds me, I forgot it in my purse but I brought you a crunchy bar from England.

R- Oh thank you. (laughs)

C- Sorry (laughs) Don you think England has better Chocolate?

R- Actually there are only two things about England I think are better, is the tea, and the chocolate, yeah.

C- Yeah

R- Everything else in America is far better.

( Audience cheers)

R- America! (laughs)

C- What do you find are the biggest differences in people?

R- Um, well, I would say, like in England, everybody pretends to be very very humble, like if your ambitious, you have to pretend your not, kind of like you know when youre in school and youre maybe revising for an exam, you have to pretend like “Oh I know I can do any work”, its like its not cool to be working hard.

C- But I always never did any, but anyway

R- But when youre, when your growing up in England, its like that you, you have to pretend I”m..

C- (says in accent) Oh, no, no, I”ll never be anything

R- Yeah, yeah, “I dont care at all, I”m bumbling along, I dont really care”, you cant be ambitious its very..

C- But America, its like I”m going for it, right?

R- Totally, yeah, people aplaud that, which is, that is the American dream, which is a good thing, I like that.

C- Yeah.

R- The other big difference is dating, we dont do dating.

C- You dont?

R- No, it doesnt exist.

C- You just marry?

R- (laughs) We kiss, we marry, and that it, no no, its just the concept doesnt exist.

C- Of dating?

R- No, we dont date, it doesnt happen, we go out with someone, like what I figured out dating means, it means that you can like see tons of people all the same time, its like a really.. C- crunchy bar from England.

C- Yeah, so you just date the one person huh?

R- Yeah you do.

C- But what now your in America, you can date-date.

R- I could try, it would be very confusing, I dont understand how you can do more than one at the same time.

C- I never dated more than one person in my entire life.

(Commercials) C- Were back with Rachel Weisz, British girl, becoming big American movie star. Um, youre new film Confidence, you were lucky you got Ed Burns, Andy Garcia, and Dustin Hoffman.

R- I know, what more could a girl ask for? (laughs)

C- And that s pretty good because you and Dustin Hoffman have incredible chemistry, even though your sort of on opposite sides.

R- Yeah, it was just, yeah chemistry is just something that happens, you can”t really plan it or design it, and we have this kind of weird scene, where he sort of seduces me, and he has his hand on my breast, and its just all dark and weird and the air just goes zing and the thing is about Dustin, is that he improvises, that s why he’’s such a great actor cause he doesn”t stick to his script, so, he’’s saying stuff and your going “Oh my god, you just Oh” you get completely thrown

C- You can see that you were completely thrown, is that the clip we have?

(Shows clip, but its not that one)

C- Oh, so sexy! So you”re the only woman in this whole film?

R- Yeah

C- And whats it like being around all those guys?

R- Well, it was, I like men so it was fine, but the thing that happened, after about two weeks they kind of forgot that I was a girl, and they started to hang out as if there were only guys there, so I found out how men behave, when women arnt around. (smiles)

C- Disgusting?

R- Its disgusting. (Big laugh) Its their language, is like people say you know women have foul mouths, we don”t talk as dirty as guys do.

C- No, really?

R- No, I don”t think so. People say you know women have foul mouths, we dont don”t talk as dirty as guys do.

C- No, really?

R- No, I Idont don”t think so.

C- Isn”t that depressing! Its like you.. Oh, look at youre beautiful earings (reaches over and touches them)

R- Thank you

C- Um, ok, now tell us about your other film, The Shape Of Thngs, adorable Paul Rudd

R- Aw, isn” t he so gorgeous? Yeah

C- You play sort of, how would you describe her?

R- I play, shes a kind of, punky graduate art student and she falls in love with Paul Rudd, who’’s this kind of slumpy, fat guy and she gives him a makeover

C- Right

R- Um..

C- It is aweful when your dating someone and you look at them and youre just like “Oh what I”m going to do with you”.

R- That” s what this movie is about, how couples try to change each other in relationships.

C- And they do and they go too far.

R- Yeah

C- Um ok, your going to really think I”m insane, but when I found our that your name was, because of they way its spelled Rachel Weisz, I though it was Rachel Weisz.

R- Yeah R- Yeah, its pronounced like that

C- So, I kept on thinking like Adal Vice

R- ( Smiles and gets cute voice) Yeah

C- (Sings) “Rachel Weisz” So, um your going to think I”m insane, but we wrote you a song. ( laughs)

( Rachel looks at band surprised)

C- You have to listen very carefully ok?

R- Yeah (turns towards band)

Song: Rachel Weisz, Rachel Weisz, we”re so happy to greet you, dark and svelt, you could melt, any mummy who”d meet you. The men weve seen kissing you on screen, that you grant his major, and Miss Weisz, theres no price, on making out with Brendan Fraser.

( Rachel and Caroline are laughing throughout song)

R- (Applauding) Thank you, Thank you. They used to sing that years

C- When you were little?

R- When I was really little.

(Goes to commercial)

C- I want to thank my guest, Bill Bedomy, and Rachel Weisz, and go see Confidence!

Credit: Nefertirievy