UNITED KINGDOM: Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz promotes her latest film, "The Brothers Bloom"

Record ID: 219566

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz promotes her latest film, "The Brothers Bloom"
  • Date: 29th October 2008
  • Summary: WEISZ TALKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) RACHEL WEISZ SAYING: "It was really... you know, I've never played a character like it, I've never come across a character like it. So, for me it was a real challenge, it was really original, it was unique, I had an awful lot of fun playing her." WEISZ SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS / WALKING INTO THEATRE
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  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
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  • Story Text: Academy award winner Rachel Weisz and British actor Robbie Coltrane attended the premiere of their new film "The Brothers Bloom" on Monday (October 27) night.
    The film is the second feature film from writer-director Rian Johnson, who also walked the red carpet at London's Leicester Square.
    It follows the lives of two brothers, con men and expert swindlers, who target a rich young heiress from New Jersey. Older brother Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) is the mastermind behind all the cons, thinking up stories and getting his younger brother Bloom (Adrien Brody) to help him execute. Bloom has an attack of conscience and decides to start a new life, but his brother convinces him to carry out a con one last time.
    Their mark is Penelope (Rachel Weisz), a rich heiress who lives in a mansion all on her own. She makes for an easy target and is easily attracted to the promise of a life of adventure. She inadvertently takes their bait and joins them on a trip through Europe ending up in Mexico.
    Lead actress Rachel Weisz talked about how much she enjoyed making the film at its premiere in the London Film Festival.

    "It was really really fun. We were travelling around Eastern Europe. We were in Serbia, Romania, Montenegro, Czech Republic, and um, we'd pack our trunks every Sunday, hit another country, it was a lot of fun, it was a lot of fun," she said.

    "It was probably just as much fun to make, I hope, as it was to watch. We got to travel around to a bunch of amazing locations with some of my favourite actors in the world. You know, Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, it was just. It, it felt a bit like we were a travelling circus," director Rian Johnson added.
    Part of the stellar cast is Academy-award nominee Rinko Kikuchi. The Japanese actress made headlines when she played alongside A-lister Brad Pitt in the film 'Babel' in 2006, for which she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination. In "The Brothers Bloom" Kikuchi plays Bang-Bang, an explosives expert who travels with the brothers Bloom and doesn't say much. In fact, she doesn't say anything at all but still manages to portray her character very well.

    "She's, Rinko's my hero, yeah, she's pretty amazing. She, she plays a very comic part in this movie and she's very funny in it. But I had only seen her in Babel, which was a very serious role. But then I learned once I met with her that she actually started doing comedies in Japan. So she had the comic timing and the comic chops and she's, she's kind of from another planet, in a good way. She kinda feels like she's from, a happy place, and it's somewhere out there, in the edge of the universe," said Johnson.
    The film successfully weaves in comedy, drama and romance, and as Robbie Coltrane said: "It's a great date movie!"
    The London Film Festivalon Thursday (October 30).
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