Rachel Weisz, 39, is calling out actors and actresses who are destroying their faces with Botox. In a new interview in Harper’s Bazaar UK (story via Fox News), Rachel says that Botox should be “banned”. What’s funny is that it seems Rachel is purposefully refusing to call out specific actors, but Fox News has no problem naming one… cough cough Nicole Kidman cough. Fox News, in a particularly cheeky way, claims that Rachel thinks “Nicole Kidman is to acting what Barry Bonds is to baseball.” Chuckle.
Rachel Weisz thinks Nicole Kidman is to acting what Barry Bonds is to baseball. At least that’s what the “Mummy” star tells the August issue of the UK edition of Harper’s Bazaar.
“It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen,” Weisz says of Botox. “Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?”
The London-born Oscar-winner (you can tell she’s from there because she uses the word “sportsmen”) also says she’s much more comfortable back in jolly old England than she is in appearance-obsessed America.
“I love the way girls in London dress; it’s so different to the American “blow-dry and immaculate grooming” thing,” she says.
But she is comfortable with traditional female roles. Very traditional.
Married to director Darren Aronofsky, she says “I am cave-woman to his man – man.”
[From Fox News]
I’m not sure how one would enforce a Botox ban, but I’d like to see Rachel try. I’d imagine it would involve trying to wrestle the needle out of Nicole’s cold, dead hand. In another interview excerpt, Rachel describes how she lives by Tom Cruise, and the paparazzi often mistake her for him:
Rachel Weisz gets mistaken for Tom Cruise.
The Oscar-winning actress claims she isn’t famous enough to be followed by paparazzi in Hollywood, and only gets snapped by people looking for the Valkyrie star, who lives close to her.
She explained to Britain’s Harper’s Bazaar magazine: “Sometimes the paparazzi, on the lookout for Tom Cruise who lives nearby, trickle onto my street, take a few pictures of me, and disappear. But I never feel hounded.”
“I am really not on that level of fame. I go on the subway and I can walk my son Henry to school. I have never had a problem, except maybe briefly when I won the Oscar and gave birth to Henry in quick succession. Then suddenly everyone was interested. Having those lenses coming up towards you when you’re holding this little bundle in your arms is frightening.”
[From The Age]
I could see it. Rachel and Tom Cruise has very similar coloring. If Tom Cruise dressed up in drag (and I’m not saying he does, but wouldn’t that be something?) he would look a lot like Rachel. I wonder if she and Tom ever hang out. I wonder if her disgust with Botox really is related to Nicole Kidman and Rachel’s some kind of closeted Team Cruise person. Praise Xenu, we have a conspiracy!
Rachel Weisz is shown in Cannes on 5/17 and 5/18/09. She is shown with her fiance, Darren Aronofsky. Credit: Fame Pictures. Nicole Kidman is shown on 12/10/08 and 12/13/08.
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