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Rachel Weisz.


Rachel Weisz has a brilliant boyfriend, a brand-new baby, and an Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener. We should hate her, right? But we can't. She's too delightful. She tells The Advocate her dyke dreams and how she met her b.f., Darren Aronofsky, who directed her in the wild new movie The Fountain.

Congratulations on Henry, your baby boy. With you and Darren as parents, has he shown any acting or directing ability?

He loves the sky! That's his favorite thing, to sit outside and look at the sky. Kind of like a hippie baby.

Is marriage on the horizon?

I don't think it is. I think we're going to be hippie parents.

Tell me about The Fountain. It sounds pretty fantastical.

It's extraordinary. It's a kind of an adult fairy tale fairy tale

Simple narrative typically of folk origin dealing with supernatural beings. Fairy tales may be written or told for the amusement of children or may have a more sophisticated narrative containing supernatural or obviously improbable events, scenes, and personages
, very romantic. It's about the search for the fountain of youth Fountain of Youth

legendary fountain of eternal youth. [World Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 432]

See : Unattainability
. It's psychedelic It's a psychedelic adult fairy tale--there we go.

This is our Big Gay Following feature, so I have to ask: You wouldn't have any problem playing gay?

Oh, absolutely not. [Henry cries.] He's hungry ... Here you go, butchkie. Mommy's talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
lecture, speech

rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to
 The Advocate magazine. Talking about whether she would like to be a lesbian in the movies.

If you were to play gay, who would you most like to work opposite?

The first one who comes to mind is Maggie Gyllenhaal Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress.

She is the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal and the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner.
. Or Catherine Keener Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959)[1] is a two time Academy Award-nominated American actress. Biography
Early life
Keener, the third of five children, was born in Miami, Florida, to Evelyn and Jim Keener, a manager of an automotive store.
. She's great.

What are you working on next?

I'm about to film a movie with [director] Wong Kar-wai
This is a Chinese name; the family name is 王 (Wang).


Wong Kar-wai (Traditional Chinese: 王家衛; Simplified Chinese:
, so the family is all going to go to Memphis next week. It's his first English-language film. I'm playing a good-time girl from Memphis, maybe not having quite a good time at the moment. A little brassy, a little brash. A modern Tennessee Williams character. It stars Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30 1979 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actress of American and Indian descent. , the singer. This is her first time acting.

You're a big Elvis fan.

Big fan. Yeah, I've already been to Graceland--but now I'll go back.

You're also a Janis Joplin fan ...

She's so completely wild and free. She's a very abandoned performer.

Is that a goal for you?

To be abandoned? Definitely.
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Title Annotation:BIG GAY FOLLOWING; interview
Author:Kort, Michele
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Interview
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 5, 2006
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