would suddenly say: 'Alright, in front
of you is a huge chariot crashing down
the stairs with 10,000 armed soldiers
rushing right at you.' But there was
nothing there at all, so I had to create
the correct emotion, fear or whatever,
while just looking at a blank space,"
says Weisz.
The 20-something actress, currently
starring in the London stage produc-
tion of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly
Last Summer, next stars opposite
Ralph Fiennes in Isztuan Szabo's
Sunshine.
With The Mummy opening in the-
aters today, Weisz took time out from
her busy schedule to speak with the
Jewish News about her family and
career.
JN: How does one pronounce your
surname?
RW: My family pronounces it "vice."
JN: Were both your parents
Holocaust survivors?
RW: They were refugees from Eastern
Europe, yes. They were very small
children when war broke out. My
mother was born in Vienna, and my
father was born in Budapest, and they
both had to flee to England, where
they met a few years later.
JN: Were you ever subjected to anti-
Semitism?
RW: Personally I've never come across
prejudice. I've heard people make
jokes of a racist or anti-Semitic nature,
[and] I've come across people who are
very prejudiced, but it has never got-
ten in the way of anything for me.
JN: Do you think of yourself as
English?
RW: That's an incredibly complicated
question to answer. I am English, but
my parents are not, so ... I don't feel
totally English; yet I don't feel
Viennese, and I don't feel Hungarian.
I don't really feel that I'm any kind of
particular nationality. I feel kind of
mixed. I feel at home and not at home
in lots of different places.
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JN: Any actors in the family?
RW: "No, my mother is a psychoana-
lyst, but she is very Viennese, and
Viennese people are quite naturally
theatrical. We have no artists any-
where that I know of.
JN: Where do you make your home
now?
RW: Well, I have a home, an apart-
ment in London, but that's sort of
where my possessions are. I'm not
physically there very much.
JN: Would you live in Hollywood?
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JN: Do you have any siblings?
RW: I have a younger sister. She's a
couple of years younger than I. And I
have a stepbrother. He's 15.
JN: Was it tough having a psychoana-
lyst as a mother?
RW: It was a nightmare! Absolute
nightmare! No, I mean, I love her very
much, but it's just so difficult because
they use all these terms. Like when
you are in a bad mood when you're 5,
you don't want to be told that you are
"projecting" or "displacing" or whatev-
er term. ... You want to say, "I'm just
in a really bad mood!" Yeah, and if
you lose your keys, they say things
like, "You didn't really want to come
home" and stuff like that. Nothing
ever is just what it is — it always has
some great, deeper significance,which
can be hilarious but also exhausting at
the same time. So I think it has given
me a sense of comedy, definitely,
about life.
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