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RW: No, I don't think I'll come and
live in Hollywood. My dream is to live
in New York for a few years. I love
New York. So I might go there for a
while, but I don't think it matters
where you live. Even if you get offers
in Hollywood for a lot of money, you
can just come for the film and they
put you up in a nice hotel.
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JN: As a student at Cambridge, did
you study drama?
RW: The truth is, I didn't, at all. I'm
an untrained actress — my major was
English literature.
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JN: Did it prepare you as an actress?
earth to do nothing other than imag-
ine yourself as being somebody else.
JN: Did success come easily, or did
you have a lot doubts?
RW: I still have doubts, all the time.
And I don't imagine that they'll ever
go away.
JN: Do you have a teaching diploma?
RW: You mean if I fail, could I teach
acting or English literature? I would
have to take a quick diploma, which I
shouldn't think would take too long,
and by then I would probably be
equipped to teach.
RW: No. It didn't help in the slightest.
I don't think you have to be educated
intellectually to be an actor. In fact, I
think it can get in the way.
If you study English literature, you
have to analyze a text. You're not to
imagine how to feel the part. So when
I act, I actually shut my brain down
till it keeps quiet.
JN: And in your personal life, do you
also shut off your brain and depend
on your emotions?
RW: Turn off the brain in my private
life when I fall in love? Yes, that's the
great joy of the beginning of love,
your brain is silenced. But after a
while, when you're in love, you can
have a relationship that is both of the
heart and the mind. The mind is quite
an erotic thing in itself.
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JN: How did you get into acting?
RW: I started a theater company
[called Talking Tongues], and we went
to the Edinburgh Festival, where we
could perform plays we'd actually writ-
ten. We were not very modest young
people. And then this play won an
award and got transferred to London.
So I got an agent, and did a lot of the-
ater, in a very off-off-off-Off-
Broadway way — in a very bizarre,
terrible, little avant-garde place.
Eventually I did mainstream West End
shows, and then I did auditions for
films, and now I'm here.
JN: Why did you want to be an
actress?
RW: That's a very difficult question to
answer. One of the main reasons I
think is — and a lot of actors share
this — you genuinely feel that there's
absolutely nothing else that you can
do. I mean, if you could do something
else, then you probably would. It's not
an easy profession. You have to gen-
uinely feel that you are put on this
Rachel Weisz: "You have to genuinely
feel that you are put on this earth to do
nothing other than imagine yourself as
being somebody else."
JN: As one of the "hot" new actresses
on the horizon, are you ready for
stardom?
RW: First of all, I hate that word. And
I don't like the word "hot" either,
which I know everyone uses. Heat to
me sounds like things get hot, and
then they get cold again afterward, so
I don't know. I want to be an actress,
and if someone makes me a star along
the way or whatever, if stardom hap-
pens, that's fine. But it's not some-
thing that I'm striving for, and I
wouldn't really quite know what to do
to get it. So to be really honest, it
means nothing to me. ❑
— Gail Zimmerman contributed
to this article.