Rachel Weisz reveals she suffered a miscarriage as she reacts to criticism around graphic birth scenes in 'Dead Ringers'

2023-05-18 12:54

Rachel Weisz said the graphic birth scenes in 'Dead Ringers' were not 'overdramatized'

Rachel Weisz recently talked about her emotional journey of experiencing a miscarriage. The 53-year-old British actress, a mother of two, addressed the issue of how delivery and loss are portrayed in her new series, 'Dead Ringers,' in which she portrays twin gynecologists, while also talking about losing her child.

Rachel gave birth to daughter Grace, who is now 4 years old, in 2018 with husband Daniel Craig, 55. She also has a 16-year-old son named Henry with her ex-partner, Darren Aronofsky. The pair was together from 2001-2010. She discussed her thoughts on viewers' responses to the scenes in the new Prime Video series, which featured women suffering from miscarriages and footage of live births on the podcast The News Agents.

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'I've had a miscarriage'

Rachel Weisz discussed the response to the sequences, which featured women experiencing miscarriages and footage of live births, with the hosts Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel as follows, "I think I probably was surprised because I was just telling this story about the female experience, and it didn't seem to have been like heightened or overdramatized... Women have miscarriages, I've had a miscarriage, so you suddenly you see blood coming out of your body and these are just all part of a female experience of being alive." The 53-year-old British actress continued, "So, we're not used to it. I think we're not used to seeing any of those things being represented cinematically or fictionally. So maybe this is breaking some new ground this show."

When did Rachel Weisz suffer a miscarriage?

The celebrity, who maintains her privacy in her personal life, did not reveal when the miscarriage occurred. Weisz expressed her relief that her husband Daniel, who departed from his position as James Bond in the 2021 film 'No Time To Die,' was no longer portraying 007., in extremely uncommon statements. "It was very dangerous. I mean, he got injured a lot because he did all his own stunts. So, the danger quotient has definitely gone down… It is a much less stressful time for him," she said. "I'm really proud of his time as Bond and I think he was really, really brilliant. But yeah, it's much less stressful now, for sure."

'You can take life at the end of life'

In the conversation, Rachel criticized anti-abortion campaigners who support the death sentence in the USA for their hypocrisy. "Both ends of life have different rules, it is very strange… Children have to they have to be born but there's going to be no free health care for them. There's no free schooling for children under the age of five," said the actress. "And now every day, there seems to be more and more of a chance that you might get shot by an assault rifle at school…," she continued. "You can take life at the end of life; the government can choose to say you deserve to die. But at the beginning of life a woman has no choice. How do you rationalize that?"