6/24/2023 0 Comments Lisa schwartz nudeSo we did one side and then - oh, gosh, my brain’s hurting thinking about it. It was technically really challenging because we were going over the boundary of the split screen. She moves around more, she’s more volatile, while Beverly is more still and quiet and will fit into what Elliot does. Weisz: In general, we learned to start with Elliot in any scene when they were both there because Elliot sets the pace. All I remember is that we were wearing really big rings, and that hurt when we hit each other. Weisz: Did we have, like, a beep in our ear? Was it difficult shooting that, synchronizing the timing? There is a scene in an elevator when Elliot keeps swiping at Beverly’s phone and she just calmly brushes her off, over and over. Kitty Hawthorne and Brandon Bassir in “Dead Ringers” (Prime Video) I think I had about a week before we got started, so I was just learning the lines as quickly as I could. Hawthorne: It was all about the script, right, Rachel? Even just the way the characters punctuated, that changes the breath. It was many weeks of sitting in my office with the door closed, getting into the characters and psychologically bending myself to find them because they are distinctly different human beings whose whole lives revolve around one another, but they’re radically different. Weisz: I’d worked with Alice for quite a long time before I was in the writers room and before the writers went to script, so I had a sense of their differences. How did you wrap your head around inhabiting both sisters? Rachel, you not only play two very different twins, but you play twins who impersonate each other to throw other characters off. ‘The Last of Us’ Star Bella Ramsey Understood Their Character Right Away: ‘Ellie Came Very Naturally for Me’ She’s just full of life and energy and highly intelligent. She made bold, fabulous, interesting choices. She did Beverly and Elliot, and she just was a phenomenal actress. So she sent in an audition tape, and she did the scene in the diner which opens the show. Rachel Weisz: Kitty hadn’t graduated from Guildhall drama school yet. Rachel, you had to choose your scene partner carefully for “Dead Ringers” to work. Rachel Weisz in both “Dead Ringers” roles (Prime Video) We spoke to both actors about their experience. “I had a brilliant partnership with Kitty,” Weisz said. And for Weisz, Hawthorne (who also plays the twin babies’ struggling mother in flashbacks) was much more than a stand-in. They’d shoot, swap roles and shoot the scene all over again. To shoot scenes in which both twins appear, Weisz acted opposite Kitty Hawthorne, usually playing Elliot first while Hawthorne played Beverly. “It was the biggest acting challenge I’ve ever done,” Weisz said.
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