![]() Weisz adds that she and Birch “didn’t have any kind of mandate or mission” when it came to reimagining the story-and while the end product is just as thrillingly provocative as Cronenberg’s original, it’s also entirely its own thing. Across the six-part series, which premieres April 21 on Prime Video, Weisz plays a gender-swapped version of Irons’s fertility-obsessed twins: Elliot, a sex-obsessed mad professor-type who has ambitious plans to build a fertility center, intoxicated by both power and nosefuls of illicit substances and Beverly, the more retiring and (ostensibly, at least) moral of the pair, whose burgeoning romance with a patient threatens to upset the siblings’ delicate equilibrium. ![]() ![]() ![]() Given Weisz’s viciously witty update on this twisted fable of hubris, celebrity, and errant sexuality, the pun here is surely very much intended. “I think that’s quite fertile territory.” “It was just seared into my memory.” What exactly was it about the film-in which Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists whose dubious ethical boundaries lead them down an increasingly grisly path, involving mutant surgical instruments and drug-induced deliriums-that appealed to Weisz’s sensibilities as a viewer? “I liked that it was deeply psychological, deeply twisted, perverse, and thrilling,” she recalls, wryly. Rachel Weisz doesn’t remember exactly when she first saw David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychosexual horror classic Dead Ringers, but she vividly remembers how it made her feel.
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