Rachel Weisz plays twins Beverly and Elliot Mantel in the new Prime Video series of Dead Ringers, an adaptation of the 1980s film starring Jeremy Irons. Sky News spoke to Weisz and writer Alice Birch about the making of the 'high-stakes drama'.
Weisz says the very nature of the character's careers makes for drama on screen."It's their job, delivering babies, so it was just very practically that's what they do, they deliver maybe four, five, six babies on a busy day," she said.
"But it's also such high-stakes drama. I mean, the ultimate life or death - it's dangerous and it's happening every second in the world... I know it's such a cliche, but it is a miracle every time, I think." With 25% of pregnancies in the UK ending in miscarriage, according to the National Childbirth Trust, and NHS figures showing that around one in seven couples have difficulty conceiving, Dead Ringers brings home the challenges faced by many prospective parents.For Weisz, her two characters touch on this - and the lengths couples go to in order to conceive - in very different ways.
"Beverly in her own life has been suffering from miscarriages so she's been having a hard time staying pregnant. Elliot wants to fix that, and she wants to fix it for all women and she starts to do things which are, I mean, the euphemism would be pushing against the boundaries of medical ethics - it's just downright illegal, let's face it, but Elliot doesn't care.
"They're both visionaries in their respective fields but Beverly doesn't want to play with nature... Elliot thinks science is there to just improve everything for a woman, and Beverly has a much more natural point of view and her dream is to make birthing for women a beautiful experience."
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