Rachel Weisz on why she’s not on social media: ‘I would be really crap at it’
Andrew Mckinney
Updated on March 10, 2026
Rachel Weisz covered a recent issue of Porter Magazine to promote her version of Dead Ringers, which is now a miniseries on Amazon Prime. I never saw the Jeremy Irons movie, it looked too creepy for me, and I’ll probably skip this series too. Still, I like that it’s something Weisz put together herself, hiring a screenwriter and going into the meetings to sell it to Amazon. Weisz stars as twin sisters, both gynecologists, both dysfunctional in their own ways. Weisz had to act most of her scenes with herself, basically, using an earpiece to hear her performance as the other twin while she filmed scenes. Some highlights from her Porter interview:
Playing against herself: “Day one, it was a mindf–k. But by the end, it just became like breathing.”
No social media: “I’m not very technologically savvy; I would be really crap at it,” she says – and she doesn’t say much publicly about her relationship with her husband, Daniel Craig, or their life together as a family. It isn’t an intentional strategy, but rather a personal philosophy. “I suppose, for me, the words ‘private life’ mean just that: that you have a private life, which is the real-life stuff. And then there’s the fantasy stuff.”
She looks for complicated female characters: “Oftentimes, with roles for women in the past, I’ve found them very oversimplified, and I think that’s changing, which is really good. The thing I’m looking for is complicated characters. It’s interesting, complex writing.”
Selling it as a miniseries to Amazon: “You could explore it in this long-form way. I’d never done it, and I think it’s where some of the most exciting writing is happening…. It was a straight-to-series order, which is a really big deal, and I was just learning as I went. It’s been a long journey for me. It wasn’t the same as being offered a job with the script written – Alice and I developed the idea together and then she wrote an incredible script.”
On Brendan Fraser, her old costar in The Mummy franchise: “I’m really, really thrilled for him… that he’s had this new chapter. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer, nicer guy.”
She still loves the Mummy franchise: “It’s beloved to me, too. I feel very much the same. When we were making it, we had no idea – we didn’t know if it was going to even sell tickets. Everybody in The Mummy was just brilliant, and it was just some alchemical thing in it, that it had charm, and charm is such a strange thing – it’s either there or it isn’t.”
It never really occurred to me that Weisz and her husband completely opt out of social media. I remember reading that someone had finally told Daniel Craig about the “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Weeknd” meme and he was like “wait, what?” I buy that they’re both tragically off-line, although I bet Daniel’s daughter (who I believe is her early 20s) probably tells them stuff. As for the Mummy franchise… I’ve literally never seen any of those movies! I realize that they’re being re-embraced by the youths, maybe I should finally check them out. Though I will absolutely pass on Dead Ringers. Sorry to Rachel.
