Weisz plays real-life fourth-century Egyptian philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria in the Spanish historical drama.
“There’s a style of acting that can come with period films where everybody just freezes up,” Rachel told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper. “But they were drinking and fucking and doing maths or whatever else they were doing. They were just people." “I actually told Alejandro they should shoot a scene where she was looking at the stars and masturbating."
Weisz — who has three-year-old son Henry with director fiance Darren Aronofsky — recently insisted she leads an “ordinary life”. Of course,” she said, “it’s not ordinary to get dressed in frocks to walk down red carpets and travel all over the world and stay in five-star hotels. “I’m not working in a factory. But I drop Henry off at school, I pick him up. I try my hardest to keep everyone together. “I am interested in playing extra-ordinary women, but I have an ordinary life.”
Does she choose to ask masturbation scene in Agora to make her life some change?