AnOther spoke with Rachel Weisz and screenwriter Alice Birch about the making of Dead Ringers
show, full of the weapons-grade snark and appalling behaviour that people seem to want out of their sophisticated telly nowadays – Birch was a story editor onThe story revolves around identical twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle ,c. Elliot is reckless, hedonistic and caustically funny, giving Weisz the chance to lean into the fabulously waspish, fucked-up side she revealed in
and so much its own thing that it was quite a frightening prospect … but in a good way. Again, I think it’s that central relationship. I felt like we could spend more time [exploring] that.RW: I just wanted to play the part! There are things that are different because it’s been gender-flipped, like their relationship to their patients, but I don’t feel that we softened or feminised any of it; it’s just a fact [that the leading roles would be played by a woman].
Really we just wanted to steal that incredible relationship, and then build our own characters and [use them to] tell a new story.AD: One idea the show expands on is the ethics around women’s reproductive rights, and the accessibility of healthcare in general – timely issues in the US, but also in the UK, where a recent report suggested NHS waiting times for IVF treatment was harming women’s chances of having children.
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