Rachel McAdams Says love Scene With 'Disobedience' Co-Star Rachel Weisz Topped Previous Scenes With Male Actors
There's a reason everyone who's seen the movie considers it the best love scene of the year.
Anyone who has seen 'Disobedience' has been raving about the moving and sensual love scene between lead actresses Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz. It turns out that even while they were filming it, Weisz and McAdams knew how special this moment was for their characters and put aside their inhibitions to be vulnerable.
Obviously, the artistic choices have translated beautifully on screen.
Often, you are trying to decide if it is free or not. But this scene felt so integral to the plot and moved the story forward, McAdams said. Entertainment Weekly.
Characters need this cast to open. There was an energy to that scene that I hadn't experienced in any other s*x scene [with men] in my career.'
The actress reiterated that she had camaraderie in doing the scene with Weisz.
We both feel safe and free. All those things that you love about being a woman, you can be with them [in the scene],' she explained.
Even the set had a unique warmth and tranquility, McAdams recalled. 'It was a wonderful day. [I] realized that I was doing a scene like any other scene. They should all make you feel vulnerable, some more than others, but they should all be risky. It turned into another day at work, that way,' she said.
Sebastian Lelio's 'Disobedience' tells the story of Ronit (Rachel Weisz), who is forced to return to the ultra-Orthodox community she left behind when her father, a well-known rabbi, dies suddenly. She moves in with her father's disciple Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) and her wife Esti (Rachel McAdams), with whom she had an affair when she was a teenager.
The film is less about the forbidden love between Ronit and Esti, and more about how their love and her s*xuality are unfairly oppressed by the people around them. As McAdams points out, she knew we were telling a lesbian story and there was a need to focus on that, but beyond that, only humans are with humans.''
