Rachel Weisz

Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, currently filming in Malta, talks about how she juggles motherhood with film roles ranging from boozy vixen to ancient philosopher. Weisz is the daughter of Jewish parents who fled Nazi-occupied Hungary and Austria. From MSNBC.

The 37-year-old British beauty recently wrapped production on “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the best-selling novel “The Lovely Bones,” due next year, and is currently appearing in “My Blueberry Nights.”..

“It was 2 1/2 months after I’d had a baby, so it was kind of perfect,” Weisz said in a phone interview from Malta, where she is now shooting the historical epic “Agora.” “It was five, six days in Memphis (where her ‘Blueberry’ scenes were shot) and working with one of my all-time heroes.”

Weisz said she brings her son with her on location but has had to adjust to demands of balancing diapers and directors. “You muddle through and figure it out and get exhausted and keep muddling through,” she said. “I just joined the ranks of millions of working mums out there and I have great respect for them because there is a lot of juggling to do.”

“Blueberry Nights” is one of numerous plum jobs Weisz said have come her way since she won the Academy Award as best supporting actress for her 2005 portrait of a determined social activist and diplomat’s wife in “The Constant Gardener,” based on the John le Carre novel..

In “Agora,” from Chilean director Alejandro Amenabar, she is cast as the astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world amid the rise of Christianity around 300 A.D...