And as she prepares to show how tough she is in new thriller The Bourne Legacy, the 42-year-old has embraced a darker, dramatic look in a new photoshoot for Vanity Fair magazine.
Showing off her curves in a snakeskin Tom Ford dress, Mrs Daniel Craig speaks of her excitement at joining the new film franchise.
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| Rachel Weisz shows off her age-defying beauty and figure in a Tom Ford dress as she poses for Vanity Fair magazine |
The Bourne Legacy is the first of the franchise without former leading man Matt Damon as Jason Bourne with The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner playing a secret agent Aaron Cross.Weisz is cast as virologist Marta Shearing, who teams up with Aaron to escape a CIA plot to have them assassinated.
The mother-of-one tells the August edition of the magazine: 'It's much scarier; there's a whole world behind the one you’ve watched in the first three.
'I could identify with her character, ill-equipped to deal with the high-stakes drama. We are lone survivors, me and Jeremy Renner, and all the science is possible. It is not sci-fi - the level of realism is very, very high.'
Writer-director Tony Gilroy admitted the Oscar-winning actress provokes 'chaos' on set.
He told the magazine: 'She provokes chaos. She has her own navigational system that clicks on like an emergency beacon when everything’s going wrong. I’ve never put a character through such an ordeal before.
'It all has to be plausible. Rachel has got to convince us she’s an accomplished scientist, be able to convey a shattered personal life, bring a mantle of dead ends in her life to the screen. And in the end she has to kick some f**king ass.'
The full interview is in the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine, on sale now.
To watch a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot, visit Vanity Fair's website.
