Rachel Weisz goes for dramatic new look in Vanity Fair shoot as she turns action girl in 007 rival Bourne Legacy

Thirteen years after she leaped to fame in The Mummy, Rachel Weisz is returning to the action genre.

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.

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.

Daniel Craig And Rachel Weisz To Start Family

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig are reportedly planning to have a child together!

The couple — who married earlier this year — are keen to start a family.

“They really want to make their own family,” an insider tells Star magazine. “It’s very important for them to have a child together — and soon.

“Rachel and Daniel fell hard for each other. He’d give her the moon and stars if she wanted, and what she really wants is a baby. He’s completely happy to have a child with her.

“Rachel was pretty much a workaholic throughout her 30s and privately has said that her relationship with Darren failed because she didn’t have a healthier work-home balance. She doesn’t want to make the same mistake twice — and she thinks Daniel is amazing. She already jokes that their child will be Baby Bond!”

The couple both have kids from previous relationships. Rachel, 41, is mommy to five-year-old son Henry with ex-partner Darren Aronofsky, and 007 star Daniel, 43, has a 19- year-old daughter Ella with ex-wife Fiona Loudon.

Rachel Weisz poses with a lion

Bond girl Rachel Weisz posed with a live lion for Bulgari's latest fragrance campaign. 

Clutching a bottle of Jasmin Noir scent and draped in diamonds, the 41-year-old flashed some smouldering looks alongside a live lion, one of the emblems of the luxury label. 

The daring pictures were shot by photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott who recently snapped Naomi Campbell for Gucci. 

Preview images have been released following the news that the actress has been chosen as the face of the brand's Jasmin Noir fragrance that will launch this August. 

"Rachel Weisz embodies the quintessential contemporary woman. Her beauty, portrays simple yet extremely intriguing femininity," the Daily Mail quoted a spokesperson for the brand as saying. 

This collaboration comes just weeks after news of her secret, New York wedding to 'Bond' star Daniel Craig emerged.

Daniel Craig's marriage stuns ex-fiance

Actor Daniel Craig's marriage to actress Rachel Weiz has left his ex-fiance Satsuki Mitchell stunned.

Mitchell's father Christopher revealed that his daughter is so upset that she has forbidden family members from mentioning Craig's name.

"His sudden marriage came out of nowhere. We heard about it like everyone else - by reading the newspapers. She doesn't mention his name now and tells me off if I do," dailymail.co.uk quoted the father as saying.

"Satsuki has only just reached a happy place. She has since said, more than once, that the break-up was the best thing for her. She knew he was not the man she wanted him to be and there was something wrong in the relationship," he added.

Mitchell, 32, and Craig, 43, got engaged in 2007. They split last November.