Rachel Weisz Says Her New Show 'Dead Ringers' Is ''Sex and the City' Plus a Little Horror' [Exclusive]

In an exclusive preview of her emmy magazine cover story, Rachel Weisz shares the HBO series "came up more than anything" while creating the characters in Dead Ringers

Rachel Weisz is revealing the unlikely inspiration for new psychological thriller Dead Ringers.

In an exclusive preview of her emmy magazine cover story (out April 14), the Oscar winner, 53, reveals that she was inspired by Sex and the City while playing identical twin sisters, Beverly and Elliott Mantle, in the television remake of David Cronenberg's 1988 film starring Jeremy Irons.

"Sex and the City came up more than anything," Weisz, who also serves as an executive producer of the show, shares. "I think all the writers would say that we're indebted to Sex and the City."

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Viewers will find that both shows examine female friends and SATC fans will see parallels between Elliot and the outgoing Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall).

Weisz describes the Prime Video series as "a deliciously wicked drama," adding, "It's our own cocktail, a real genre mashup — Sex and the City plus a little horror."

The Favourite star also opens up about the challenges of adapting the horror flick. For starters, in the new version, twin obstetricians are on a mission to change how women give birth.

"I really loved the original Cronenberg movie Dead Ringers, which came out in 1988," she explains. "I just had the idea, what if you remade it for television with two women, instead of two men in the lead roles."

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Weisz says she was "very involved" in the pre-production process but "when it came time to start filming, I was just an actress playing two roles, that would take twice as long to film a scene where both twins were in the scene and they were speaking to each other in the same frame, which was a great majority of the show."

The competition between the siblings also drew Weisz to the project.

"What interested me is that level of intimacy — the idea of sharing everything," she shares. "It's a really intense story. These two incredibly high-functioning siblings are brilliant at their jobs, but massively dysfunctional in their private lives. That contrast between genius and dysfunction is psychologically very profound."

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Despite the realistic nature of the show, Weisz says she didn't "feel queasy" during filming.

"There's blood and it's very realistic, seeing a C-section," she explains. "I met some obstetricians and they said, 'Oh you're not a real obstetrician until there is blood on the ceiling. Most surgeons say, blood on shoes,' and he was like, 'That's for beginners.' A very eminent Manhattan obstetrician said that to me."

"When you're giving birth, you can't observe it," she adds. "And it was extraordinarily beautiful and primal. I don't think I've ever had an adrenaline rush like that before."

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Dead Ringers premieres April 21 on Prime Video.

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