'Awards chat makes me sick': Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz on new film, The Favourite

The three stars talk rivalry, royalty, referendums and the depiction of women running the country in their new period drama. Will the script’s filthy language affect their Oscar chances?

Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone play love rivals in The Favourite, a period romance set in the court of Queen Anne. That’s underselling it: this ain’t your usual corset soap. The script is swearier, the stakes higher. Whoever wins the heart of the bedraggled monarch (Olivia Colman) earns not just a place in her four-poster, but safety, unlimited cake, a palace or two, plus free rein running the country at a time of peasant dissent and war with the French.

Off screen, Weisz and Stone are also rivals: both so brilliant in the film – the former as Lady Sarah, a sexy strategist in the Malcolm Tucker mould; the latter as Abigail, a bracingly aspirational maid with an immaculate accent – they’re up for the same awards. But that, they nod as one, is the limit of it.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2PMtDme