Rachel Weisz, Daniel Craig Heading To Broadway


Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig will take a break from playing real-life husband and wife to star in the Harold Pinter play Betrayal on Broadway this November, The New York Times reported Friday.

Pinter’s play was written in 1978 and last hit Broadway during the 2000-2001 season, that time starring Juliette Binoche, Liev Schreiber, and John Slattery.

The casting of Weisz (Oz: The Great and Powerful) and Craig (the reigning James Bond) will be a step up in star power, and the addition of director Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate) promises to sprinkle in a bit of Old Hollywood.

It’s only been a couple of years since Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig appeared together in a production. In 2011, the power couple starred as husband and wife in the plot-twister Dream House to, frankly, awful reviews.

Rotten Tomatoes currently has the film with a 6 percent rating, which has to be as low as we’ve seen the critic aggregation site go in quite some time.

In that effort, Weisz and Craig were a couple, who move their kids into a house where the former residents were victims of a brutal crime. The film was plagued by misleading advertising and a story that Entertainment Weekly called “a convoluted mess.”

Betrayal has come more highly regarded in its 35 years of performance and plays closer to slice-of-life than the previous project. The story explored a fragile relationship between a husband and wife haunted by adultery.

Its structure, The NY Times noted, follows a reverse chronological order, beginning in 1977 and ending close to a decade earlier.

Craig previously starred in the 2009 Broadway production of A Steady Rain opposite Hugh Jackman. This will be Weisz’s first time on the venue, but not on stage.

In 2001, she starred in The Shape of Things off-Broadway and recently took on A Streetcar Named Desire in a London production.

What do you think of the Broadway pairing of Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig — worth the trip to New York or not? Check out the Dream House trailer below for a taste of how they play together.

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