![]() Rachel, you said this film had a profound effect on you when you first saw it as a teenager. I don’t know if he’s had time to watch it because he’s prepping his new film, but I hope he’ll see it. I emailed him when it was all finished and said, “Would you be interested to see the show?” He said, “Yes I would, send it to me.” So we’ve sent it to him. Rachel Weisz: Yes, Morgan Creek gave Annapurna and us the rights to make it. I read that David Cronenberg gave his permission and no notes, paving the way for you to create your own version of Dead Ringers. “We might have felt confident which twin we were watching but then, did we?” asks Birch, saying the ending searches for something “quite unsettling.” Weisz adds to THR: “Ultimately, the audience is involved in the whole twin swap: Which one do I have here?”īelow, in a recent conversation together with THR, Birch and Weisz discuss why they wanted to tackle the Dead Ringers adaptation with two female gynecologists and the maternal healthcare conversations it raises with horror and dark comedy, while also unpacking the twin swap ending, mid-credits reveal and where “Beverly” Mantle goes after that park bench. And that’s where Birch’s writing and Weisz’s performance begs the question. But then there’s the reveal in the mid-credits scene - when Elliot, posing as Beverly, is told by a stranger in the park that Beverly had been visiting a grief group to discuss her dead sister for years. Elliot then assumes her sister’s identity and sets out to live Beverly’s life as a groundbreaking doctor and new mom, with girlfriend Genevieve (Britne Oldford), to identical newborn daughters. One explanation is that Elliot helps Beverly to end her life by cutting out Beverly’s twin babies, leaves her for dead on the operating table and enlists her lab partner (Michael Chernus) to cover it up. Then comes an ending open to interpretation. But it definitely felt that it needed to be a sacrifice for both of them.” “It was quite fundamental to Beverly’s character that she’s trying really hard to be happy and content, but it’s too difficult. “I knew that was where it was ending up,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. What happens next is what Birch describes as the final twin swap, an ending that differs from the film’s and one the series creator says she was marching towards ever since Weisz approached her to write the adaptation, their Dead Ringers rebirth. There was only ever supposed to be one of us. I’ve tried so hard, and I’ve got as close as I think I could get.” When Elliot tells Beverly she can’t live without her, Beverly says, “You don’t have to. While publicly described in the finale’s exposé headline as “Abusive Negligent Destructive Murderous? and Brilliant,” the ending to Alice Birch’s adaptation sees the twins privately coming back to one another, with Beverly telling her more dominant sister, “I don’t think I’m capable of happiness. Critics' Conversation: In the Shadow of 'Succession,' a TV Spring Full of Risks and Rewards
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