Rachel Weisz Talks Filming Lesbian Sex in ‘Disobedience’: Sebastián Lelio ‘Doesn’t Objectify, He Subjectifies’

When Rachel Weisz saw Sebastián Lelio’s film 2013 “Gloria,” about a 58-year-old woman’s sexual re-awakening, she knew she could trust the Chilean director with “Disobedience.” It was Weisz who approached author Naomi Alderman about adapting her eponymous novel for the screen, about Ronit (Weisz), a woman who rekindles a teenage affair with Esti, a woman from her Orthodox Jewish community.

Ronit returns home after the death of her rabbi father, having left her religious life behind years ago.

Her childhood best friend, Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), welcomes her cautiously, and she discovers he is married to Esti (Rachel McAdams).In the film, the tension between the two women is palpable the minute they lay eyes on each other, though their story unfolds at a delicate pace.

Surprisingly, it is Esti who makes the first move, catching Ronit off guard.

In the scene which Lelio calls “the heart of the film … the deepest layer,

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