Rachel Weisz Explains Why Taking Advice Never Works

(Intro sound)

[Interviewer] I wanna ask you what you remember

on Oscar night when you won for Best Supporting Actress

for The Constant Gardener?

I'd never been to the Academy Awards,

so it was my first time,

so I was a virgin in every sense.

I remember my unborn child in my belly.

'Cause I think I was eight months pregnant.

Where do you keep your Oscar?

My son called it, when he was very little, the medal.

I guess because it was so golden,

so it's actually in his room. It's in my son's room.

Is there advice you would've given to, like,

your ten year old self?

The thing about advice, in my experience,

it has always been meaningless.

The only thing that's ever worked for me

is to have an experience and to fall over,

scrape my knees, fail, and then get insight

through my failures.

I've been talking about Youth since I saw it,

what was it for you that made you wanna do it?

I think the best thing about Youth is not having fear.

Just being fearless, and the freedom that comes

from fearlessness.

But the thing is when you're young,

well I speak for myself,

I didn't know anything.

I was fearless because I was an idiot.

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And what's wonderful about this film,

it's about finding that feeling of youth,

of fearlessness,

of being able to jump into the unknown of being

excited about the future but having it when you're older.

Michael Caine's character rediscovers his youth at 82,

and what that means is that he suddenly has a bright future.

Anybody that knows you really well,

what would they say is your most annoying habit?

Changing my mind about things,

and I would say, I'm just, you know I'm in the flow.

Life changes from minute to minute,

but they would so no, you're a pain in the ass

to change your mind.

I thought we were going here today.

It's like, let's do something else.