In their new film Disobedience, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams take part in a sensual bedroom frolic.

“Disobedience” is about illicit intimacy between two women in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of London, not far from Weisz’s childhood home.

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“They’re a very private community,” Weisz said, “so I never spoke to them, and they wouldn’t have been interested in speaking to me. I think there’s a great mystery around their world.”

The star of ‘Disobedience’ says that her chosen profession allows her to escape who she is.

Weisz told CBS’ Sunday Morning, “I think acting is a kind of escapism from who you are. But it’s also anthropology. Like, I would love to interview you! I would love to ask you all the questions about your childhood. I have a real curiosity.”

Meanwhile, the 48-year-old actress wishes to “take more risks” in her professional life.

“I don’t really feel that risky,” she said. “I feel I have got to be more risky. I’ve decided now I intend to take more risks.’’

Rachel was in an on-screen lesbian relationship in her most recent film, and she describes the experience of sharing intimate scenes with another woman as “lovely.”

She went on to say: “I’m always spending time with men in fictions, so for me it was just really unusual and lovely. As a woman, you’re often the object of the man’s desire, or he’s the object of yours, but I felt like there was something just so different about the female gaze.”

Rachel McAdams, her co-star, agreed that it was a very different experience for her. “Energetically, it was very different,” she said. “We had great communication, and there was a very vulnerable, open, gentle, intelligent feeling to everything. We talked about the safety of it as well, doing a love scene. That was a very different love scene than I’ve ever done before, and it was the most kind of raw and vulnerable love-making scene I’ve ever done. And yet at the same time, I felt incredibly safe and cared for and free to explore.’’

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The stars worked closely with their director Seabastián Lelio to choreograph it, and despite the fact that it was racy, all three agreed that there would be no nudity because it was not necessary to the tale.

“Disobedience” is the title of the novel that inspired the film, which was also produced by Weisz. But, as a self-described outcast who was expelled from her exclusive high school, disobedience could as well be the theme of Weisz’s life.

“My mother always used to say, ‘You were asked to leave,'” Weisz recalled.

“How British! Why were you asked to leave?”