Playboy's 20Q: Rachel Weisz

Playboy's 20Q: Rachel Weisz1Playboy: Please explain your intense interest in Harry Houdini.Weisz: He was one of the earliest socially acceptable images of S&M—bound and chained—standing there in pain but with a triumphant look on his face. That's not why I'm drawn to him. I just love the showmanship, that no prison, no chain could hold him. The art of illusion and, in general, escapology is fascinating. Houdini's last name originally was Weisz and he was Hungarian. My dad is Hungarian—my secret...