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Like all good things, the cinematic oeuvre ofRachel Weiszhas only gotten gayer over time.
Here are five performances that show Weiszs decades-long ascent to queer perfection.
Spoilers ahead for the full plot ofDead Ringers.
.Who is she?
she says to adventurer Rick OConnell (Brendan Fraser).
Librariansthroughout film historyhave often been lesbian-coded unmarried, uninterested in men, buttoning up their shirtsall the way.
!, clutching her purse nervously to her chest and screaming at the sight of her should-be husband.
Is she notably not married?Evelyn is extremely single.
How is she further gay-coded?She saves himbo Brendan Fraser from near death.
She says, What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?
She has short curly bangs.
How is she straight-coded?She gives birth to a blond child with attitude problems.
She rides a horse side-saddle.
She has extremely thin eyebrows.
.Who falls in love with her?
Hot, dumb, big-boy adventurer Rick OConnell.
Does she eventually have queer sex with her love interest?Nobody has any sex in these films.
.How gay areThe MummyandThe Mummy Returns?
Its in the details: Evelyn unleashes a creature we have feared for more than 3,000 years.
Women read books to the point of neglecting to get married.
Grown men argue over a gold bracelet.
For some reason, Will takes this as an opportunity to detail his entire sexual history to a 10-year-old.
Is she described in a way that implies she is a mysterious bitch?Yes.
Will describes her as: Heartbreaker.
Kevin Kline says she is rapaciously ambitious, which is rom-com code for bitch.
Is her job gay?Im writing these really dumb items forNew YorkMagazine, waiting for my big break.
I never really did.
You were about the closest I got.
(I always wanted to be an actress who sang on Broadway, she explains.)
Everyone she meets, including Emily and Hampton and, yes, Will.
Does she love them back?All of them, yes.
.How gay isDefinitely, Maybe?
Is her job gay?She photographs people with tattoos while making intense eye contact.
Is she notably not married?And youre not married!
says one of her family members in the middle of dinner.
She also tells her family members, Perhaps people should stop having so many children!
She lives in an attic.
She sleeps on a bench in an airport, no problem.
How is she straight-coded?She has not really been with other women since a teenage love affair.
Esti, her childhood best friend and onetime lesbian lover played by Rachel McAdams.
In the head, Esti says.What happened to you?
YOU happened to me!!!
Esti is carrying Dovids baby and wants to forge her own path.
.How gay isDisobedience?
The entire movie is about how gay these two women are and how compulsory heterosexuality ruins lives.
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the queens adviser and longtime secret lover.
How is she further gay-coded?She tells the queen she looks like a badger.
She tells a male adviser, Your mascara is running.
If youd like to fix yourself, we can continue this later.
She fucks the queen.
She attempts to raise taxes nationally.
Queen Anne, who has loved her since childhood.
I think she loves the queen, Weisz told me in an interviewa few years ago.
But she also loves England.
.How gay isThe Favourite?
Men throw oranges at other, more naked men.
Abigail hits herself in the head with a book.
Sarah slaps Abigail across the face.
Abigail marries a man (Joe Alwyn), then ignores him.
Sarah is dragged through the forest by a horse while wearing menswear.
They plan on raising a child together and swap identities so that fuck each others patients.
The show follows their slow descent into psychosexual madness.
But before that, the twins do a lot of fun queer shit.
Their own father calls them awful girls; their mother tells Beverly she will be a terrible mother.
Is she notably not married?The twins are both single and treat sex like a hobby.
Are men in this film essentially obsolete?The all-female writers room forgot to write men into the show.
After the assisted suicide, Elliot takes on Beverlys life and personality.
There was always supposed to be one of us, they agree.
