We Are All Kathryn Hahn Swooning Over Rachel Weisz to the Carol Score

A viral video aimed at lesbian and bisexual women's collective obsession with Weisz is layered with queer allusions.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

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April 01 2019 2:11 PM EST

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With her roles in Disobedience and The Favourite, in 2018 Rachel Weisz became the subject of many think pieces and one not entirely satirical piece about queer women wanting her to top them. The obsession only became more intense when Weisz appeared at the Oscars wearing a latex gown.

Now an enterprising Twitter user has gone viral with a video that combines Weisz's appeal with that of Carol -- the 2015 Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara starrer about a '50s-era New Jersey socialite and a shopgirl who fall hard and enter into an illicit affair. And Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy approves of the mashup that features Kathryn Hahn (Transparent, Bad Moms) appearing smitten with Weisz during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable discussion.

When one Twitter user wrote to Nagy, "I'm sure you approve," she replied that she did.

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Video of THR's roundtable, which also includes Lady Gaga and Glenn Close, has been out for several months leading up to this year's awards season, but Twitter user Miss Meri slowed down the video and muted the sound of Weisz speaking before laying down Carter Burwell's soundtrack for Carol over it. The effect is reminiscent of the scene in Carol in which the protagonists drive through the Lincoln Tunnel together with the dialogue muted and Burwell's score swelling as they ostensibly realize their deep mutual attraction.