The actress spent the better part of 2001 performing in New York and London in The Shape of Things, a relationship play by Neil LaBute (In the Company Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, Happiness) -- in a role she originated and which she reprises in a forthcoming screen adaptation that she also coproduced with LaBute.

"Right now I'm in a real film mood," says Weisz, who plans to buy a home in New York City in 2003 but who has been living in Los Angeles while making Confidence, "a contemporary gangster, grifter movie" in which she's the only woman in a cast including Ed Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia.

"Theater I understand a lot better; film is a lot more mysterious for me, and I need to get a handle on film acting. I will always go back to theater. But I did [The Shape of Things] for almost a year in total -- that's a long time. So I'm really film hungry now."

In addition to The Shape of Things and Confidence, the actress will turn up onscreen in the low-budget Marlowe, a biopic on the life of the English playwright Christopher Marlowe, costarring Jude Law as William Shakespeare. "It's dirty as hell. A real antidote to Shakespeare in Love," she says wryly. The actress also lets slip that there has been some talk about another installment of The Mummy franchise, which she would likely opt to do, and that she is interested in a romantic comedy script but in search of a funny American man with whom to match wits.