IN 1988, DAVID CRONENBERG unleashed Dead Ringers into cinemas; a dark, twisted tale of codependent twins that set back women’s trust in gynaecology a few decades. It’s since become a classic in his varied and strange body of work, earning many high profile admirers, including actor Rachel Weisz.
About four years ago, Weisz was looking for a project with a complex female relationship at the centre of it and thought about how gender-flipping the twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle in would turn, ) to develop it into a six-episode limited series.
