It's not as crazy as the scene in Prometheus where Noomi Rapace's character performs surgery on herself, but things do get kind of weird for the Swedish actress midway into the new trailer for Passion. Then again, the upcoming movie has suspense maestro Brian De Palma at the helm, so what else can you expect?
The teaser hyping Passion's debut at the Toronto International Film Festival next month shows Rapace, the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, opposite Rachel McAdams, who was last seen on-screen when her character got poisoned in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Here, McAdams plays a manipulative executive who appears to dig freaky masked lesbian sex. "Come closer," she says. "Now kiss me." But does she really mean it?
When he's not making big action flicks like Mission: Impossible or crime dramas like Scarface, De Palma has exhibited an obsession for women-in-jeopardy scenarios dating all the way back to the classic 1976 blood shower inflicted during Carrie.
No matter the story particulars – and in the case of Passion, plot points revolve around corporate betrayal – De Palma invariably pulls the strings in a way that makes it clear: Any minute now, things are going to go terribly, terribly wrong.
