Rachel Weisz descends into "sexy madness" in Netflix's Vladimir trailer

With lots of fourth wall-breaking asides to camera, Weisz's character's obsessions are front and center in the Vladimir trailer.

By William Hughes  |  February 11, 2026 | 9:48pm
Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall in Vladimir, Photo: Netflix
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Rachel Weisz descends into

Rachel Weisz is headed back down into the ol’ psychosexual drama mines, as Netflix released a new trailer for the Oscar winner’s upcoming series Vladimir. Weisz—who most recently starred on TV opposite herself in Prime Video’s adaptation of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers—stars in the series as an unnamed English professor whose life falls into chaos when her husband (John Slattery) is accused of sexual indiscretions by his former students. Feeling so run down that she can’t even draw a basic acknowledgement of her existence from go-to-television schlub Matt Walsh, Weisz’s character suddenly finds herself reinvigorated when she catches the eye of new teacher Vladimir, played by Leo Woodall.

Watching the trailer, Vladimir—based off the 2023 novel of the same name by Julia May Jonas—makes it clear what basic kind of show it’s going to be at pretty much the exact moment Weisz looks directly at the camera and starts addressing the audience like her co-conspirators in her plan to bone down. Not to say that this thing is going to go full “descent into unreliable narrator madness,” but we do get multiple scenes were even the character seems to be unclear on whether she’s hallucinating her fantasy moments with her newfound crush. (Also, Netflix’s own press outlet, Tudum, describes the character’s state as “sexy madness,” while Weisz herself suggests her character is lying to the camera, so this is probably going to be quite a bit more twisted than its basic premise might suggest.)

Vladimir is being billed as a limited series. It’s set to debut on Netflix on March 5.

 
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