{"id":293723,"date":"2026-02-12T06:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293723\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:35:09","slug":"leo-woodall-rachel-weisz-collide-in-steamy-vladimir-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293723\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Woodall & Rachel Weisz Collide In Steamy Vladimir Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the great ‘sex on screen’ debate continues to get folks online all hot and bothered, there’s been no shortage of movies and shows steaming up our screens recently \u2014 from Heated Rivalry and Bridgerton<\/a> Season 4 to Wuthering Heights<\/a> and Pillion<\/a>. And now, courtesy of Netflix, prepare to get flustered all over again by Vladimir, a darkly comic new limited series in which Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall \u2014 two of the both figurative and literal hottest stars on the planet \u2014 play a married professor and the young new colleague she is pining for. Fans at the ready before you watch the trailer below;<\/p>\n

Giggling glances, furtive touches, marital unrest, dangerous extracurricular liaisons… it sure looks like all of Rachel Weisz’s hot under the collar college professor’s dreams are coming true in this first trailer for Vladimir. Or are they? Y’see, while there’s some serious chemistry between Weisz’s teacher and Woodall’s charming faculty newcomer in Julia May Jonas’ adaptation of her own best-selling novel, it’s not 100% certain if what we’re seeing is what’s really happening. The Fleabag reminiscent fourth wall breaks, playful cutting, and stray comments from Weisz certainly hint that the lines between fantasy and reality are about to get real blurred.”I just wanted to be sure you were here in the flesh,” Weisz’s nameless protagonist tells Vladimir as she grabs his arm and we glimpse something more compromising. “As opposed to what?” he replies. “Oh… in my dreams,” she tosses back with an ever-so-slight hint of crazy behind the eyes. Consider the tone dutifully set!<\/p>\n

The official synopsis for the series \u2014 which elsewhere stars John Slattery, Ellen Robertson and Jessica Henwick \u2014 reads: “Vladimir follows an unnamed, middle-aged protagonist (Weisz) who is a writer, professor, wife, and mom. As her life unravels, she becomes obsessed with a captivating new colleague, the eponymous Vladimir, at the small liberal arts college where she\u2019s worked for decades.”<\/p>\n

Per Netflix’s own marketing, Vladimir (which, in case you hadn’t surmised, is so titled as a subversive jab at Vladimir Nobokov and his icky literary classic Lolita) promises a *cough* romp filled with “sexy secrets, dark humor, and complex characters.” We’ll see whether it can deliver \u2014 and if Weisz’s fantasies come true \u2014 when Jonas’ series drops on Netflix on 5 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the great ‘sex on screen’ debate continues to get folks online all hot and bothered, there’s been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-293723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}