A new face in Hollywood, Ayelet Zurer is one of the most acclaimed actresses in Israel.
She plays a strong woman not by showing off superhero skills but by being smart and subtle.
To be a strong woman, one has to know how to kick butt with the high kick of a Vegas dancer, wisecrack menacingly and wriggle seductively with the look-at-me panache of a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. ¶ That would be the wisdom espoused by the Hollywood blockbuster -- movies of the "Charlie's Angels" and "Transformers" variety. ¶ Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer subscribes to a more complicated, multidimensional vision of female strength, which the actress is bringing to her first Hollywood would-be blockbuster, Ron Howard's "Angels & Demons," opening Friday. ¶ The 39-year-old, sometimes referred to in the press as the Julia Roberts of Israel, first burst into American consciousness four years ago as the luminously beautiful pregnant wife of the Israeli terrorist-hunter portrayed by Eric Bana in Steven Spielberg's "Munich," then turned around to play a fierce, seductive terrorist herself in the fun "Rashomon"-type thriller "Vantage Point." ¶ Now Zurer steps up as Tom Hanks' brainy cohort in the follow-up to Howard's "The Da Vinci Code." This ruthlessly efficient, beautifully designed film could also be called "24, the Papal Edition," down to the time-stamps that appear on-screen every 10 minutes or so. Again, Hanks dons the role as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, albeit with fewer pounds and better hair than last time.Zurer takes on the truth-seeking Italian physicist Vittoria Vetra. The plot revolves around a secret society of vengeful intellectuals, the Illuminati, who want to get back at the science-scorning Catholic Church of history by killing cardinals every hour on the hour and planting under Vatican City an explosive canister of anti-matter, which Langdon must find and dispose of within 24 hours with Vetra's help.
According to Howard, Zurer beat out eight other actresses who also had screen-tested with Hanks. "There's something very unself-conscious and honest and earthy about Ayelet," says Howard, "and yet she has the capacity to deal with the scientific jargon in a way that felt honest and she felt comfortable with it."
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