Rachel Weisz: 'I was expelled from school because I hated authority'

Rachel Weisz has revealed that she was expelled from school as a teenager for disturbing her class too often.

The Deep Blue Sea actress confessed that she struggled with authority and found it hard to cope at her first all-girls school.

"I was asked to leave London Collegiate, but my mum doesn't like me to say I was expelled. I didn't try to burn down the school or anything like that; it was just anti-authority issues," Weisz explained to Stella magazine.

"I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, to put it mildly."

While Weisz went on to study at London's St Paul's all-girls school and Cambridge University, she has said that even a change of schools was not enough to clear up her behavioural problems.

"I was very nearly asked to leave that school, too, for ongoing disobedience - the French teacher refused to teach me - but Miss Gough, who later became headmistress, completely inspired me. She saw through me and she scared me and I guess none of the other teachers did that," she explained.

Weisz, who is married to James Bond star Daniel Craig, recently admitted that she still feels like a "blushing bride".