International Development: Actress shocked at African poverty

Actress Rachel Weisz has said yet again that she was deeply moved by the impoverished conditions she saw in Kenya while making her latest film.

In an interview in Sunday's edition of the Orange County Register, she told the reporter: "I had never seen poverty like that...It was extreme and tragic, and I felt a wave of guilt being a wealthy white Westerner walking through those slums filming a movie."

Call me a cynical old bastard but she has been saying the same thing for the last month. In fact, it is only since she started making the movie that she seems to have mentioned poverty.

"The Constant Gardener," is about the wife of a British diplomat stationed in Kenya who accuses the pharmaceutical industry of exploiting developing nations.