Rachel Weisz's scandalous new Netflix series is her raunchiest role yet as the actress is seen performing very X-rated sex scenes with actor Leo Woodall.
The limited series sees Rachel, 55, star as unnamed university professor M, who has a growing obsession with her younger colleague Vladimir, played by the White Lotus actor.
M is seen fantasising about getting intimate with Vladimir throughout the series - even performing a sex act on herself in the second episode.
She acts out her fantasies on her husband John (John Slattery), who is suspended from work for sleeping with his students.
The husband and wife characters are seen having sex in a cupboard and getting down and dirty at their dining room table.
But viewers have to wait until the series finale to see M romp with Vladimir in real life -with the reality a stark contrast from her scandalous fantasies as she remains fully clothed and the pair have sex in bed.
Vladimir is based on the novel of the same name by Julia May Jonas, which follows the story of a professor whose husband is under investigation for inappropriate relationships with younger students.
An official synopsis of the series, which hit screens earlier this week, teased: 'When a passionate but reckless professor's world begins to unravel, she finds herself dangerously fixated on her magnetic new colleague.
'As boundaries blur and secrets simmer, she'll risk everything to bring her most scandalous fantasies to life.'
Viewers hit out with one big complaint just minutes into the first episode of the Netflix series, as they heaped praise on 'absolutely unhinged' show star Rachel.
The opening scene sees Rachel speaking directly down the lens as she introduces her character, M, to viewers - who were sent wild by the action.
'It has recently come to my attention that I may never again have power over another human being,' she says. 'My students who once fell over themselves to impress me now consider my teachings out of touch.
'My daughter, who used to worship me, now finds my entire personhood rather useless, and while it may be possible that a man might make a concession for me, I may not be the cause of a spontaneous erection ever again.'
'As an older woman, truly what is more embarrassing, I will have lost the ability to captivate...' she adds, as the camera pans to Leo as Vladimir, slumped over and tied to a chair.
'I find this very sad, don't you?' Rachel concludes, as Leo's character can be heard calling out from inside the building as she lights up a cigarette outside.
Netflix posted the clip to their official X, formerly Twitter, page, saying: 'The opening scene of VLADIMIR is just a taste of the absolutely unhinged performance Rachel Weisz is giving in this new limited series.'
While fans were wowed by her performance, a number of fans admitted they had a complaint just minutes into the new series - after the star's character lamented about 'losing the ability to captivate'.
One penned on X: 'Rachel Weisz staring at the camera and lamenting how she's not hot anymore, and I don't know who the fk thought this concept would have credibility when she was cast...'
Another chimed in: 'Age jokes are lame,' as a third wrote: 'She is so f*king fine?!'
Elsewhere, Slate critic Rebecca Onion added: 'Rachel Weisz is, I'm sorry to say, simply too pretty for this.'
However The Daily Mail's critic Deborah Ross disagreed, giving the series a five-star rating, calling it a 'spellbinding, sexually-charged romp' and 'the best performance of Rachel Weisz's career'.
She wrote: 'Vladimir is a darkly comic exploration of desire, told in eight snappy episodes (each under 30 minutes), that is so sly and incisive and delicious I wish I hadn't seen it so I could come new to it again.
'As for its star, Rachel Weisz, this may be the best she has ever been.
'You will, I swear, be mesmerised, spellbound, transfixed, plus all the other synonyms in the thesaurus that could equally be deployed. (Riveted, that's another one).'
Vladimir is available to stream on Netflix now