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Oct 3, 2003
Nicole And Renee Stick Together
Nicole Kidman is so fond of her Cold Mountain co-star Renee Zellweger, she's even given her the adorable nickname Tweety.
The A-list duo joined Jude Law and Renee's current beau Jack White on the hotly-tipped new movie, and Kidman found she'd made a real friend in Renee.
She gushes, "She's so loose, you know? She'll try anything, and she's just easy to be around. And she has the most adorable lips in the world! She has such a great face, like Tweety Pie. That's what I'd call her - Tweety.
"It's a crazy world out there. So I said to Renee, 'I'm here for you any time. You can call me if it gets too much.'
"And she offered me the same, because we're both kind of alone in the industry."
'Stepford' Director Demands Perfection
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - For those on the set of Nicole Kidman's new movie, "The Stepford Wives," life has been less than perfect. Unlike the lives of perfection they are supposed to be portraying, the cast and crew have had their share of petty arguments, according to industry reports.
Kidman, Bette Midler, Glenn Close and Christopher Walken star in the remake of the 1975 thriller that starred Katherine Ross.
Frank Oz, who is helming the project, confessed that tensions are high.
Oz, also known for voicing Yoda, Miss Piggy and Bert on "Sesame Street," insists that all is Kool and the Gang.
Responding to reports he had clashed with Midler and Walken, Oz says, "Tension on the set? Absolutely! In every movie I do; there's tension. That's the whole point. And working people hard, that's exactly what they expect me to do."
Oz began his career alongside Jim Henson in the late 60's. He went on to become one of the most well-respected directors in the business.
He directed "What About Bob?" "In and Out," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "Housesitter," and "Bowfinger" to name a few.
Oz is somewhat of an expert at managing difficult on-set situations. During shooting for his 2001 picture "The Score," Marlon Brando refused to take direction from Oz, insisting co-star Robert DeNiro direct his scenes. But then Brandon is infamous for being difficult on the set.
Of the reports that he has "had words" with Walken, Oz says, ""Sure, but I've had words with other actors, and then at the end of the day Chris was fantastic. This is like kids fighting for turf and then they're friends again."
Nicole Kidman: Age Doesn't Matter
Screen beauty Nicole Kidman would have no qualms dating an much older man, like her character in new movie Human Stain.
The Oscar-winner 65-year-old Anthony Hopkins on-screen lover in the movie.
And Nicole insists age wouldn't be a barrier for her in real life either.
She says, "I've never been one to think that age matters.
"Be it a 70-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman or a 70-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man, they should be allowed to have a connection.
"There's a huge age difference in this relationship. In the film Anthony Hopkins says to me, 'This is not the first love, or my great love, but my last love.'
"I'm very proud to play complicated women in different kinds of relationships."
Attack scene dogs Nicole
NICOLE Kidman has been left so disturbed by scenes in her film Dogville that she is unable to watch them.
She plays a character who is raped and turned into a sex slave while hiding out from the Mob in a small Colorado town.
Like you do.
But the scenes were so realistic that Kidman, 36, was left badly bruised by Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard, who plays the rapist. They were so awful she couldn't bring herself to sit through the final cut and walked out of a special screening.
"It was hard watching it," she said. "The screen was huge, and the sound and the extremeness of the situation. I was sitting there watching, and I thought, 'This is too exposing', so I left.'
The Oscar-winner portrays a mysterious woman called Grace whose is forced into captivity wearing an iron collar.
That's enough for us.
Posted at 08:20 pm by iscah88
Sep 25, 2003
The Human Stain:
The Nicole Kidman/Anthony Hopkins has been pushed back nearly a month - abandoning the platform release in favour of a wide opening on Halloween.
Plenty of extras for Stepford Wives movie
NORWALK, Conn. -- They arrived by the hundreds, the women generally tall, blond and attractive, the men somewhat shorter and average looking.
This wealthy region had no trouble attracting extras for the remake of "The Stepford Wives," which is being filmed around Fairfield County and stars actress Nicole Kidman. More than 2,000 men and women showed up this week in New Canaan and Norwalk to audition as extras for the classic film, in which the men in a seemingly perfect town find a way to turn their spouses into beautiful, compliant housebound robots.
"Women are somewhat robotic in suburban Connecticut, with all the trophy wives," said Beth Anderson, a slim 29-year-old mother of two who was in line.
The crew was looking for a specific type of extra for an outdoor scene being shot in New Canaan. Women had to be between 20 to 40 years old, 5-foot-8 or taller and pretty, while men needed to be between 30 to 40 years old, 5-foot-8 or shorter and average looking.
Anne Nolte, a 29-year-old Weston resident, appeared to fit the part. She is nearly 6 feet tall and wore a black cocktail dress and pink cashmere sweater that set off her dark blond hair and had an Yves St. Laurent handbag.
Nolte, the wife of an investment banker, had never seen the movie or read the book, but knew enough about the plot to take it in stride.
"You've always heard the term bandied about," she said.
Poised near the entrance to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion in Norwalk in a sleek black dress, her blond hair in waves, Kate Kelly-Naylor said she had a definite advantage over the others.
"I am a Stepford wife," the 49-year-old Westport resident joked. "It is a negative connotation, but we're spoofing on it."
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Sep 13, 2003
Was the whole Lenny Kravitz thing a sham? Jude and Nic have been at it again, spotted this week in New York doing what celebs do, trying to avoid being recognised. Staff at the exclusive Carlyle Hotel were amazed when a taxi pulled up outside and a lanky ginger giraffe climbed out - could it be Nicole Kidman? 'Yes it was,' an obliging doorman affirmed. 'That's who just arrived.' Within half an hour Jude Law was there too, dashing in with two bags and returning to his limo for two more. Surely not a long stay?
Nope, just a quickie. At midnight, Nic's minder was outside the hotel and spent an hour checking every car in the street for cameras. All clear, the actress was out, swathed in a large coat and away. Paparazzi got the shot anyway, naturally. Jude slept in and left the next day at 1pm. Now Sadie Frost has instigated divorce proceedings, does this mean the love that dare not speak its name - and sues if anyone else does - can finally own up?
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Nicole Kidman looks set to sign up for Steven Spielberg's latest production, The Rivals, playing legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt. The story will centre around Bernhardt's rivalry with Italian actress Eleonara Duse, and the fact they would often appear in the same plays, on the same night, in the same cities, and that professional politics soon became personal over shared lovers. Kidman is set to make the film next year once she has finished playing Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, Olympia, in Baz Luhrmann's Alexander the Great.
Nicole has been a busy lady since her split from pint-sized actor Tom Cruise. She stars in the eagerly anticipated Cold Mountain alongside Jude Law and Renee Zellweger and will also be seen in the controversial flick The Human Stain with Anthony Hopkins. The Oscar winner recently admitted that she tries to pull out of films she has committed to out of fear but the lure of the Spielberg magic has proved too much and she has given him her word. No word as to who will play Eleanora - Penelope Cruz perhaps?
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Nicole Kidman
The stunning Nicole Kidman was in New York Wednesday night, but it was a serious theme that took center stage. Gary Sinise and Anthony Hopkins costar in "The Human Stain," a story about an abused woman who falls for an older man.
Nicole told "Extra" that playing a battered woman presented her with a difficult challenge. She says, "It’s difficult in the sense that you want to honor women who have been through a situation like this, and you want to protect the way in which she's presented."
The emotional thriller brought out Juliana Margulies, Jacinda Barrett, and hoops star Rick Fox. Even David Copperfield sensed magic in the movie.
Hopkins told "Extra" this weekend that he is proud that "The Human Stain" is a throwback to good old-fashioned movie making. Hopkins says, "As they say in Hollywood, it is a character-driven movie. Whatever that means. It’s a good story with powerful themes."
Hopkins and Kidman strike up a heated love match in the film, and Nicole admitted she couldn't have asked for a better partner. She says, "He’s wonderful. I think he's wonderful. It was so good to be able to work with him. He's one of the great actors."
"The Human Stain" is in theatres beginning October 3rd.
Kidman's kids' complicated life
Nicole Kidman says she feels guilty about the way her children are being brought up.
Kidman adopted two children, Isabella, 11, and Conor, eight, with her former husband Tom Cruise during their 10-year marriage.
Since the couple divorced in 2001, the children divide their time between both parents' Los Angeles homes and Kidman's second home in Australia.
"My kids come to the film sets and they give their opinion in terms of the different characters I play," the Oscar winner said at the Toronto Film Festival.
"They have a complicated life, and it's something I feel guilty for."
Kidman, who was promoting her latest movie The Human Stain, said there were limits to what the children were allowed to see on set.
"With Human Stain I wouldn't have them around during a sex scene," she said.
However while Kidman may feel guilt over her children's lifestyle, it has not put one of them off.
Kidman, 36, said one of the children - she would not say which one - wanted to pursue an acting career, while the other one "couldn't think of anything worse".
Kidman stands tall
LIKE a young Marlene Dietrich, Nicole Kidman stepped out in New York yesterday in an androgynous tailored suit with another fashion and acting icon by her side - Lauren Bacall.
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The pair caused a frenzy on the red carpet when they arrived for the New York premiere of Kidman's latest film The Human Stain.
The Hollywood stars have made two movies together, both of which will be released here next year - the Lars von Trier arthouse film Dogville and the mystery drama Birth, in which Bacall plays Kidman's mother.
Bacall, who turns 79 next week, and 36-year-old Kidman, have many things in common, including their love of acting and fashion.
In June, Kidman received the 2003 Fashion Icon Award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
At the time, CFDA executive director Peter Arnold said: "Nicole Kidman's style has had an undeniable impact on fashion.
"As an actress, she has developed her many memorable characters with an innate understanding of the artistry of clothes. At the same time, she has elegantly established her personal style and own iconic presence worldwide."
Previous winners of the prestigious fashion award include Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and, of course, Bacall. Bacall entered the movie industry after a film director's wife convinced her to take a screen test.
Just 19, she starred in To Have and Have Not, opposite screen legend Humphrey Bogart. It would be the first of many films the pair would make together before marrying in 1945.
Consistently voted one of the world's sexiest women, Bacall began a stage career after the death of Bogart in 1957, winning prestigious Tony awards for her appearances in Applause and Woman of the Year.
But one thing sets them apart. Unlike Kidman, who was named best actress at this year's Academy Awards, Bacall, who is one of Hollywood's most acclaimed actors, has never won an Oscar.
  
Nicole Kidman / "The Human Stain", "In the Cut" & "Dogville"
Interview by Paul Fischer at the Toronto Film Festival
Nicole Kidman retains a quiet elegance that has been her trademark for a decade. Delicately putting on her glasses [“I really can’t see without them”], Kidman is a tad shy, maybe a sign of exhaustion. Amidst the chaos and non-stop energy of the Toronto Film Festival, Kidman has not one but three films screening, including In the Cut, which she produced. In between shooting The Stepford Wives, Kidman has become one of Hollywood’s busiest actors, with Cold Mountain still due to hit theatres later this year. Workaholic? Maybe, but the Oscar winner Australian doesn’t feel that she is driven to work as hard as she does. “I suppose it doesn’t really feel like work to me,” Kidman says, pausing slightly. “It doesn’t feel like a drive, but more like I’ve had these opportunities. It’s odd, because I made Dogville at the beginning of last year, which was a five-week shoot, and Human Stain was a short shoot for me before I made Cold Mountain. But everyone seems to talk about film making as work, but I don’t see it as work”, she says with a slight laugh. Rather, she insists, she sees it as something she “loves to do that’s an artistic expression, that’s more about the joy of being asked to play these roles, with extraordinary directors. Acting, for me, is not a business, but trying to make pieces of art that I believe in, that I feel proud of and the journey. There’s no drive behind it but an acceptance of what my life is.” That life, she says, is that of an actress “and somebody who ABSOLUTELY loves what they do and would it whether you’d pay me or not, because I’m dedicated to it.”
Kidman’s dedication is apparent in the films in which she stars, Dogville and The Human Stain. It’s the latter that has caused much discussion, in which a sometimes nude and seductive Kidman falls for a 70-year old former professor, played by Anthony Hopkins. Eyebrows may indeed be raised at the sight of the 36-year old beauty lusting after the much older Hopkins, but Kidman shrugs off the criticism, admitting that age doesn’t really matter. "The reason people are drawn together, the reason people choose each other, we never know."
Kidman even admits that without all the exterior forces working against them, the relationship of the two characters in The Human Stain definitely could have worked, even though both people were so emotionally damaged. "The different people that enter into your life at different times, they enter into it, because you allow them, they enter because of timing, they enter because of a connection between two people, not the way in which their bodies look."
She says people who operate on strictly physical level probably have very superficial relationships that don't stand a chance. "A 70-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, a 25-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman, bring it on! It doesn't matter,” she exclaims, laughing loudly in the process.
She also dismissed questions about whether she can be believable as a janitor and a farmhand, which is what her strangely mysterious character does in The Human Stain. "I cleaned toilets when I was an usherette in Sydney and my hands got very dirty. Whether you believe me or not, I tried to do the best I could to honour her as a woman."
Human Stain is but one of three intense dramas that Kidman has done. Apart from her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, there is Lars von Triers’ complex and experimental Dogville. Though much has been reported about the so-called rift between Kidman and the strange Danish director, the actress speaks genuinely passionately about the film and its director. “With Lars, you don’t feel like you’re making a movie, but rather entering into a world, particularly because the way in which we did it.” She recalls working in Sweden, “working in a small town and we all worked together, and in a way, you become part of Lars’ psyche, in a way. You go to sleep, you have dinner and breakfast with him, you go to work you eat lunch together and so you’re almost joined at the hip.” Kidman admits that while such a work environment is exciting, “it’s also a very confronting experience, resulting in the different films that he makes. So when I arrived in Sweden, I knew that I’d be working with somebody who ‘already had a complicated relationship with Bjork, but I arrived there going: I’m here, I’m open and I’m raw, ready to work and ready to be part of your life.” There were no sets to speak of, Kidman recalls, “but I was prepared to work through it. He’s so unconventional, he operates the camera himself, he’ll reach out and hold your hand and talk to you and move you around. It’s just a very different format”, Kidman explains. “It’s not about trying to achieve a performance, it’s more about him trying to get inside your head.” Kidman promised to do the rest of the director’s trilogy but suddenly backed out of the second one, maintaining a need to spend “some time with my kids early next year.”
Next to her ever-flourishing career, it’s her children that remain a priority for Nicole, insisting that neither she nor Tom Cruise “ever discussed the custody in terms of the children. It’s important for me that my kids are a part of my life. That means they come to the film set, they’re aware of what I’m doing and they get to give their opinion in terms of the different characters,” says Kidman. “But they have a complicated life and it’s something you feel guilty for, and something you apologise for, and it’s something you say: Well, they’re going to get an education out of this that will be slightly different and that’s going to be very artistic. I just think that anything you can do to stimulate a child artistically is important. So who knows how it will all turn out in the end but I’m trying to incorporate them and keep them so their memories will be very vivid in relation to the work.”
| And the work has been very intense of latte, which means she has to shift gears. Kidman next film is finally a comedy, a light-hearted remake of the 1970s horror movie The Stepford Wives. “It's tough being funny!" she says with that hearty laugh of hers. And, by the way, reports of her playing the Elizabeth Montgomery part in a film version of the old TV sitcom Bewitched are premature. She says she hasn't yet committed to it and if she did, Samantha's famous magical nose-twitch “would probably be CGI”, she adds, laughingly.
Kidman also concedes that she still suffers from bouts of stage fright, not only before doing theatrical roles, but when she first commits to choosing a film, and sometimes she has to back out. She says Meryl Streep - with whom she co-starred in The Hours - often has the same fear. "I'm actually desperate to do a play again within the next 18 months because if I don't do it I'll never go back onstage. And I want to do it and throw myself in that arena again and want to do it bravely with something that’s kind of unusual and bold.”
She says although she served as a producer, because of that fear of not being in the proper emotional state at the time, she had to bow out of the leading role that Meg Ryan took in Jane Campion's upcoming psychological thriller In the Cut. "It was a very painful thing to give up," she admits. "But at the same time I was very glad for Meg Ryan.” Had Kidman starred in the film, eyebrows would have been raised again, as Ryan plays a lonely academic who becomes sexually awakened by an aggressive cop on the hunt for a serial killer. Sex is back, and a common theme at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, and Kidman is certain as to why films dealing with sexual relationships are suddenly back in vogue. “Because it’s important and it’s a part of our life because I think the denial of it isn’t going to help any of us. I also think there is a group of people going: Let’s deal with sexual issues, let’s deal with things that are confronting, and hopefully stimulate people into conversation and ideas.”
As for life after Oscar, Kidman says it didn't sink in until she saw for herself what a global event the Academy Awards were. "I've realized just from my travels, the awareness of it is worldwide."
She says, too, she is especially glad to have won for playing Virginia Woolf, “because she gave me so much and then on top of it, she gave me an Oscar, and I’m glad to have had that through her. I have a strange relationship with Miss Woolf.”
"THE HUMAN STAIN" OPENS IN THE US ON OCTOBER 3RD, 2003
"IN THE CUT" OPENS IN THE US ON OCTOBER 22ND, 2003
"DOGVILLE" OPENS IN THE US IN LATE 2003 |
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(CP) - Is Nicole Kidman too skinny? That was the buzz on the Internet and in the Australian press after news photos taken of her at the Toronto festival Saturday night circled the globe. Kidman, in a clingy white gown and with gardenias in her hair, was photographed arriving for the gala of her festival film The Human Stain with Anthony Hopkins. There were concerns that she may have had a weight-loss problem.
"Silly" is how her Oz publicist Wendy Day described the speculation, adding that Kidman had been working hard on her two upcoming films, a comedy remake of The Stepford Wives and a civil war drama Cold Mountain.
"She's always been a thin build," said Day, adding that Kidman has never required any assistance from diets.
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Former Melroze cover girl (January 2003) Nicole Kidman is Hollywood's new royalty. From fashion icon to box office star, she has fully arrived as an A-list celebrity — eclipsing, for this year at least, even her famous ex-husband.
Since grabbing attention with 1989's Dead Calm as a tall, fair, fresh-faced Australian redhead, she has been steadily building a career, her passion for acting waylaid only by a happy marriage and the adoption of two children.
Now, at age 35, divorced, sharing custody of the kids but otherwise seemingly on her own, Kidman is proving to be a woman in her prime, moving forward into a new phase of her life and her career. The spark behind it all: shedding any hint of herself to portray tortured author Virginia Woolf in the critically acclaimed film The Hours.
This past award season, Kidman has won a Golden Globe, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts best-actress award, a Berlin International Film Festival award, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society best-actress award and countless rave reviews and she took home her first Oscar.
What does she make of it all?
"Oh dear," she says, laughing. "I feel overwhelmed a little, to be completely honest. I'm trying to keep my feet on the ground."
'I'm very good at daydreaming'
It's late in the afternoon in New York, where she has recently bought an apartment after finally selling the Los Angeles home she and Tom Cruise shared for more than a decade. She has just finished her first day of filming her new movie, Birth. Before audiences see that, however, she's already got Dogville, The Human Stain and Cold Mountain ready for release. She has committed to Alexander the Great and The Stepford Wives, and she had been offered Bewitched and Catwoman. In the fall, she starts shooting Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a spy thriller, with Brad Pitt.
"I don't see myself as a movie star," she insists. "Stanley Kubrick always said to me that I was a character actress. So I hope I get to play character roles, like Virginia Woolf and Ada (in Cold Mountain, which is due at Christmas). The women I'm drawn to at the moment, I feel a sense of wanting to honor them, wanting to create something complicated and special. That requires something more. It requires it existing in your psyche and your dreams."
She lives her characters but says she's not a workaholic. In fact, she says, "I'm very good at daydreaming. I can go to extremes. That means I can actually lie around and do nothing. Literally exist in my head."
And what's she thinking?
"Lots of things. It's embarrassing. Like my sister would say, 'What have you done this afternoon?' Nothing. I can go from incredibly focused to incredibly vague."
She says that comes from her father and her mother: Anthony, a biochemist and clinical psychologist, and Janelle, a nursing instructor. They will be her dates at the Oscars.
'Don't deviate'
Her every move, from the color of her Golden Globes gown and oversized earrings to her next movie proj-ect, is watched carefully. And she has managed to cultivate an image as a hardworking talented actress, as well as glamour icon. When she was in the perfect movie-star marriage, she gave up heels, yet fought against being dubbed Mrs. Tom Cruise. Now, the Manolo Blahniks are on. With pride.
And though Kidman dismisses the famous prosthetic Woolf nose she wore in The Hours as an insignificant prop, it hid the well-known Kidman, allowing only the character to emerge.
But when she was handed a red clown nose at the Golden Globes — a sort of joke tribute to the Woolf nose — she refused to put it on. She didn't want to joke about that. "No," she says. "Maybe in front of friends, not in front of millions of people."
Her career is largely in the hands of two people — Kevin Huvane and Rick Nicita, two of Hollywood's top agents. "They're very much a part of knowing the kind of things I love to do, and they're very supportive."
When she calls in a panic wanting to back out of a film, as she often does in a last-minute attack of insecurity, one of them will calm her down and tell her to get on the plane.
It has been an "odd" career, she says.
How so?
"Because everything that has been successful for me has been something not expected to be. Artistically, the times when I've made formulaic choices, they haven't been my strengths. The artistic choices that I love and have no expectation attached to them turn out great."
Which tells her?
"Don't deviate."
She reminds herself not to become too attached to any one thing at any particular time.
"It's a journey of artistic expression," she says of filmmaking, stardom and life. "A friend of mine just said, 'Enjoy it; it's fleeting.' There's so much truth to it."
She worries that she won't work again?
She insists that's a common thought: "I've got another year and it's all over. My mother's famous line: 'That's enough now. Come home.' "
Home, however, never satisfies her for long. Acting is in her blood. Besides, her mother is also the one "who said there are very few people who get great joy out of their work, so if you have that, you're very lucky."
Director John Duigan has known Nicole since she was 15. He has worked with her on several films, including the 1991 movie Flirting, which also featured her good friend Naomi Watts.
"One of the things that struck me most when she was young was how focused she was and how capable," Duigan says. "She was very single-minded about her acting."
Robert Benton has known her since Billy Bathgate and has just finished directing her in The Human Stain. "Nicole has been my No. 1 choice time and time again. Either she wasn't available or the schedule didn't work out. There are a handful of actors I will walk through fire for, and she is one of them. Gene Hackman and Paul Newman and Ed Harris are the others."
He doesn't see her as finally arriving. She was always here.
"I think she was always gifted beyond her years, mature beyond her years. I think all the stuff that has happened to her has made her a richer actor. Whatever unhappiness she has gone through — if there has been any — it's brought a maturity and a sureness to her work."
That 'old-soul quality'
But some insist that maturity was there years ago. Laura Ziskin co-produced the 1995 movie To Die For. Kidman won a best actress Globe for it, but the Oscars ignored her that year. "To me that was the Oscar nomination she was robbed of. It stunned us," Ziskin says. "It was a reluctance among other actors to accept her. She was so beautiful; she was married to this big movie star."
Ziskin says the timing is much more in her favor now. "She is at a very good age, to be in her mid-30s. She has grown into her beauty. ... She always had an old-soul quality to her. She was only about 27, young, when I worked with her. She was always very centered. As she gets older, fortunately for her, she gets more interesting. As a human being, her defining characteristic is that she is incredibly brave on all fronts. She is a gutsy girl."
Kidman tells a story:
"It's interesting," she says, "I just saw (director) Sam Mendes and he said, 'How are you feeling?' And I said, 'I feel overwhelmed, but I'm so glad to have these opportunities because at the moment, it's flowing out of me. I don't quite understand it.' And he said, 'It's called being in your 30s and being a woman. It's an enormous amount of experience and you're being given an opportunity to put those life experiences into your work.' "
Her fans seem to have newfound respect for her life experiences.
"I am thrilled that Nicole Kidman graced your January cover," a reader wrote in March's Elle magazine. "She is an amazing beauty, with such a wonderful view of life. She has shown us that no matter who you are, your life can be turned upside down. I am inspired by her strength and courage."
Other side of stardom
While she does exude strength and confidence, Kidman allows a glimpse behind the curtain of stardom.
"When you suddenly become very well known — and you're at Cannes with all that craziness — there's a deep loneliness to it. When you share it with somebody else in the way Tom and I shared it — there's a romanticism to it. When you're alone, it's lonely. One minute you're surrounded by a lot of people and you go back to your hotel room and you're ordering room service at 3 a.m. and you think, 'Who do I call?' And that's the God's honest truth. You're lucky to be able to order room service, but," she pauses, "it's surreal at times."
Duigan says this is a new time for her. "It's a transition stage: She had what in many respects was a very happy marriage, and now that's behind her, and who knows what's on the personal front?"
The answer, according to the British press, is that she and Jude Law were more than co-stars on the set of Cold Mountain. According to Law and Kidman, that's all they were.
She hasn't rebounded into anyone's arms. And maybe that's because she says she spent a decade channeling much of her energy into her marriage.
"It wasn't a decision; it's just that's where my passion went. Now I have my kids, my artistic expression."
Doesn't she think there might be a connection between the fact that she is being taken seriously as an actress now and the fact that she is no longer Mrs. Tom Cruise?
"I don't think so; do you? I do know my life has changed in all areas. I don't know how to correlate it. I suppose I don't want to know."
Posted at 08:50 am by iscah88
Sep 8, 2003
The beautiful Nicole Kidman stole the spotlight at screenings for her two upcoming films: "Dogville," co-starring Chloe Sevigny and "The Human Stain," co-starring Anthony Hopkins.
In "The Human Stain," Nicole plays a woman with a painful past, who has a scandalous love affair with Anthony Hopkins.
The Oscar winner revealed where she found the inspiration to play a battered woman. She says, "I went to a woman's shelter. I was very fortunate to find a shelter that allowed me in and two particular women that were very open to me."
Nicole reveals that playing a mother whose two children die was incredibly emotional. She says, "I mean a woman, a mother, doesn’t recover. I wouldn’t ever recover."
Nicole, who shares custody of her own two kids with Tom Cruise, says motherhood is her most challenging role. She says, "Who knows how they are going to turn out ultimately. But I think they’re great children. There is a lot of guilt with motherhood; you always think you’re doing everything wrong."
But how does Nicole feel about finding Mr. Right? She says, "I don’t know. Now you make me blush."
It turns out even Nicole Kidman is only human.
I feel guilty, says Nicole
SHE has turned down roles for the sake of her children. Yet Nicole Kidman has admitted she feels guilty about the way they are being brought up.
Nicole says her children have a "complicated" life.
The Oscar-winning actress adopted Conor, eight, and Isabella, 11, with ex-husband Tom Cruise during their 10-year marriage. The youngsters now divide their time between both parents' Los Angeles homes, and also spend time in Sydney with Kidman.
"My kids come to the film sets and they give their opinion in terms of the different characters I play," she said at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada.
"They have a complicated life, and it's something I feel guilty for."
The 36-year-old actor was promoting her latest film, The Human Stain, alongside co-star Anthony Hopkins at the festival.
She said there were limits to what the children were allowed to observe in her work.
But she must be doing something right, because one of her children - she won't say which - wants to follow in her footsteps and pursue an acting career.
Kidman said her other child "couldn't think of anything worse".
After the premiere Kidman returned to New York where she is filming The Stepford Wives alongside Bette Midler.
In movies or life, age no barrier to love, Nicole Kidman says
TORONTO (CP) - Nicole Kidman brought something other that undeniable star power to the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday - hope for older men.
In The Human Stain, the 36-year-old Australian actress has a passionate affair with an older man, Anthony Hopkins playing a widowed college professor who's 71. "Age doesn't matter," she declares absolutely at an evening press conference when asked if audiences will accept her in such a situation.
"The reason people are drawn together, the reason people choose each other, we never know."
Kidman believes that without all the exterior forces working against them, the relationship of the two characters in The Human Stain definitely could have worked, even though both people were so emotionally damaged.
"The different people that enter into your life at different times, they enter into it . . . because you allow them, they enter because of timing, they enter because of a connection between two people, not the way in which their bodies look."
She says people who operate on strictly physical level probably have very superficial relationships that don't stand a chance.
"A 70-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, a 25-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman, bring it on! It doesn't matter!"
She also dismissed questions about whether she can be believable as a janitor and a farmhand, which is what her secretive character does in The Human Stain.
"I cleaned toilets when I was an usherette in Sydney and my hands got very dirty. Whether you believe me or not, I tried to do the best I could to honour her as a woman."
And while her accountant may disagree, Kidman says acting is not like work to her, that trying to make pieces of art is something she loves to do.
"There's no drive behind it. It's more an acceptance of what my life is and that is being an actress and somebody who absolutely loves what they get to do. And would do it whether you pay me, which sometimes happens, or whether you don't pay me, which also happens. Because I'm dedicated to it."
Still, she is coming off three consecutive roles in which she played dark and damaged women - festival entries Robert Benton's The Human Stain and Lars von Trier's Dogville, and last year's The Hours for which she won the Academy Award.
And that means she has to shift gears, which is why her next film is a comedy, a lighthearted remake of the 1970s horror movie The Stepford Wives.
"It's tough being funny!" she declares with a hearty laugh. And, by the way, reports of her playing the Elizabeth Montgomery part in a film version of the old TV sitcom Bewitched are premature. She says she hasn't yet committed to it and if she did, Samantha's famous magical nose-twitch would probably be computer-generated.
She confirms that she still suffers from bouts of stage fright, not only before doing theatrical roles, but when she first commits to choosing a film, and sometimes she has to back out. She says Meryl Streep - with whom she co-starred in The Hours - often has the same fear.
"I'm actually desperate to do a play again within the next 18 months because if I don't do it I'll never go back onstage. And I want to do it."
She says although she served as a producer, because of that fear of not being in the proper emotional state at the time, she had to bow out of the leading role that Meg Ryan took in Jane Campion's upcoming psychological thriller In the Cut.
"It was a very painful thing to give up," she admits. "But at the same time I was very glad for Meg Ryan."
As for life after Oscar, Kidman says it didn't sink in until she saw for herself what a global event the Academy Awards were.
"I've realized just from my travels, the awareness of it is worldwide."
She says, too, she is especially glad to have won for playing Virginia Woolf.
"I have a strange relationship with Miss Woolf."
Nicole Kidman brought something other that undeniable star power to the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday - hope for older men.
In The Human Stain, the 36-year-old Australian actress has a passionate affair with an older man, Anthony Hopkins playing a widowed college professor who's 71. "Age doesn't matter," she declares absolutely at an evening press conference when asked if audiences will accept her in such a situation.
"The reason people are drawn together, the reason people choose each other, we never know."
Kidman believes that without all the exterior forces working against them, the relationship of the two characters in The Human Stain definitely could have worked, even though both people were so emotionally damaged.
"The different people that enter into your life at different times, they enter into it ... because you allow them, they enter because of timing, they enter because of a connection between two people, not the way in which their bodies look."
She says people who operate on strictly physical level probably have very superficial relationships that don't stand a chance.
"A 70-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, a 25-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman, bring it on! It doesn't matter!"
She also dismissed questions about whether she can be believable as a janitor and a farmhand, which is what her secretive character does in The Human Stain.
"I cleaned toilets when I was an usherette in Sydney and my hands got very dirty. Whether you believe me or not, I tried to do the best I could to honour her as a woman."
And while her accountant may disagree, Kidman says acting is not like work to her, that trying to make pieces of art is something she loves to do.
"There's no drive behind it. It's more an acceptance of what my life is and that is being an actress and somebody who absolutely loves what they get to do. And would do it whether you pay me, which sometimes happens, or whether you don't pay me, which also happens. Because I'm dedicated to it."
Still, she is coming off three consecutive roles in which she played dark and damaged women - festival entries Robert Benton's The Human Stain and Lars von Trier's Dogville, and last year's The Hours for which she won the Academy Award.
And that means she has to shift gears, which is why her next film is a comedy, a lighthearted remake of the 1970s horror movie The Stepford Wives.
"It's tough being funny!" she declares with a hearty laugh. And, by the way, reports of her playing the Elizabeth Montgomery part in a film version of the old TV sitcom Bewitched are premature. She says she hasn't yet committed to it and if she did, Samantha's famous magical nose-twitch would probably be computer-generated.
She confirms that she still suffers from bouts of stage fright, not only before doing theatrical roles, but when she first commits to choosing a film, and sometimes she has to back out. She says Meryl Streep - with whom she co-starred in The Hours - often has the same fear.
"I'm actually desperate to do a play again within the next 18 months because if I don't do it I'll never go back onstage. And I want to do it."
She says although she served as a producer, because of that fear of not being in the proper emotional state at the time, she had to bow out of the leading role that Meg Ryan took in Jane Campion's upcoming psychological thriller In the Cut.
"It was a very painful thing to give up," she admits. "But at the same time I was very glad for Meg Ryan."
As for life after Oscar, Kidman says it didn't sink in until she saw for herself what a global event the Academy Awards were.
"I've realized just from my travels, the awareness of it is worldwide."
She says, too, she is especially glad to have won for playing Virginia Woolf.
"I have a strange relationship with Miss Woolf."
I have some pictures Of Nic at the premiere of Dogville and The Human Stain coming up asap.
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Sep 5, 2003
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US honours Nicole Kidman
Oscar-winning Australian superstar Nicole Kidman will be honoured with a special achievement award from a top US film preservation group.
Kidman's latest honour follows a string of varied and highly acclaimed roles which have seen her break out of the shadow of ex-husband Tom Cruise into superstardom in her own right.
Kidman will receive the 18th annual American Cinematheque Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles on November 14.
"Her Academy Award this year reflects just one of a series of daring and demanding performances," the American Cinemateque's Rick Nicita said.
"Her unique ability to balance art house independents with the commercial mainstream has made her one of the most sought-after actresses in movies today."
Kidman was the unanimous choice of the Cinematheque Board of Directors selection committee, which since 1986 has annually honoured a writer, actor or director in the entertainment industry.
Other recent winners have included Denzel Washington, Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis and Jodie Foster.
The 35-year-old's movie career hit a high point in March when she won the best actress Oscar for her role as Virginia Woolf in the film The Hours.
Her other films include Moulin Rouge (2001), Eyes Wide Shut (1997), To Die For and Days of Thunder with Cruise, from whom she was divorced last year after a 10-year marriage.
Nicole Kidman leads Aussie Oscar charge
The Academy Awards ceremony is six months away, but Nicole Kidman's quest to join Katharine Hepburn in the Oscar record books is about to enter an important phase.
On two continents, thousands of miles from the Hollywood sign, Kidman and the studios backing her push for consecutive golden statuettes have begun generating the buzz. This week she is in Venice, Italy. Next week she will be in Toronto, Canada. But the Australian actress won't be alone.
Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts, Toni Collette, and Jane Campion also begin their campaigns for Oscar nominations at one or both of the film festivals.
"The Australian presence will definitely be very strong here," Steve Gravestock, the Toronto Film Festival's manager of programming, told AAP.
The importance of the Venice and Toronto festivals grew this year after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently re-scheduled its 2004 Oscars ceremony to February 29, a month earlier than its traditional late March date.
To qualify for next year's Oscars, a film must screen in the US during the 2003 calendar year.
Traditionally, most Oscar-bound films are released in US cinemas in November or December to keep them fresh in the minds of Academy voters.
With the Oscars ceremony being held in February, instead of March, the studios have one less month to build the buzz, putting Venice and Toronto at the starting point of some campaigns.
"When we've talked to some of the film-makers, they have specifically mentioned they were thinking of Toronto as part of their Academy campaigns," Gravestock said.
Kidman won her first best actress Academy Award in March for her role in The Hours . The last actress to win consecutive best actress Oscars was Katharine Hepburn (1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ; 1968 The Lion in Winter ). Luise Rainer is the only other actress to have done it (1936 and 1937).
Kidman has three Oscar-quality performances for Academy voters to consider for the 2004 ceremony: The Human Stain, Dogville, and Cold Mountain .
The Human Stain is being shown out of competition in Venice, and will be screened in Toronto on September 6. Kidman plays a rough, tattooed, auburn-haired cleaner who has an affair with a former college dean played by Anthony Hopkins.
Dogville , written and directed by Denmark's Lars von Trier, premiered at the Cannes film festival in May, and has its North American premiere in Toronto on September 7.
Miramax's US civil war epic Cold Mountain, starring Kidman, Jude Law, and Renee Zellweger, is due to open in the US in December.
Other Australians with Oscar potential projects in Venice are Rush, Blanchett and Watts.
Rush's Intolerable Cruelty, with Billy Bob Thornton and George Clooney, will be screened out of competition in Venice, as will Blanchett's black-and-white Coffee and Cigarettes .
Watts's 21 Grams, starring Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro, is the only US film to make it into the Venice competition. Watts plays a drug addict in 21 Grams, a movie that will also be shown in Toronto.
Blanchett has two films in Toronto: Coffee and Cigarettes, and Veronica Guerin .
She has already received brilliant reviews for her role as a courageous journalist in Veronica Guerin, a Joel Schumacher directed film set in 1990s Dublin.
Toronto organisers have honoured Australian comedy Danny Deckchair, starring Miranda Otto, by naming it as the festival's Closing Night Gala Presentation.
"It's a very prominent slot," Gravestock said.
"It's always good to end on a comedy, and Danny Deckchair is a very sweet, heart-warming, eccentric and unusual comedy. And, to be honest, I think it's probably one of the better closing night films we've had."
Collette's Australian film, Japanese Story, also has a prominent position in Toronto.
It is directed by Sue Brooks, and set in the Australian outback.
Toronto festival organisers have described Collette's performance as being among "the best of her career".
New Zealand-born Oscar winner Jane Campion is making another run at the Academy Awards, this year with thriller In the Cut. It stars Meg Ryan and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and has its world premiere in Toronto.
Alexandra's Project (starring Gary Sweet and written and directed by Rolf de Heer) and the low-budget horror film Undead (directed by Australian twins Peter and Michael Spierig) also will screen in Toronto.
The other Australian project in Toronto is Tom Zubrycki's documentary Molly and Mobarak , a film that follows Afghan refugee Mobarak Tahiri as he tries to assimilate in the NSW country town of Young.
"We've always had a tradition of showing a lot of Australian films because our audiences are really up for it," Gravestock said.
"One of the first big successes we had was The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith in 1978, so there's a long-running history with Australian film."
The Venice festival began last week, and finishes on September 6.
The Toronto festival runs from September 4 to 13.
Accolades galore for Nicole Kidman
Sydney: A searing performance in "The Human Stain", even before its premiere, has won actress Nicole Kidman critical acclaims at the Venice Film Festival.
Kidman will not attend the festival because of work commitments. Critics applauded a preview of the film starring Kidman and Anthony Hopkins at the weekend. Hopkins received a standing ovation when he arrived at a press conference, says a report in The Australian.
Directed by Robert Benton, it is based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth and is being shown out of competition at Venice.
The film unfolds the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a light-skinned black man who passes himself off as white to escape bigotry in 1940s America. Later, when his past comes back to haunt him, Silk loses his job and his wife before embarking on a disastrous affair with an abused woman, played by Kidman.
According to the report, "The Human Stain" will be released in September, followed by Kidman's next three films, "Lars von Trier's Dogville", the mystery drama "Birth" and the American Civil War movie "Cold Mountain".
"Not only is (Kidman) a great actress but a great source of strength. Whatever you want she will do it. She will take extraordinary risks. I think she has grown as an artist," Benton said. ANI
IN THE CUT
Based on the best-selling novel by Susanna Moore, In the Cutis a psychological thriller starring Meg Ryan and directed by Jane Campion. Ryan plays a lonely New York woman who discovers the darker side of passion after becoming involved with a tough homicide detective who is investigating a series of murders in her neighborhood. Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh co-star. This film is not yet rated by the MPAA.
RELEASE: October 24
DIRECTOR: Jane Campion
WRITER: Jane Campion & Susanna Moore
PRODUCERS: Laurie Parker & Nicole Kidman
CAST: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh & Nick Damici
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Aug 24, 2003
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Added some pictures to latest addtions with some pictures that are watermarked,
But I think they are still cool and I hope you do too:)
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Here are two Nicole fansites I found and thought if you
haven't seen them you should check them out.
NicoleKidmanFan.com
Stardom-A Nicole Kidman fansite
And here is a Dogville fanlisting
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Aug 20, 2003
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Newest addtions- Human Stain pictures.
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New human stain layout made by Jen.
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Kidman Receives Cinematheque Award
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman will receive the 18th American Cinematheque Award at the annual benefit gala on Nov. 14.
The award singles out an "extraordinary artist in the entertainment industry who is fully engaged in his or her work and is committed to making a significant contribution to the art of the motion picture," according to media sources.
Of Kidman's award-winning portrayal of Virginia Woolf in "The Hours," American Cinematheque chairman Rick Nicita says, "Her Academy Award this year reflects just one of a series of daring and demanding performances. Her unique ability to balance art house independents with the commercial mainstream has made her one of the most sought-after actresses in movies today
Nicole Kidman Confirmed for The Interpreter
Nicole Kidman is in talks to play the title role in The Interpreter, the Working Title/Universal co-production that will be Sidney Pollack's first helming gig since 1999's Random Hearts.
In the thriller, which is expected to shoot next year, Kidman would play a U.N. interpreter who overhears an assassination plot. When she becomes a target she's paired with a federal agent and together they work to stop the murder of an African leader addressing the General Assembly.
Nicole Kidman Dating Lenny Kravitz
A pal of actress Nicole Kidman has confirmed the Oscar-winner is dating rocker Lenny Kravitz - following a series of reports claiming the pair were spending nights together.
The glamorous couple have hired a luxury yacht for a three-week break in the south of France next month, after Nicole finishes filming on her latest movie - a remake of The Stepford Wives.
A pal of the showbiz pair says, "It's the real thing and they'll step out together in public sooner rather than later. They're having fun and enjoying those first flushes of romance. He makes her laugh and is very attentive. They're both very happy."
Are You Gonna Go My Way? hitmaker Lenny was spotted canoodling with the leggy stunner on June 21st in Manhattan's Soho House, two nights before they attended Sean 'P. Diddy'Combs's birthday party together. They've since been spotted enjoying a string of intimate dinner dates.
The friend adds, "It started out as friends but has moved on very quickly. He's quirky and cool - very different to the usual sort of guy she goes for."
Since splitting from husband Tom Cruise in 2001, Nicole has been linked to pop star Robbie Williams and Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire. Reports also claim her relationship with British hunk Jude Law caused the actor's highly publicised split with his wife Sadie Frost- something she heavily denied.
Dread-locked rocker Lenny's many conquests include Vanessa Paradis, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Naomi Campbell.
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Nicole is on the cover of Septembers issue of Vouge magazine. YAY! Posted at 07:49 pm by iscah88
Aug 9, 2003
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Stepford Wives movie to be shot in Norwalk mansion
NORWALK, Conn. -- The Lockwood-Mathews mansion has stood out since the Civil War as a local symbol of American splendor that suddenly turned to tragedy.
But it is best known nationally as the mysterious focal point in a movie about a seemingly perfect Connecticut town.
The mansion will reprise that role in a remake of the 1975 film classic, "The Stepford Wives."
The national historic landmark attracts about 33,000 visitors annually. But it will close on Aug. 18 to prepare for the filming.
Paramount Pictures, which is producing the film, has agreed to spruce up the mansion, which features a 42-foot high rotunda rising through the center of the building to a giant skylight.
The studio will add new carpeting. It also will paint and restore the woodwork and glass of the mansion's expansive rotunda to its former glory. That is work the museum otherwise could not afford to perform, officials said.
"We're thrilled," said Marjorie St. Aubyn, the museum's executive director, who estimated the value of the work at more than $200,000. "With everyone cutting back, it's terrible for a museum like us to try and raise funds for restoration."
She is also hoping someone will buy back two statutes, "Pocahontas" and "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish," owned by private collectors that used to be displayed at the museum in time for the film.
The work is expected to take several weeks. Filming is scheduled to start Sept. 23 and last about two weeks.
"It's going to be a big boost for the mansion," said Mayor Alex Knopp.
Filming is not open to the public, but officials plan to provide updates and photos on the mansion's Web site.
Like the fictional Stepford, the mansion is a mix of splendor and tragedy.
The 62-room house was built in the mid-1860s as a summer house for LeGrand Lockwood, an investment banker who became wealthy during the booming industrial development and railroad expansion of the Civil War era. Two-hundred artisans, including woodcarvers and stone cutters, were brought from Europe to work on the residence.
The financier's dream ended suddenly on Black Friday of 1869, a major Wall Street panic, when he suffered crippling losses. He died a few years later and his widow was unable to make the final mortgage payment. She lost the house to foreclosure.
The mansion later suffered years of neglect and faced demolition. But the city saved the building, which retains its authentic gas fixtures, original indoor plumbing and heating systems and 19th century burglar alarm.
In the original movie, a woman who moves with her husband from New York to the town senses the wives are too perfect and subservient. She becomes suspicious of what's going on in Stepford and learns there is a plot among the men who meet in the mansion to turn the women into robots.
In the remake, the mansion will once again serve as the men's club. It's the only site revisited by the film.
"The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, which will serve as the site of our Men's Association, has a gothic, almost fortresslike quality that we think will provide a great visual contrast in the otherwise bucolic town of Stepford," said Marsha Robertson, a spokeswoman for the movie. "The Stepford Men's Association is a very mysterious place to those arriving in town."
The original movie became somewhat of a cult classic and the phrase "Stepford wife" became part of the American vocabulary. It was based on a novel by Ira Levin, who also wrote the novel that inspired the movie "Rosemary's Baby."
The new movie has an all-star cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken and Faith Hill.
Kidman, 35, will play Joanna, the young wife and mother who moves from Manhattan to the upper-class suburb of Stepford.
The film will be shot at the mansion as well as in homes in the wealthy Fairfield County towns of Greenwich, New Canaan and Darien. Other scenes will be filmed in New York and New Jersey, Robertson said.
She said this movie will be a comedy and will deviate from the original script. But she would not divulge details.
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Nicole Kidman settles British libel suit
Aug. 1, 2003 | LONDON (AP) -- Nicole Kidman accepted a public apology and undisclosed damages Thursday to settle a libel lawsuit against a newspaper that suggested she had an affair with actor Jude Law.
The actress' lawyers told the High Court libel hearing that in a March 6 article, the Daily Mail alleged Kidman had tempted Law to cheat on his wife, actress Sadie Frost, causing the breakdown of their marriage.
The story also suggested that she was dishonest for repeatedly denying an affair, her lawyer said. Kidman and Law co-star in the upcoming film "Cold Mountain."
"The publication of this article has caused grave damage to the claimant's personal and professional reputation and she has suffered considerable embarrassment and distress," Gideon Benaim told Justice Charles Gray.
"Her embarrassment was particularly acute as the allegations coincided with the run-up to the Oscars award ceremony in Los Angeles in which she had been nominated for an award for best actress in a leading role for her role in 'The Hours.'"
Kidman, 36, won the award for her portrayal of author Virginia Woolf.
Associated Newspapers, editor Paul Dacre and journalist Nicole Lampert accepted that the allegations were untrue and without foundation and apologized for the embarrassment caused to Kidman.
They apologized for the distress and embarrassment and agreed to pay her legal costs. The amount of damages was not revealed, but news reports said it was substantial.
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