Nicole Kidman

[CyberShiva]

Ay, ako rin Gustong-gusto ko *** sa Moulin Rouge... dba Satin ang pangalan nya dun!!! Sna nanalo rin *** ng Oscar dun!! Pro nanalo b *** sa Golden Globe sa performance nya sa Moulin Rouge?

[amaw]

Hi! I'm a Nicole fan too. Can't wait to see Cold Mountain.

[amaw]

Hello! Just wanna share the following articles about Nicole:


Family Matters

Garth Pearce
The Scotman (Scottish News direct from Scotland)
10 January 2004


Nicole Kidman stands to meet me in her hotel suite, wearing a chic black dress with black knee-length boots. It makes her 5ft 11in slender frame look even taller and thinner, and her face, framed by the famous Titian-coloured hair, seem more pale. But her most striking feature is her eyes: blue, determined, with an ask-me-what-you-will expression. If there¡¯s ever going to be a moment to put the past to rest, then this is it.

"I am looking to this New Year with great hope," she says. "I have worked very hard in the last year, and have tried to do a balancing act between being a good actress and a good mum. But I do want to start another kind of life soon. I know I can¡¯t go on living like I do, year after year. There has to be some changes."

The first is a baby. "That," she says, "is my first priority. I have reached a point where I am really ready, both physically and mentally. For a woman, the passing years always seem a little unfair. The body clock is ticking. And there is, as yet, no potential father. So I am going to have to work on this, hopefully away from the public¡¯s gaze. Can you imagine how difficult that is?"

Kidman, 36, has lived much of her life in the full floodlight of fame. She was unceremoniously and mysteriously dumped by her husband of ten years, Tom Cruise, and suffered the miscarriage of his baby in the wake of it. Each flirtation and romance since has been faithfully recorded in gossip columns. There have been rumours of ill health - just look at that thin body - and reports of personal despair. And through it all, she has mostly preferred silence over denial.

She has also delivered a succession of films, as if her life depended on it. It finally won her a best actress Oscar for The Hours, after being ignored for arguably better performances in The Others and Moulin Rouge.

Indeed, we are here in a smart London hotel to talk about three more new movies: Cold Mountain, the forthcoming The Human Stain and Dogville.

But it is Kidman¡¯s lifestyle that has captured so many headlines - from what seems an unlikely current romance with 39-year-old singer Lenny Kravitz, to the legal action she took against the newspapers that kept repeating the unfounded allegation that she had an affair with her Cold Mountain co-star Jude Law.

"I am never going to be some little victim," she says, in her Aussie accent. "I do believe in putting the record straight. I could be on the phone every day, with some of the stuff I read. It¡¯s only when it strays too far that I take action."

Kidman, then, has not established herself as the world¡¯s number one female star by accident. She has been prepared to live dangerously and take career risks. At 17, she left her home in Australia to live with a Dutch boyfriend in Amsterdam. She returned to nurse her mother, Janelle, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer - she survived, celebrating her 40th wedding anniversary with Kidman¡¯s father, Dr Anthony Kidman, at Christmas - and built a successful acting career in Australia before going to Hollywood as an unknown.

After her marriage to Cruise, with whom she co-starred in films such as Days of Thunder and Far and Away, Kidman adopted two children, Isabella, now 11, and Connor, eight. But this didn¡¯t stop her going skydiving for fun in the mid-1990s. There was also a plunge into the unknown when she undertook an 18-month marathon filming session with husband Cruise and the late director Stanley Kubrick for Eyes Wide Shut, with its controversial sexual content.

Kidman went a step further after her divorce - although the film was said to have made a significant contribution to the break-up - with the play Blue Room, co-starring British actor Iain Glen and showing at the small-scale Donmar Warehouse in London. Kidman was naked on stage. "I am always trying to escape who I am, and that was typical," she tells me.

"I was taught at drama school to create a character from the inside. With Blue Room, Iain was saying, ¡®Okay, we have got to get the shoes and the cane, and I am going to get this and that for this character.¡¯ I had nothing. The director, Sam Mendes, eventually said to me before the dress rehearsal, ¡®Nicole, you are going to have to put one of the costumes on.¡¯ I was like, ¡®No, I am still trying to find out how I walk and I am not there yet.¡¯"

The subject of sex on-screen is high on the agenda. In Cold Mountain, she plays vicar¡¯s daughter Ada, who is embroiled for much of the film in a long-distance love affair with Inman, Jude Law¡¯s courageous Confederate soldier. While he fights in the American Civil War several hundred miles from his home town of Cold Mountain, North Carolina, he never stops dreaming of the day he will see Ada once more.

But Kidman¡¯s virginal look is transformed for her new film, The Human Stain. She plays the oddly named Faunia in this screen version of the Philip Roth bestseller, and gets down and dirty in the process. She¡¯s a sexual predator, complete with tops that fall off the shoulder, a pair of tattoos and a vindictive, violent husband (played by Ed Harris). The fact that her prey is a sacked college lecturer and widower, Coleman Silk, played by Sir Anthony Hopkins, who is twice her age, adds a certain frisson to the relationship.

After kissing some of Hollywood¡¯s best-looking men on-screen, what were love scenes with Hopkins like? "I always do it in character," she replies. "I would never be able to even kiss anyone if I had to do the kiss as myself. I would be far too embarrassed. So I immerse myself into the character, and so the whole thing is as I imagine that character to be.

"With Faunia, I had to do a dance for him on my own and take my clothes off. I could never do that for any man in the privacy of my own bedroom. I just couldn¡¯t."

It was one of the reasons why she took action over the rumours of romance between herself and 30-year-old Law, who at the time was still married to actress Sadie Frost. "I have a strong moral view on not having a relationship with a married man," she says. "He also has children. I did not want, in front of my children¡¯s eyes, to be seen breaking up a marriage. It was a step too far to be accused of that."

The legal action came in the wake of more gossip - that, two years earlier, she and co-star Ewan McGregor were very close when filming Moulin Rouge, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Again, it was unfounded. "The most important thing to me is to protect my son and daughter and their well-being," she says. "I knew that from the minute I had them. It has always been my desire to see them never to come to harm. I want to go and fight their battles for them. Actually, the more I do that, the more I am protecting them - and making it harder for them to become adult.

"They are going to have to endure life without me at times. And the children of actors give up a lot, because they learn that their parents are going to be emotionally committed to something else. So there are a lot of bad things about having a parent who is an actor. I ask them to travel the world and be close to my side, and they have to give up a lot."

But Kidman has been keeping a special memento for them from each of her movies. "I know that they will be able to look back at me at various stages of my life, so I have written them a letter to read in the future," she says. "They will be able to have an understanding of where they were at that time in my mind and what they meant to me in the film. It will hopefully take on a bigger meaning."

She and Cold Mountain co-star Ren¨¦e Zellweger went a stage further while they worked together in the depths of a Romanian winter. They shared gossip of their own and wrote a diary. "But we soon realised that it was a bit too frank and that no one would be able to publish it," she smiles.

Could the super-slim Kidman ever emulate 34-year-old Zellweger, who has had to put on 20lbs in weight for her second film appearance as Bridget Jones? "It would be difficult," she says. "I have always had trouble putting on weight, yet I¡¯ve wanted curves my whole life. I would like to be like Marilyn Monroe. I eat food all the time." She points towards a bowl of fruit, sitting on a table a yard to her right. "Look at that - I asked for croissants. They must think I don¡¯t like food. This has always been my thing.

"I am always being told by my mum, ¡®Put on weight - you are too skinny.¡¯ But she knows it is not for want of trying. I just have trouble, because of my physical make-up. I was even more scrawny as a kid. But, let¡¯s face it, my figure is more like a boy¡¯s. I look like a boy-girl. If I had my own baby, I would have bigger boobs. That¡¯s one of the many good things I can think of that would come out of it."

But it is unlikely that Kravitz, once married to actress Lisa Bonet and recently reported to be seeing an old flame, Brazilian artist Isis Arruda, will be the father. "I don¡¯t think I have met the father yet," says Kidman. "But I do believe in love. I could still pledge my life to someone - absolutely.

"In love, you can choose to destroy it, have it destroyed or hold it high. If you can hold it high and keep it magical, then it can be sustained. It is only when you start to attack love and start questioning whether it is real that it becomes damaged. I loved the script for Cold Mountain for that very reason.

"Of all the parts I have played, this is the closest to my own personality. It is a great love between my character of Ada and Inman. Also, there is a wonderful kiss. It is like, ¡®Oh, swoon.¡¯ "The director, Anthony Minghella, played it beautifully. There was a most gorgeous love scene between Kristin (Scott Thomas) and Ralph (Fiennes) in Anthony¡¯s The English Patient, so we were in good hands.

"Most first-time kisses are slightly awkward, and out of that awkwardness comes a beauty. So I am a sucker for romance. A total sucker."

Kidman is in yet another change of character in Dogville, which co-stars Paul Bettany. She plays Grace, a beautiful fugitive who finds herself in an isolated town while she is on the run from gangsters. With a bit of encouragement from Bettany¡¯s character, Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the small community agrees to hide her. In return, Grace agrees to work for them. But as she does so, the locals start to take greater and greater advantage of her good nature. The reckoning is shocking.

There is no let-up, either. Kidman has already finished two more films, a remake of The Stepford Wives, to be released in the summer, plus another love story, Birth. She starts yet one more in February, called The Interpreter, directed by veteran Sidney Pollack.

"I love what I do for a living," she says. "I always have and always will. But it is definitely time to do other things and create more time for myself. And I have never felt in a better frame of mind to do so."

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Box-office Superstars
New York Daily News
By CAROLYN CALLAHAN
09 January 2004

Just call him Jim Almighty! Superstar Jim Carrey - who took over for God in last year's hit comedy "Bruce Almighty" - has the power to get people to go to the movies.

The rubber-faced funnyman was voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2003 in an annual survey of movie-theater owners, which asks them to rank the 10 headliners who bring the most fans to the box office.

Nicole Kidman is also sitting on top of the cold-cash mountain - she has the No. 2 spot, knocking her ex, Tom Cruise, off that perch. Cruise will have to settle for a less-flashy fourth place. It wasn't so long ago that lanky beauty Kidman - the Oscars' reigning Best Actress, thanks to her work in "The Hours" - was a Hollywood newcomer best known as Mrs. Tom Cruise.

But take heart, Tom - you're still the all-time champ, having appeared on the list 15 times and holding the top spot in six of those surveys.

The latest Quigley Poll - which has been around since 1932, and is considered to be one of the most reliable measures of a star's box-office draw - gave aging "Something's Gotta Give" playboy Jack Nicholson the No. 3 spot. In a remarkable display of staying power, Tom Hanks managed to place eighth, even though he hasn't released a flick since 2002's "Catch Me If You Can" and "Road to Perdition." Rounding out the top 10 were Julia Roberts (No. 5), Johnny Depp (No. 6), Russell Crowe (No. 7), Will Ferrell (No. 9) and Renee Zellweger (No. 10). Carrey's trip to the top of the heap has been amazing. In 1990, he was one of many comedians in the cast of the Fox sketch show "In Living Color." By 1994, Carrey was taking acting silly to new heights in a trio of blockbusters: "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "The Mask" and "Dumb & Dumber." Since then, he's tried stealing Christmas as the Grinch, and he's even gotten in touch with his serious side in "The Truman Show" (1998), "Man on the Moon" (1999) and "The Majestic" (2001). In the Quigley Poll, theater owners were also asked to name one actor and one actress they think will be pulling ticket-buyers into seats in the future.

Their pick of Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson - who starred in two flicks last year, "Lost in Translation" and "Girl With a Pearl Earring" - comes as no surprise. Demi Moore's squeeze, Ashton Kutcher, had back-to-back bombs last year - "Just Married" and "My Boss's Daughter" - but that didn't keep respondents from putting the hunk from "Punk'd" at the top of their list. Some notables who made the 2002 list, but have been left off the 2003 roster: Mike Myers, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Mel Gibson, Vin Diesel, Reese Witherspoon and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Other big names not on the list included George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow and even Cameron Diaz - one of the few women who makes $20 million a flick based on her audience appeal

[donnie244000]

Eat that Tom!

[angst]

She was brilliant in Cold Mountain. She should win as Best Actress this year.

[donnie244000]

angst I haven't watched it cause it's not yet shown here at PI is it as tearjerker as Moulin Rouge? or is it better?

[angst]

Originally posted by donnie244000
angst I haven't watched it cause it's not yet shown here at PI is it as tearjerker as Moulin Rouge? or is it better?

As a movie, I prefer Moulin Rouge. Cold Mountain is serious drama. Nicole had a better performance in Cold Mountain. She was so brilliant in Cold Mountain and her Southern accent in that movie was authentic.

[superstite]

I'm also hoping for a back- to-back win for Nicole Kidman sa Oscars. Sana lang huwag maging kj ang Oscars. They have the tendency kasi to give the award to somebody else just because hindi pa nanalo yung isa or kailangang papanalunin yung iba naman.

[donnie244000]

sana nga manalo *** ule pero ang laki talaga ng buzz na c Charlize ang mananalo eh, well di din natin alam sa the Hours unexpected *** kc their bet back then was Rene..

[livs]

Nicole Kidman's performance in Dogville will blow you away!!! Grabe, its the best of her career yet. I had the chance to see this movie last year sa cinemanila, and I had goosebumps all over my body. Simply amazing!! The audience was clapping and cheering at the end.

If you think she was already good in To Die For, Moulin Rouge, the Hours, and Cold Mountain, then you will simply be awestruck by how great she is in Dogville.

[donnie244000]

really? baka ** *** manominate di sa Cold Mountain teka nasabi naba ang final decision ng OSCARS...

[melusine]

Another Nicole fan herrre!

baalzebub pagaya ha?

nakilig ako sa FAR AND AWAY
i loved her in TO DIE FOR
(eventhough I didn't like the movie, she was good in THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY)
(eventhough I didn't like the movie, she was good in EYES WIDE SHUT)
i loved her in MOULIN ROUGE!
i loved her in THE OTHERS
i loved her in BIRTHDAY GIRL
i loved her in THE HOURS
i loved her in DOGVILLE

i will love her in THE HUMAN STAIN
i will love her in COLD MOUNTAIN
i will love her in THE STEPFORD WIVES
i will love her in BIRTH
i will love her in BEWITCHED
i will love her in ALEXANDER THE GREAT

I think it's highly unlikely that she'll win the Oscar this year. Mukhang the buzz and momentum is behind Charlize; and anyway, only REALLY beloved industry people win back-to-back Oscars eh (e.g. Tom Hanks). Some pundits are saying that Nic might not even get nominated dahil she got snubbed sa BAFTA (damn them Brits!) at SAG (damn them actors!). Inggit lang sila 'no! They probably feel that she's been rewarded enough, what with last year's trophy and her mega-stardom and being "the most powerful actress in Hollywood." Kainis sila that way--ibang factors ang nakikialam, di lang performance-based. Tsaka the reviews I've been reading seem to show that Cold Mountain is more admired than loved. Ewan ko lang, have yet to see it (malapit na Feb 18!). But I'm reallyreallyreally crossing my fingers that she gets the Oscar nom. 3-straight-noms-in-a-row is a rare feat in itself.

Mag-antay na lang sila next year... Nic will come back with vengeance! livs I saw Dogville in Cinemanila too and it blew my mind. Grabe, ang galing nung movie at ang galing niya.

Originally posted by donnie244000
The Oscars are arguing which film(Cold M. or Stepford W.) are they going to nominate Nicole..Galing no? 2 films nanaman before they argued if Moulin Rouge or The Hours are they gonna nominate her and turns out MR ang pinili tapos The Hours(people disregard on this film ***** pangmatatalino lang ang nakakaunawa nito di naman ako ganon katalino ***** magaling lang talaga ako makaunawa ng mga smart films) which bagged her 1st Oscars and which she deserves..

Ang alam ko, they haven't released Stepford Wives yet, ngayong 2004 pa. You're probably referring to The Human Stain--but there wouldn't have been any conflict there because they were campaigning for her as Best Actress for CM and Supporting Actress for THS. Sayang nga kasi although her performance opposite Anthony Hopkins was mostly praised, the movie itself was problematic kaya hindi tuloy nag-generate ng buzz (ganda sana if she were nominated in both categories, parang si Julianne Moore last year). Regarding naman Moulin Rouge, I think ang film na kasabay nung taon na yun (2001) ay The Others. Tapos dun tuloy nagkaroon ng cancelling-out of votes at na-shut out nanaman siya sa SAG. The Hours was her only film for 2002 (post-divorce kasi so isa lang ang kinaya niyang gawin, and she couldn't back out na), which won for her (yay! deservedly) the 2003 Best Actress Oscar.

Can't wait for her turn as Alex the Great's (and Leo Dicaprio's) mom. Reunion nila ni Baz, hehe.

She's being offered daw a role sa bigscreen version ng The Producers--musical ulit! Tapos I read that:

Sean Penn will star opposite Nicole Kidman in The Interpreter, a Sydney Pollack-directed political thriller for Working Title and Universal. Filming begins in New York early next year. Kidman is set to play a South African U.N. interpreter who overhears a conversation involving an assassination that could topple a government. She is paired with a skeptical FBI agent, the role Penn will play. The script was written by Charles Randolph. (Source: ComingSoon.net)

Wow. What a pair.

[melusine]

Glittery Kidman Stands Out

BEVERLY HILLS (AP) -- Nicole Kidman stopped traffic on the red carpet in a backless, cut-down-to-there gold sequin dress that stood out among the mostly ladylike fashions at the Golden Globe Awards.

"I sort of like that it's got a sort of slight Salome feel to it," the actress told Joan Rivers on E! Entertainment Television at Sunday night's awards show in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Kevin Lennox, associate fashion editor of Glamour magazine, said Kidman's gown, designed by Tom Ford in his last collection for Yves Saint Laurent, would likely be the most-talked-about dress of the evening.

"I think it's sort of out of left field for her, but I think it's interesting," said Lennox. "I feel like she's feeling a little kooky."

Kidman's gold sequin bodice, with a neckline that plunged to her waist, was held together with nude fabric and paired with a flowing, pale chiffon skirt. Her loose curls were held back with a gold headband.

"I like her for wearing what she's wearing," Lennox said. "She's like 6 feet tall or something and 10 pounds. It's great that she takes chances and doesn't just do the run-of-the-mill."



Most in Need of Double-Sided Sticky Tape: Nicole Kidman, who proudly announced on the red carpet that she had nixed the standard safety measure to keep her revealing sequined Yves St. Laurent dress in place, then was forced to make an onstage adjustment to protect her remaining shreds of modesty.

Grace Under Pressure: The aforementioned Kidman, who somehow ended up in the uncomfortable position of announcing the Best Actors in a Motion Picture Drama. The category that not only included her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, but her "Cold Mountain" co-star Jude Law, whom she so adamantly denied dating that she successfully sued a newspaper that claimed otherwise.

(Source: MSN.com)

Eat your heart out, Tom!

[gresyl]

[COLOR=red]isa sa mga gusto ko[/COLOR]

[melusine]

Golden Globes 2002



Oscars 2002



Golden Globes 2003



her ticket to Oscars 2004 (sana!) = Cold Mountain

[donnie244000]

Thank you melusine for the pics(wooooow I loooooove all her gowns specialy her YSL and the 2000 OSCAR gown, ooh not to mention her BEAUTY!) heheheehe take me time to reply to this thread again...well I'm very very dissapointed that she wasn't even nominated for an OSCAR(bummer)..

[melusine]

donnie244000 I was disappointed too, huhuhu. Akala ko talaga 3 noms in 3 years... pero oh well. Basta humanda sila next year! Dogville

At least she'll still be there sa Oscars--presentor nga lang, hindi nominee. huhuhu.

[|ostsou|]

What religion is Nicole Kidman? Hehehe...

[chacco]

Originally posted by |ostsou|
What religion is Nicole Kidman? Hehehe...

from what i know, her family is a devout catholic but when she married tom cruise, she converted to his religion--church of scientology.

[donnie244000]

scientology? I never knew that...It's pretty unfair why is Jude Law nominated when I didn't find his performance in CM good I think it's not a moving performance for him....ohh well my bet would be Charlize..