{"id":27320,"date":"2024-04-24T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/what-directors-love-about-nicole-kidman\/24\/04\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:56:38","slug":"what-directors-love-about-nicole-kidman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/what-directors-love-about-nicole-kidman\/24\/04\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"What Directors Love About Nicole Kidman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe come to this place for magic,\u201d Nicole Kidman says in the well-known <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KiEeIxZJ9x0\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMC Theaters preshow advertisement<\/a>. And who could better welcome back audiences to experience movies on the big screen than an acclaimed artist who\u2019s illuminated stories across all genres?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kidman has starred in daring art house projects (\u201cDogville,\u201d \u201cBirth\u201d), awards-friendly dramas (\u201cCold Mountain,\u201d \u201cRabbit Hole\u201d), big-budget crowd-pleasers (\u201cAquaman,\u201d \u201cPaddington\u201d) and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, the Australian American Oscar-winning actress will receive the life achievement award from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. At 56, Kidman is among the youngest honorees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But what qualities have kept Kidman consistently in demand for the past three decades?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Australian director Jane Campion said via email that \u201cher fierce curiosity has helped her take an audience inside some gnarly women.\u201d The American filmmaker Karyn Kusama described her as a \u201cchanneler of inchoate energy,\u201d and explained that when this \u201ccoalesces into something visceral for her character, you almost feel the molecules in the air shift around her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Five directors who have worked with Kidman, including Campion and Kusama, discussed what makes the performer an irreplaceable, shape-shifting talent.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-f65bba0\">Baz Luhrmann<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-423efa9c\"><span>\u2018Moulin Rouge!\u2019 (2001), \u2018Australia\u2019 (2008)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou tend to find brilliant character actors, or you find someone who has star quality. What\u2019s quite unique about Nicole is that she is both an amazing character actress \u2014 she completely absorbs into the character \u2014 but she burns so brightly as a star onscreen as well. She has both qualities, and that\u2019s pretty extraordinary. Because [\u201cMoulin Rouge!\u201d] was a musical, I needed her to do high comedy, almost slapstick like Katharine Hepburn. The scene inside the elephant shows her complete out-thereness, throwing her dress around and making funny noises. I didn\u2019t specifically instruct her to do it. I just said, \u2018How far can you go here?\u2019 And she went there. And that\u2019s really true of Nicole.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4265a732\">Stephen Daldry<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-1a7f5bf2\"><span>\u2018The Hours\u2019 (2002)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe is fearless in the characters that she plays, highly original in her choice of material and hugely adventurous in her choice of directors. She always wants to challenge herself and never settles on her laurels. She\u2019s constantly wanting to push herself to the limit of whatever she does. That\u2019s certainly what she did when she played Virginia Woolf. At that point she wasn\u2019t the star she is now, it must be said. But we never thought about anybody else. We knew she would plunge herself into it with an extraordinary vigor. She was astonishingly fearless walking into a very fast-moving river and submerging herself underwater for some time to demonstrate the terrible choice Virginia made.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7b5721d9\">Gus Van Sant<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-60baef44\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u2018To Die For\u2019 (1995)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI thought she was incredibly dedicated to making a fantastic performance through study of the script and the part, in a way I had never seen before. There were notebooks, and scene exercises, and voice exercises \u2014 it was very thorough. Nicole was so versed in the scenes that she was like having a second director there, who helped with the kids that we had playing her students, and it was a very welcomed help that she gave with them.\u201d Asked why he cast Kidman, who was then early in her career, Van Sant explained: \u201cNicole called and said she was destined to play the part, so I believed her.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-61d5c50f\">Jane Campion<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-637cb7e1\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u2018The Portrait of a Lady\u2019 (1996)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNicole\u2019s actor superpower is how she can hold pain, in a straight-back complex mix of heartbreak, sadness, humiliation that is both soft as well as animated. It\u2019s how she gets her characters to be broken and helpless yet not give up, except for poor Virginia Woolf who did not have Nicole\u2019s astonishing resilience. Nicole is the most famous person I know, but we still go for walks anywhere we want. Nic in a not very good disguise (cap and sunglasses), which is touching to me, most people we pass recognize her, but she doesn\u2019t seem to notice. She is extremely open about her life, we both are. Socially she is relaxed, generous and easy going. About work she is intense, serious. I loved working with Nic because she is daring and knows how to invite all sorts of potent energies to live and quarrel inside her.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-27e5ff52\">Karyn Kusama<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-61bf1528\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u2018Destroyer\u2019 (2018)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOn the set of \u2018Destroyer,\u2019 Nicole was incredibly prepared and centered, and I could feel the intensity and gravity of purpose vibrating off of her. At the same time, her assistant was often nearby with a Ziploc bag full of apple slices and almond butter, and during breaks she would hustle to her trailer to nap for whatever moments she could. Something about those details of her practice really affected me \u2014 to see that she\u2019s this extremely intense, disciplined artist who also needs a snack and a rest every now and then. You can feel how important it is to her process that she cares for her mind and body as she works, and how that inner attention allows her psychic access to all kinds of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/24\/movies\/nicole-kidman-roles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;We come to this place for magic,&rdquo; Nicole Kidman says in the well-known AMC Theaters preshow advertisement. 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