Alfredo - Year One says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:19am

“Gay directors have guided Nicole Kidman to her best performances in The Hours and To Die For.”

Don’t forget Amenabar with The Others

Pierre de Plume says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:37am

I’m optimistic about the casting choices.

jlu says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 1:44pm

technically, i think daldry considers himself bisexual. at least, according to his wikipedia page.

but i agree, who cares?

it would be absurd to think that kidman could only pull of a good performance if her male director goes for guys.

Ed says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 2:22pm

Who gives a damn if the directors are homosexuals?
Me, cause they always hold there camera’s so limp wristed.
In all seriousness though, TLC would never have last as a network
without an army of gay creativism.
As far as this movie……It annoys me that Cynthia Nixon didn’t get the role. Big Hollywood tends to ruin most movies these days. That’s why it is refreshing to see someone take the path less taken every once in a while…..Or just watch independent films exclusively.

elias says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 2:54pm

Woody Allen and John Cameron Mitchell ?

Which other Hollywood star would work with these great auteurs ?

Kidman really is the one with the most interesting, diverse résumé

Becky says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 4:36pm

Daldry is married, or has a female partner. Happy to see Nicole
with a meaty role. I hope this is her comeback. Some of her movies
have been mediocre but I have never seen her give a bad performance. I am not sure John Cameron Mitchell is the right choice
to direct this complex material.

Afrika says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:03pm

Anna

I never claimed to be one DARRRRR-LING!!!

Have a good day. Cheers.

Wael says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 9:43pm

I hope Nicole Kidman does this role justice. Personally, I don’t see her having the temperament to play Becca. I love this play, have seen the Broadway production and know it pretty well and Becca is wry and intense, Nicole Kidman is icy and removed. Becca deals with her pain by suppressing it but still is very active and has a certain heat to her. That’s not Nicole Kidman but then again she had a certain heat in the Others so let’s see. Cynthia Nixon really was amazing.

Wael says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 10:04pm

Oh Afrika, child Nicole is the queen of icy. I loved the hours and very much liked her performance in it but she excels at playing women trapped inside their own reality and that’s where she was with The hours, the others, Moulin Rouge, To Die for and that’s it(Going on is a waste of time, that’s Nicole Kidman’s Quartet of successful performances). She isn’t typically good at playing real down to earth housewife type characters and usually comes across as airy and removed which isn’t Becca.

Please don’t get your panties all twisted up. Having an opinion about the kinds of roles someone should or shouldn’t play doesn’t automatically mean I hate her. The world isn’t quite so um…Black and white.

Also, please remove the stones you have in your pockets. It isn’t that dire and Put down that pillow before you smother any children with it. OK child?

Wael says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 10:30pm

Yeah baby, she was. A brilliant woman going mad because she lived in a time when her ailment wasn’t understood, her life decided for her by a bunch of Victorian doctors. She wanted to be free and live in the city but her husband’s misguided notions of loving her was to imprison her in a country house where her most exciting and most frequent human interaction she had was with her service people none of whom understood her and she certainly couldn’t handle them. But that was her reality. She couldn’t take care of herself and eventually killed herself because she couldn’t deal with that reality. You know, the one she couldn’t get out of. I am talking about the movie here as there was more to Woolf’s life than that but yeah that was all there…

You are so cute with the serious business. I winked at you. That should have been a cluuuuue.

Wael says:
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:03pm

shhhh… Afrika will kill you…she can do the can can

I look forward to seeing what happens with this movie.

Praise be to Kidman. Or Kidmano Akbar as I like to say sometimes…not at airports though. Misunderstandings tend to ensue then.

Alfredo - Year One says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 9:42am

Afrika, are you a boy???? What man hetero is so obssesed with Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman?????

haqyunus says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 1:05pm

cynthia nixon has been robbed. it would have been her breakthru (as someone said earlier)

alois says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 3:33pm

Margot at the wedding, Birth and Dogville are 3 performances that were overlooked in the last 5 years. She was amazing in them, but the Academy tends to snub female characters that you can’t feel pity for. That’s also what happens with To die for and to an extent, with Eyes Wide Shut.

Kidman seems interested in playing complicated, non-easily likable characters and that’s more difficult for an actress, because you’re judged more harschly and people tend to associate the actress with the character.

I am sure that she will get plenty of noms for this film because she’s very much a victim, and you can have sympathy for her.

VCB says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 6:27pm

i wana cry… this sounds potent… just as as long as it doesn’t fizzle like “reservation road”

Wael says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 8:51pm

alois, it doesn’t sound like you know anything about Rabbit Hole. It’s not a tearjerker and Becca comes across as less than sympathetic in many scenes and not at all a victim which makes it different than a seen this, watched that family tragedy. It’s really more about how families deal with their impacted grief after a tragic death of a child and how a husband and a wife’s very disparate ways of grieving pulls them in totally opposite directions.

Also, Mary Tyler Moore came across as a very unlikable character and she still got nominated for an academy award. Your observation is not always true. The academy often doesn’t go for subtle but they do go for unlikable characters.

Flapp says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 9:16pm

Nicole Kidman is in it. She’s a big actress and a big star. I see her name in the cast and I think: WONDERFUL!!!!!!!

dela says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 10:56pm

Box office wise, Nicole Kidman may not be in Jolie/Witherspoon/ Streep league but she gets a bad rap. Foreign box office returns of her last two movies far outstrip domestic grosses. Australia might not have been a blockbuster but it is far from a big flop people are calling it. The Golden Compass was at #13 in worldwide box office despite grossing only 70 million domestically. Nicole Kidman also does lots of niche movies (Dogville, Birth, Fur) that would never find wider audience. I would only certify Invasion and The Stepford Wives (an unnecessary remake) as flops. Basically, her movies do better internationally just like Adam Sandler’s movies are bigger domestic successes.

PS. Even though in last decade foreign box has played a big part in movie business because of sheer number of markets, most people completely ignore it while reporting about box office. Nikkie Finke is quick to call actors box office poison but she never takes their foreign grosses into consideration.

dela says:
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 11:17pm

haqyunus, I like Cynthia Nixon (my favorite SATC actor) and would have loved to see her do this. Unfortunately, this is almost always the case with Broadway plays. People usually underestimate Nixon and she’s really coming into her own as an actor and she’ll land a great movie part in a matter of time. In last few years she has won Emmys, Tony, Grammy and can an Oscar be next? I wouldn’t be surprised if she is singled out for a great supporting turn.
However, I am happy to see Nicole Kidman getting a great role. I think she would be great in the role. She’ll be rewarded if she nails it, esp. if people think she is playing against type.

JCM is an inspired choice for director. But, I desperately want Mike Nichols to direct one of these prize winning plays for big screen. Maybe, he’ll do Osage County.

Afrika says:
Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 2:57am

dela

cynthina nixon has a GRAMMY?

humdinger says:
Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 11:31am

how about sam mendes or jonathan demme to helm this one??

elias says:
Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 1:34pm

43 and 44

John Cameron Mitchell is the director, can’t you read ?

Also, i have to laugh at the idea that the last Kidman films were not hits. Although they did poorly in the US, they did great oversea (The Golden Compass grossed 372 million dollars altogether and Australia 207, how can they be considered flops ?)

Drew says:
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 9:04pm

Nicole is a big International draw. Those International numbers saved the studios of that particular film of hers some red ink. This sounds like a great project for her and hope it happens. I have been hoping Nicole gets back in with Oscar and award contention soon. I am not sure if “Nine” will do the trick for her as I was all but sure ” Australia” would. Poor Nicole didn’t get one nomination for her role as Lady Ashley out of the fifty or more award guilds out there.