Fiennes to get an ‘erotic awakening’ from Nicole Kidman?

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She’s going to go from filming “Australia” for 6 months straight into another movie roll that will most likely be shot in Germany? Does she give any consideration to her husband or children? And her character has an affair with a 15 year old boy? Her own daughter is going to be 15 this year. I find this revolting. Especially after Birth. And isn’t she the same woman who always claimed she was going to slow down once she got married and how desperately she wanted to have a child? She’s been working practically non-stop since she got married. Kidman is clealy somebody who should not be married or have children. She needs to get her priorities together and stop screwing up other people’s lives.

Comment by Stacy | August 18, 2007

Oh my god…the only thing I find revolting is your comment

Comment by Luisa | August 18, 2007

Why is that Luisa? Because you know what was said is the truth? Nicole does need to get her priorities straight. She has for a long time. An affair with a 15 year old kid? Yeah, that’s pretty disgusting.

Comment by Max | August 18, 2007

So Nicole and Tom were probably a better match than I’d thought.

I wouldn’t be so hard on Luisa everyone. Nicole Kidman’s already gone through one husband and she would hardly be the first blonde star to become erratic and irresponsible in her personal life -there seems to be an epidemic of that lately. Why dog the woman out for doing her job?

Nicole Kidman hasn’t had a hit since The Hours and that was only a critical success, hardly a blockbuster. She’s trying to snap up as many roles as she can in the hopes that something will make her certified “bankable” again. Because right now she’s in serious danger of becoming “supporting” actress-only material -her asking price will certainly have to fall if she finishes the year with no hits, same as Jim Carrey.
She only makes two, maybe three movies a year, that’s nine, maybe ten months out of the year that she’s “working,” though I don’t think acting is stressful as most people’s jobs are. Most Americans don’t get two months vacation, or even two weeks, Ms Kidman does. She’s hardly a workaholic and I don’t think she’s neglecting anyone. Let’s everyone get a grip and calm down folks.

Comment by JaySmack | August 18, 2007

Thanks JaySmack… this comment made by Stacy clearly shows that those patriarchal ideas about what women should and shouldn’t do are still very much in place.
Let’s be honest, who would write such a comment about a male actor who works loads more than Nicole Kidman, who does more than 3 or 4 movies a year! I have never heard anyone say that he works too much and so should not be married or have children.
And who would care if a male actor would play a character, who has an affair with a 15teen year old?????? Of course in real life this shouldn’t happen (and clearly it is more accepted for older men to have (much) younger girlfriends, than the other way around = again patriarchal ideas), but it’s a movie and a movie should tell a story, unpleasant or pleasant, and it’s the actors and directors job to show us their point of view on the story. And if someone feels uncomfortable to watch something very delicate like this then don’t go and see it. There are still loads of ‘hollywood’-movies out there for people like that.
On top of that, as far as I know, is her husband with her in Australia. And nobody of us has any right to criticise her qualities as mother or wife, as we don’t her personally or do you?
And Stacy, whose life is she screwing up??????????????? Her children? Till now they seem both very much okay and Tom Cruise and herself did all they could to keep them away from this whole Hollywood-circus or have you heard much of them over the last years?
Keith Urban? He married her, he knows what her job is like, I mean he is himself in showbiz, he’s not stupid.
So whose life is she actually screwing up??

Comment by Luisa | August 18, 2007

Luisa, you’re right–
“Let’s be honest, who would write such a comment about a male actor who works loads more than Nicole Kidman, who does more than 3 or 4 movies a year!”
Nobody in Hollywood works more than George Clooney. How many movies has he made in the last eighteen months alone? Six, I believe. And he just got through with Micael Clayton and he’s already off to do another one! Is he neglecting his family?

The highly overrated Shia LeBouf has made four movies in the last eighteen months, and is working on Indiana jones right now. I wonder if anyone will say he’s neglecting his family? Probably not.

Forest Whittaker has made three movies in the last twelve months (he’s currently down here in my hometown filming The Great Debaters with denzels :D ) and next he’s off to do Night Watch. He has a family. Yet he’s made no promises to slow down. Is he a workaholic? Is he neglecting his wife and children? I think not.

And what’s so “revolting” and “disgusting” about her portraying a romantic affair between a teacher and her student? It’s called acting, it isn’t the real thing. Dakota Fanning did a rape scene in her last movie, and she’s only twelve. Jeremy Irons did Lolita and I didn’t hear anyone complaining. The movie and the book it’s based on are considered classics. I saw Notes On a Scandal, it was pretty good. Heck, it’s becoming commonplace in the States these days, where female teachers treat their classrooms like singles bars. Let’s see the movie before we decided to stone Nicole.

Oh, and Luisa I agree. There’s definitely a double-standard. See Lolita/Notes on a Scandal. Besides, in these kinds of stories the boy is portrayed as the aggressor, the one seducing the woman (that’s how it was in Notes) and I’m sure it will be the same way in this movie.

Comment by JaySmack | August 19, 2007

JaySmack…I agree with almost everything you said, only I think that Shia LaBeouf is not overrated. I’ve seen him in ‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints’ and he was simply great. ‘Transformers’ wasn’t really a challenging job for any actor but I am sure he will do some really good acting stuff in the future

Comment by Luisa | August 19, 2007

I completely agree. This is more of the kind of work I like to see Kidman doing. She’s so much better in these films than in the blockbuster.

Comment by Marina | August 20, 2007

Wow, I’m not sure where some of these comments came from (particularly the very first one!) - quite unexpected to read something so condescending after reading the tiny article.

Nicole Kidman is making another movie. That’s so weird, her being an actress and all. And I guess there have never been any actresses in the history of film who worked and also raised a family.

And her playing someone who has an affair with a 15yo. Hmm, I guess that means she is a disgusting and terrible person and should be ashamed of herself. With that completely and ignorantly flawed logic, what does that say about, oh, I don’t know, nearly every single actor on the planet?

Hmm, I guess they’re all terrible for playing people like Idi Amin, Aileen Wuornos, Count Laszlo de Almásy. Or, how about Hannibal Lecter or Voldemort for frig sakes?

Wow, some folks need to get a grip and stop preaching about (to?) people they don’t even know. The only things that you, Stacy, know about Nicole Kidman, are things you’ve read on the internet or in People magazine, or stories you’ve seen on Entertainment Tonight. How can you be so judgemental about her? You don’t know how she is with her children. You don’t know how her children feel. Who are you to say who can cannot be married or have children? What does it matter if she’s decided to continue working?

I could go on, but… wow. Just wow.

Comment by Matt | August 21, 2007

i have job for actor thanks

Comment by cernamoritz gabriel | May 29, 2008

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