Nicole Kidman

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LK and I have a divided opinion of Nicole Kidman, I found this on Perez and I think it can start a pretty interesting discussion:


From The Times
November 20, 2008
Nicole Kidman drifts about like a lost porcelain doll
There is a fatal error in the casting of Australia's epic of self-promotion
Melanie Reid

Oh dear, oh dear. The Australians are investing a huge amount of expectation, and many millions of promotional dollars, in an epic movie intended to reinvigorate tourism and a sense of national pride.
You know the kind of thing. Great raw, soaring landscapes, wild brumbies, rough blokes, mystical Aborigines, a gorgeous sheila, fair bit of Foster's. Sort of Crocodile Dundee with gravitas, or Picnic at Hanging Rock with sex - and therefore, in most people's eyes, a potential hit.
Australia the movie, however, has one huge problem. It stars Nicole Kidman. Big mistake. Big, big mistake. At a stroke, the world's female cinemagoers will say as one: “I'm not going to see it if she's in it.”
Kidman is one of those women who turns other women off. And no, not just because she's pretty and we're jealous. It is because we perceive, and men don't, that she's one of the most overrated actors in the world, a woman who has been the kiss of death in practically every movie she has starred in.
Background
Kidman is exquisitely accomplished at being awful. Did anyone see Cold Mountain? The sweeping American epic (note: another epic) foundered on the rocks of her gormless mirror-gaze. She can't act. Instead, she drifts around films like a lost porcelain doll, looking frozen, brittle and vapid, staring at the camera with her oh-golly-look-how-I'm-looking-interesting blue eyes.
And today's (predominantly male) directors haven't quite woken up to the fact that it just isn't enough for female actors just to wander around like supermodels: they need another skill too. Like emotion.
Kidman was said to be superb in To Die For. She was merely cold and brittle in a part that demanded it. That doesn't make her a comic genius. She managed to make Eyes Wide Shut - that “odyssey of sexual and moral discovery” with Tom Cruise - without creating a single intellectual or sexual spark.
Swiftly, she specialised in not-very-good thrillers about obsessives and haunted women. She gave good red carpet. Kidman became a cipher for men's desires; she simpered, gasped and screamed just as any helpless Hitchcockian blonde victim should.
But Kidman is guilty of something else. Not only did she get away with it, but she has spawned a genre of similarly flawless female actors who pout and scream very beautifully, but cannot act to save their lives: Gwyneth Paltrow, Keira Knightley - with faces like atrophied dolls, capable of adjusting their emotions only on direction; the biggest screen turn-offs in decades.
Australia the country deserves redder blood than this.

I'll admit that there is a certain coldness and quietness in Nicoles performance but they are not all the same
1. "The Hours" for which she won an Oscar. She transformed herself physically and while the character is a rather sad one, she is not blank....actually she is quite the opposite.
2. "The Others" which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama" and "Best Actress" at the Las Vegas Film Critics Circle.
3. "Practical Magic" while the film is not that great, she is fun and refreshing as a sexually liberated woman who is unafraid to push peoples buttons and be herself.
4. "Moulin Rouge!" her is campy, dramatic, sympathetic and seductive. She was nominated and won the Golden Globe for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Comedy or Musical" and was nominated for the Academy Award, she was second to win to Halle Berry.

So lets not criticize Nicole's acting ability, sure her face is very hard (talk about that) and she needs to (like Gwyneth) pick better scripts, but she is not a bad actress at all. For the record, I wanna see "Austrailia."

LK what do you think?