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10Jan2009

Nicole Kidman Also Thinks She Was Lousy in 'Australia'

DateSaturday, January 10, 2009 at 1:27AM
It turns out, Nicole Kidman had the same reaction to Australia as the rest of us. In a recent radio interview, Kidman said, "I can't look at this movie and be proud of what I've done...I sat there and I looked at [husband Keith Urban] and went 'Am I any good in this movie?'"

While I didn't think it was all Kidman's fault, she sure wasn't anything special and Australia was hardly the movie a lot of us expected. It was bloated, undone by its own desire to be great and meaningful. But the story was problematic for director Baz Luhrmann, who should have placed more restrictions on an "epic" story.

Kidman actually says the only two films she's watched in her career are Australia and her other Baz collaboration, Moulin Rouge!, which I find difficult to accept. She doesn't throw her director or her cast members under the bus with Australia, pointing out that Hugh Jackman and young Brandon Walters are "wonderful" in the movie, but countered by saying, "It's just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all."

Once again, Kidman and I see eye to eye.

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