Nicole Kidman is returning to Broadway – to play an ageing, man-eating movie star. The actress, who famously stripped naked in stage production The Blue Room in 1998, will star in Sweet Bird of Youth. The revival of the Tennessee Williams-written play will debut next autumn. It will be directed by David Cromer, according to [...]
Lucy Punch’s burgeoning career got another boost with the announcement she will star opposite Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher. Punch, 32, is an up-and-coming actress who is shooting Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger in place of Australian superstar Nicole Kidman. Punch has now been cast with Diaz in the black comedy [...]
With little light shining on Australia’s actors ahead of the Oscars, Abbie Cornish was being held out as her homeland’s only chance. Bright Star, the movie featuring 27-year-old Cornish and directed by Jane Campion, has already received warm praise from critics for its tackling of a 19th-century passion between the poet, John Keats, and Fanny [...]
In 1997 Princess Diana died in a car crash whilst being chased by the paparazzi. Yesterday, Nicole Kidman testified against photographer Jamie Fawcett, claiming that she feared for her life as Fawcett ?chased? her car through Sydney in 1995. This evokes thought; is Miss Kidman a drama queen, making a big deal out of nothing [...]
