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This Cultural Life

Nicole Kidman

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Oscar winner Nicole Kidman talks to John Wilson about the influence on her career of working with great film-makers.

Since her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm, Nicole Kidman has played a hugely diverse array of roles, in arthouse films like Lars Von Trier’s Dogville and blockbusters including Paddington. She discusses her long friendship with Jane Campion, who directed her in Portrait of a Lady, and the impact of working with Stanley Kubrick, who she became close to after she and her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, starred in Eyes Wide Shut.

Kidman recalls the making of Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge and Stephen Daldry's The Hours, the film for which she won the best actress Academy Award for playing Virginia Woolf. She also discusses the excitement and fear she experienced on the London stage in the plays The Blue Room and Photograph 51. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Nicole Kidman
Editor:
Robin Keam
Series Editor:
Timothy Prosser
Producer:
Edwina Pitman
Director:
Mark Ward

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