Wednesday
Jun202018
Three Questions for Nicole Kidman's Birthday
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 4:58PM 
We went all out for Nicole Kidman's 50th birthday last year with 50 Appropriate Ways to Celebrate so this year on her 51st (happy birthday diva!) we'll keep it simpler.
Answer me these questions three in the comments:
- What's your favorite performance of hers that isn't from her legend-making 2001-2004 run (i.e. The Others-Moulin Rouge!-The Hours-Cold Mountain-Dogville-Birth what a genius run that was!)
- What single scene -- minus the opera seen in Birth --pops into your head the most when her name is invoked?
- What's a performance of hers that you haven't seen (she works so much you're surely missing something!) that you're most curious about?
and if you're on twitter go really crazy and do the 10 question meme
Reader Comments (64)
1. Rabbit Hole
2. The Monologue in stoker tied with the opening scene from Moulin Rouge
3. Portait of a Lady
OK, I'll play too.
(1) Margot at the Wedding - not likable but authentic.
(2) The way she rehearses her weather girl spiel in To Die For. So campy, so delicious.
(3) The Invasion, Just Go With It, Grace of Monaco, How To Talk To Girls at Parties
1. What an impossible question! Between To Die For, Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut, Margot at the Wedding, Rabbit Hole, The Paperboy, and Big Little Lies ... those are all such wonderful and varied performances! I also loved her in Australia and The Beguiled. She really is great , isn't she? Umm ... I'll go with To Die For.
2. So many! But her entrance in Moulin Rouge is iconic--I'll go with that.
3. I have not seen Strangerland and would like to. I hear she is quite good in it--the fact that the film itself received such mixed reviews made me hesitant, and it was released when the quality of her films was more miss-than-hit. I'll give it a shot someday.
As an aside--for those of you who have not seen The Family Fang, give it a shot. I was so pleasantly surprised by this film and thought she was wonderful in it (for what it's worth, I liked her better in this than Lion). It's not a revolutionary masterpiece, but it's a modest little gem.
1) To Die For - should have been nominated!!
2) her scene with J. Phoenix right before dancing to Sweet Home Alabama -- she goes from helpless, seductive with her small laugh and jumps out of the car dancing in the rain...
3) Dogville and Birth (haven't seen either)
I saw Bewitched in a gay sauna. It was a slow night.
1. Rabbit Hole
2. Train station scene in The Hours
3. Portrait of a Lady
I'll do the 10-question meme.
80s or 90s Kidman: To Die For.
Peak Kidman: Hard to choose between Others/Hours/Birth but I'll go with The Hours.
05-18: Hard to choose between Big Little Lies and The Paperboy.
Co-Star: Jude Law.
Repeat director: Amenábar!
BLL Scene: In the car with Skaarsgaard.
Underseen: Does Birth still count?
I'd like to see her do a War of the Roses style dark comedy.
I'd give her three: The Hours, Birth, The Paperboy.
I forgot to choose a new director: Alex Garland or Luca!
Director? Haneke
I have seen most of her movies, but i realllllly need to see Birth again as i only saw that one in theaters and i didn't really got into it. But i'm sure i'd loooooove her performance i f i saw it again. So i bought the DVD last year and i really should watch it because i feel it could step into my top 5 performances from Nicole.
I also need to watch Portrait of a Lady and To Die For again, because i saw them a while ago and i think i wasn't as much into Nicole as i am now.
1) Crazy pick: The Stepford Wives
Yes yes, I fairly know pretty much EVERYONE hates it, but I found it highly entertaining and I'm not sorry for it.
2) Her entrance in Moulin Rouge! of Course!
"The French are glad to die for love…."
3) The Paperboy
1. I could easily say To Die For, but her recent performance in Top of the Lake was truly phenomenal. I didn’t love the overall series as everyone else seemingly does. There were multiple great performances, but Kidman was all jagged edges and ferocity. I saw it right after Big Little Lies, where (like many have notedj she was brilliant in her understatement. With Top of the Lake she swung sharply in the other direction and proved her range and depth yet again.
2. The scene in Moulin Rouge when she meets Ewen. I love her crazy animal sounds!
3. Embarrassingly, Portrait of a Lady.
1. Suzanne Stone in "To Die For" (1995) - BRILLIANT work
2. Her flashes during whole "El Tango De Roxanne" sequence when she gives herself to The Duke & Satine's entrance with "Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend" --- both in "Moulin Rouge!" (2001)
3. "Little Big Lies" (TV series), because I haven't start this series (yet!)
Sonja, I love THE STEPFORD WIVES, too! There were so many reports about how the shoot was arduous, but there's a scene with Kidman, Bette Midler, and Roger Bart, and they look like they're having so much fun. Its trailer was so good that it won an award. I always feel bad that it was both the beginning and end of Faith Hill's acting career.