Nicole Kidman often gets an unfair press, but an attack on her casting in Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia by a London columnist is way, way over the top.
Slamming Nic as one of the world’s most over-rated actors. the Times’ Melanie Reed claims females– all of them, apparently–won’t go to see Australia simply because she’s in it.
“Kidman is one of those women who turns other women off,” the bitchy Reed says. “She is exquisitely accomplished at being awful.”
Mad Melanie names Cold Mountain, To Die For and Eyes Wide Shut among Nicole’s so-called worst performances– overlooking the fact that millions of people enjoyed them.
And she ignores The Hours, for which Nicole deservedly won an Oscar, and Moulin Rouge!, which earned her an Oscar nomination.
Prejudice and ignorance are not the hallmarks of a professional journalist, Melanie. And it isn’t even clear from her article whether she’d actually seen Australia when she wrote the poisonous article.
The Times’ critic Anne Barrowlcough didn’t pan Nicole’s acting, and she hailed the movie as depicting an Australia of the 1940s that is “at once compellingly beautiful and breathtakingly cruel.”
Her review concludes, “Australian audiences
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