WITH two much-hyped premieres behind her, Australian Nicole
Kidman is this year's Queen of Cannes.And tonight she is up for the best
actress award for her role in The Paperboy which could also take out the film
festival's top prize."I had not seen The Paperboy and I now see why it is
controversial," Kidman told The Sunday Telegraph.
The 44-year-old mother of four is talking about the steamy
Deep South thriller in which she plays a bottle-blonde nymphomaniac who
indulges in a graphic act of auto-eroticism with a prisoner and has bruising
sex on top of a washing machine.
In one scene, she also urinates - in close-up - on former
Disney star Zac Efron after he is stung by a jellyfish."I wanted to go try
something and be dangerous and try to shake it up," said Kidman, who
watched the film for the first time at the Cannes premiere with husband Keith
Urban by her side.
"Because I'm in a place where I want to stimulate
myself, you know, and so that film was stimulating to me."I was down in
New Orleans, I was working with John Cusack, I was working with Zac Efron, and
Lee (Daniels, the director) is a force to be reckoned with, he's on fire,"
she said.
There's more hot-and-bothered sex in Hemingway &
Gellhorn, the second Kidman movie to have its world premiere this week.As the
famed war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, she bares all in a number of explicit
sex scenes with Clive Owen's Ernest Hemingway. The HBO production will air on
Foxtel's Showcase in Australia on September 9.
"Both films are controversial I suppose,"Kidman
said.
Meanwhile, Kylie Minogue shed her pop-pixie mantle for a
role in the weird and rapturously received French indie Holy Motors, while the
sparkly Australian musical The Sapphires received a 10-minute standing ovation
at its premiere here.
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