![]() She has often spoken about loving the experience of filming this Baz Luhrmann musical more than anything else she has been in, and it shows on screen. This was the film that elevated Kidman from a beautiful movie star to a screen-burning, Elizabeth Taylor-like goddess. Thanks to her passion for auteur directors and prickly, difficult characters, she became one of Hollywood’s most indestructible mega-stars – reliably brilliant, fearless in her approach, working consistently but never feeling overexposed. Even a run of notorious disasters (RIP Bewitched) didn’t dent her. She then had the greatest divorce in history – professionally-speaking at least – with back-to-back hits and an Oscar in its wake. Thirty years ago, she was the Australian import on the arm of Tom Cruise, who was then the most famous movie star in the world, her own acting roles largely one-note. It’s meant that she has transformed herself, chameleon-like, through the kinds of narratives that would normally take down actors of her renown. Kidman is famously inscrutable, her distant unknowability linked to her power on screen. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Nicole Kidman declined to entertain questions about the “culture” of female superstardom, brushing away the interviewer’s insistence that she is one of the only living women to embody “the glamorous Hollywood star” in the public eye.
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