{"id":27993,"date":"2012-11-15T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=27993"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:19:40","slug":"nicole-kidman-interview-divorce-with-tom-cruise-was-a-shock-to-my-system-27993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/nicole-kidman-interview-divorce-with-tom-cruise-was-a-shock-to-my-system-27993\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman Interview : Divorce with Tom Cruise was a shock to my system"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicole Kidman and 45 year old cute ass on the cover of V<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nicole Kidman gave a sincere interview to Patricia Bosworth from dujour as the academy award-winning actress was preparing to walk across the stage at New York City\u2019s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.<\/h1>\n

New York \/ NationalTurk – Patricia Bosworth from jewish glamour magazine Dujour and Nicole Kidman talk about men, sex, dildos and about life in this Nicole Kidman interview :<\/p>\n

Here is Nicole Kidman interview by Patricia Bosworth ditto ditto<\/h2>\n

Patricia Bosworth :\u00a0<\/strong>I got to know Nicole Kidman six years ago, when she starred as the legendary photographer Diane Arbus in the movie Fur, which was inspired by my biography of Arbus. I was on the set a lot, watching her work; at breaks we spent time together. I was, of course, deeply impressed.<\/p>\n

But that night at Lincoln Center, as the film clips rolled across the screen celebrating her career, I was struck by the variety and richness of her choices\u2014her delight in disguises and in playing women who are not all that sympathetic, like her latest role as the white-trash beauty in The Paperboy. I realized there\u2019s a common strand running through Kidman\u2019s chameleon-like range: her determination to be a character actress rather than a star. More than most of her contemporaries\u2014Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock\u2014Kidman takes chances, whether she\u2019s playing the town masochist in Lars von Trier\u2019s Dogville or wearing a prosthetic nose as the melancholy Virginia Woolf.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s challenging enough to transform herself for every role. Add to that the ongoing struggle to hold on to her creativity in the midst of being a Hollywood icon, a regular on the red carpet, and a mother. Kidman, 45, can endure because of her control. She keeps her private life private. She reveals, but she conceals, too, which is the paradox of celebrity and great acting.<\/p>\n

Nicole Kidman is currently shooting Grace of Monaco, in which she plays late Hollywood legend Princess Grace Kelly.<\/p>\n

However, when she wants to be, she is available and open, and I saw this side of her when we talked between filming scenes for her new movie about Grace Kelly in France. Because she\u2019d been working nonstop for months, I asked her if she wasn\u2019t exhausted.<\/p>\n

The film, directed by Olivier Dahn, focuses on a six-month period when French premiere Charles de Gaulle and Kelly’s husband, Monaco’s Prince Rainier III, were at odds over tax laws in France<\/p>\n

\u201cNo way!\u201d Kidman said with a laugh. \u201cI\u2019m happier than I\u2019ve ever been in my life. I\u2019m living in a friend\u2019s house in Nice. My two daughters are with me, Sunday Rose, who\u2019s 4, and Faith Margaret, who\u2019s 2. My mother is about to fly in from Australia to babysit. Then Keith will be arriving\u2026My family is with me. My family\u201d (right, earlier this year).<\/p>\n

The Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise couple appeared to be solid and adopted two children together – Connor, now 17, and Isabella, now 19. But two months after celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary, Cruise abruptly pulled the plug on the marriage.<\/p>\n

Listening to her talk in that unmistakably Australian accent was like a continuation of the conversations we\u2019d had during the making of Fur. But she has changed. Back then, Kidman told me she was restless. She\u2019d bought a condo on Perry Street in Manhattan\u2019s Greenwich Village but then moved to an apartment in London Terrace because it had a huge indoor pool. For a while she would spend much of her free time in the evenings swimming. She had started to date Keith Urban, and on weekends they would zoom off on his motorcycle and end up in Woodstock. It was the beginning of their romance.<\/p>\n

I was impressed by how genuine she was. She was no longer Mrs. Tom Cruise; she was on her own. She\u2019d become a huge star, she was an Oscar winner for The Hours and she\u2019d become an extremely rich woman. She was then the face of Chanel; she\u2019d just finished doing a series of elegant ads for which she reportedly earned $12 million. But despite all the attention and hoopla, she hadn\u2019t turned into a narcissistic bore, the way so many people do when they become famous.<\/p>\n

And she refused to be pampered, even though on the set she was surrounded by assistants and makeup people whenever I saw her. She was kind and polite to everybody; occasionally she\u2019d glide away and grab two bagels, one for herself, then give the other to her assistant \u201cbecause you haven\u2019t eaten all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Kidman is the nicest lady I ever had to watch,\u201d her bodyguard told me. \u201cI would kill for her.\u201d The bodyguard and I would often crowd around the monitor when Nicole was acting in a scene. She would go into a kind of trance, totally inhabiting the character of Arbus, a driven, trailblazing artist who photographed freaks and eccentrics and committed suicide when she was 48.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m attracted to dark material,\u201d Nicole explains. \u201cWhere the story is full of surprises and twists and turns and the characters get into extreme situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the reasons she agreed to star in The Paperboy, Lee Daniels\u2019 outrageously pulpy melodrama, which The New York Times called \u201ca hot mess.\u201d In Paperboy, Nicole plays mouthy white-trash Charlotte (below, left), who helps two brothers investigate the case of a convicted murderer on death row. Charlotte happens to be hung up on said murderer and has been corresponding with him. In one shocking scene when she visits him in prison, she masturbates; in others she simulates oral sex. And there is the infamous pee scene, in which she urinates on Zac Efron in an effort to treat a stingray wound.<\/p>\n

At Cannes, where the movie first screened, the audience booed and hissed at points but at the end gave it a standing ovation. \u201cDid you know one critic described The Paperboy as the most alienating movie of the year?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s because Paperboy makes audiences uncomfortable,\u201d Nicole says evenly. \u201cBut art should be unsettling.\u201d She goes on, \u201cI am not interested in playing lovable characters. What I am interested in is playing women who are unconventional. Charlotte is complicated and mysterious and, finally, very tragic. All she wanted was love. She thinks she loves this guy; she has this huge fantasy about him\u2014criminals can seem sexy \u2019cause they\u2019re dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

To research the role, Daniels had Kidman talk to his sister, who also has corresponded with convicts. \u201cShe introduced me to a couple of her friends, one of whom had married a convict while he was still in jail. But as soon as he got out, she divorced him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidman enjoyed working with Daniels. \u201cHe helped me choose my tacky wardrobe. I did my own makeup. It\u2019s moment to moment with him. High energy all the way. The picture was low-budget, so we shot everything very fast. No rehearsals.\u201d<\/p>\n

They shot the so-called pee scene on the third day (it is only on the screen for a nanosecond, and it\u2019s actually quite funny). \u201cEven Lee was a little worried about keeping it in the picture, [but] I told him, \u2018You made me pee on Zac and if you don\u2019t put it in the movie, you\u2019re out of your mind!\u2019 During the whole shoot I never talked to the rest of the cast. I mean, I was always in character as Charlotte, never Nicole. It worked. We improvised, too\u2014remember the scene where we were dancing? It just happened. We were sitting in the grass, it started to rain, we started to dance\u2014it was the last scene we shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise cute and sexy couple from 90's<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nicole Kidman : Shock shock system shock i had one after the dicorce with Tom Cruise\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kidman now says of the divorce: “I thought our life together was perfect. It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.”<\/p>\n

Soon after The Paperboy, Kidman filmed a thriller called Stoker, about a mother and daughter obsessed with the same man. Kidman wanted to work with Park Chanwook, the top director in Korea (his film Oldboy won the Grand Prix at Cannes). \u201cWe didn\u2019t communicate at all. Park doesn\u2019t speak English, but he has a translator.\u201d Nicole hasn\u2019t seen Stoker yet, but I have. She excels in her portrayal of a jealous, grieving widow. Next up: a supporting role in a movie called The Railway Man with Colin Firth, which has just completed shooting in Thailand.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now you\u2019re in Grace of Monaco?\u201d I said, dizzied by this array of characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I\u2019ll be in France till the end of the year,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s being directed by Olivier Dahan, who directed La Vie en Rose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrace Kelly was a fashion icon of the Fifties,\u201d I noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wore simple, classic clothes\u2014shirtwaist dresses, flowing gowns\u2014and now you\u2019re playing Grace and you\u2019re a fashion icon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, no I\u2019m not!\u201d Kidman protested. \u201cI love fashion, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m fashionable\u2014I mean, not in my private life.\u201d In her 20s, Kidman got to know Alexander McQueen and John Galliano and went to their showrooms to support their work. \u201cThat\u2019s when I fell in love with couture.\u201d Nonetheless, she says, \u201cat home I dress for comfort. After all, I am the mother of two small children.\u201d I asked her: \u201cWhen you were growing up, did you ever dream you\u2019d be playing one-of-a-kind women like Princess Grace Kelly and Virginia Woolf and Martha Gellhorn?\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI have always been a very big dreamer,\u201d Nicole laughs.<\/p>\n

Nicole Kidman was born on June 20, 1967, to Australian parents living in Hawaii. Her mother, Janelle, is a nursing instructor; her father, Antony, is a biochemist. She has a younger sister, Antonia. Not long after Kidman was born, she and her family moved back to Australia and settled in a middle-class suburb of Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were a close-knit family\u2014still are,\u201d she says. She was raised Catholic and remains devout. Growing up, she was strongly influenced by the Ten Commandments, \u201cwhich I still live by today,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs kids we were treated like grownups. We discussed all sorts of things. Mother was a feminist\u2014this was during the height of the women\u2019s movement, and she was very passionate and very articulate about women not being equal members of society simply because we are women. That\u2019s why I am working for the United Nations now as a spokesperson for Unifem. It\u2019s in tribute to my mother.\u201d Unifem is an organization fighting the prejudice and violence against women around the world.<\/p>\n

By the time she was in her teens, Kidman was tall\u20145-foot-10. She had wild, curly red hair and skin so white she was told not to go out in the sun. She stayed home a lot reading novels, \u201cwhich were a huge escape for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 13, Kidman began to study acting at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, and later she studied at Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, where she met Naomi Watts, who became one of her closest friends. Her parents would have preferred her to go into medicine or law. \u201c \u2018Don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to drive you to class,\u2019 they said. So I had to take two buses to get there. Which was good. I had to really show them this is what I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

She took on all sorts of roles, including Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. By the time she graduated from high school, she was working in TV and low-budget movies. She took a summer off to tour in Paris and Amsterdam. That same year her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Kidman stayed with her while she had chemotherapy. \u201cMy mother is the most powerful force in my life,\u201d she says now. \u201cShe\u2019s the most influential person. I think my biggest motivation is to make her proud of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1987 Kidman\u2019s career took off with an Australian miniseries called Vietnam. Two years later, she was cast in the film Dead Calm, which required her to outfox, outsail and outfight a psychotic interloper. She was nude in one sequence, and everyone noticed her\u2014including Tom Cruise, who saw Dead Calm in Hollywood and arranged to meet her. At this point Cruise was one of the biggest stars in the world, and he had just divorced Mimi Rogers.<\/p>\n

They were married in 1990. She was 23. \u201cI was reeling with Tom. I would have gone to the ends of the earth for him.\u201d But looking back on it now, she adds, \u201cI was so impulsive and na\u00efve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming off his blockbusters Top Gun and The Color of Money, he cast her in his movie Days of Thunder and swept her off her feet. \u201cI was totally smitten\u2014I fell madly, passionately in love,\u201d she told me without hesitation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine how much her life changed after that. She went from being a giddy, free-spirited redhead to the sleek, well-groomed wife of a Hollywood superstar, tirelessly cultivating a celebrity lifestyle on a grand scale (the couple, right, in 1990). They had houses in L.A.\u2019s Pacific Palisades and Telluride, Colorado. There were private planes and limousines and bodyguards and hangers-on and yes-people.<\/p>\n

Kidman insists she was happy during most of her marriage, but she was always aware of the glaring spotlight that came with his outsized fame. They were watched constantly. The paparazzi were always ready to pounce. The gossip columns were filled with speculation about them. They became known for their highly controlled public appearances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in a bubble,\u201d she tells me, \u201cjust the two of us. We became very dependent on one another.\u201d Early on she suffered an ectopic pregnancy, and when she had trouble conceiving again, she and Cruise adopted a daughter, Isabella, in 1992 and a son, Connor, in 1995 (below, left, in January 2012) Cruise continued to star in blockbusters like A Few Good Men. Nicole was in movies too, but she believed her real identity was as Mrs. Tom Cruise. That changed with To Die For, a black comedy directed by Gus Van Sant. Kidman was funny, sexy and rather frightening. She followed it with an equally impressive performance as heiress Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, directed by Jane Campion.<\/p>\n

Suddenly Kidman realized she was fulfilling herself creatively. Finally.<\/h4>\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t before,\u201d she tells me now.<\/p>\n

From then on, she was determined to juggle many roles\u2014wife, mother, artist. In 1996 she and Cruise picked up their entire household and moved to London to work with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut, about a married couple who go on a bizarre sexual journey to shake up their marriage.<\/p>\n

They were supposed to work on the movie for five months; they ended up being in England for close to two years. When they weren\u2019t filming for long hours, Kidman and Cruise would hang out with Kubrick in his huge estate talking about everything under the sun. \u201cStanley got to know us very well,\u201d Kidman says. \u201cHe had a way of challenging us, of breaking down our defenses.\u201d<\/p>\n

I remind her of a long scene midway through the picture where she and Cruise are accusing each other of infidelities.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were half-naked and laughing hysterically,\u201d I said. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t stop; you practically fell on the floor laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, yes!\u201d Kidman exclaims. \u201dI was hysterical. We filmed that particular scene for over three weeks. I think Stanley shot 300 takes! It was an exhausting project, but in the end everyone felt they accomplished something special. I know critics think the movie is dark, but I think there is hope. Stanley was emphasizing the importance of loyalty and commitment in a marriage, that marriage is a relationship that has to transcend sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Months later the rough cut was screened for them when they were in New York. \u201cIt was fantastic, I thought,\u201d Kidman says. \u201cI wanted to tell Stanley, but it was late, so I decided I would call him later.\u201d The next morning they received word that Kubrick had died in his sleep. \u201cI was devastated.\u201d she recalls, then says urgently: \u201cWe don\u2019t talk enough about death and loss and grieving and how to survive. Death and loss reverberate so much in my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next two years were intense. Kidman had a triumphant run in a play by David Hare in London called The Blue Room, and she repeated that success when the show went to Broadway. Then she spent nine months in Australia with Baz Luhrmann for the musical Moulin Rouge, followed immediately by filming for The Others, a horror story in which she portrayed a terrorized mother trying to care for her two strange little children in a haunted house set on an island. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for each, and won for Moulin Rouge.<\/p>\n

In December 2000 Kidman and Cruise celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary with friends. \u201cI thought our life together was perfect,\u201d she says. But just two months later, Cruise abruptly announced he was leaving her. The marriage was over. No explanation except an enigmatic \u201cNic knows why.\u201d She pleaded with him to stay, to no avail.<\/p>\n

All hell broke loose when the media got wind of the breakup. The press wouldn\u2019t leave her alone. She asked her sister to fly in from Australia. She felt she had lost her identity; she was afraid that no one would speak to her now that Tom was gone. For months the press clamored for an explanation. All they got from Kidman was a statement when she appeared on Good Morning America: \u201cI\u2019m a person who carries everything that happens to me in the past into the future. But I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love, and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now she admits, \u201cIt took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.\u201d<\/p>\n

She braved Cannes when Moulin Rouge opened there in May 2001, even appearing at a lavish party under a giant circus tent to celebrate the picture, which was receiving raves for its lush d\u00e9cor and Kidman\u2019s volatile performance.<\/p>\n

But she had a difficult time filming The Hours, her next movie. She was in agony during the entire shoot as she embodied the suicidal writer Virginia Woolf, who descends into perpetual melancholy. Her valiant work paid off. The film got impressive reviews, including one in The New York Times for Nicole, which read, \u201cKidman tunnels like a ferret into the soul of a woman besieged by excruciating bouts of mental illness. As you watch her wrestle with the demon of depression, it\u2019s as if its torment has never been shown on the screen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

For that acclaimed protrayal, Kidman won her third Golden Globe and the Academy Award for best actress of 2002. She was the first Australian actress to win an Oscar, and her emotional acceptance speech emphasized the importance of art: \u201cWhy do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important, and because you believe in what you do, and you want to honor that. It\u2019s a tradition that needs to be upheld.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now what she remembers most about that Oscar night is that she went with her parents. She left the ceremony feeling very sad and alone. Kidman admitted to me: \u201cI realized I didn\u2019t want to be alone. I wanted to fall in love again, but I wasn\u2019t sure I could.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the next three years, she escaped into her work with movies like Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier on a bare soundstage. She starred in The Human Stain opposite Anthony Hopkins, playing a tough-talking janitor. She made The Stepford Wives, The Interpreter for Sydney Pollack, Bewitched for Nora Ephron.<\/p>\n

When she met Keith Urban while filming Fur, she says, \u201cMy life changed. He is a wonderful, caring man and he makes me feel secure. We don\u2019t ever like to be separated.\u201d<\/p>\n

They were married on June 25, 2006, in Sydney, and they currently make their home in Nashville, Tennessee, in a big gray house with a pool and tennis court and movie theatre. The couple\u2019s first daughter, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, was born July 7, 2008, in Nashville.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving my baby has been a healing experience,\u201d she says. \u201cIt took me so long to have a child. I feel enormous gratitude. Sunday has healed an enormous amount in me. It\u2019s a very private thing, but she just has.\u201d Kidman and Urban had their second daughter two years later.<\/p>\n

These days, when she\u2019s not working and in Nashville, Kidman hosts a weekly baby group with her daughters and other mothers and their children. \u201cWe have a wonderful home life,\u201d she says (right, the couple in Cannes in May 2012). \u201cThere\u2019s always music. Keith plays the guitar and piano and drums. He\u2019s always composing music. It\u2019s lovely when you have a baby who picks up the drumsticks and plays\u2013wearing angel wings.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help but ask the question: \u201cYour life seems to contain everything now, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, yes!\u201d she answers. \u201cAnd it\u2019s my life. Before, I was running away from life. Now I embrace it. You never know how long you have. So I cherish every minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

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