# On Nicole Kidman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186 "2008-03-29T18:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/21 "2008-03-29T23:25:39Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Range? What range? She does upper class, white, blonde female fairly well. Other than that–I don’t see a range. Renee Zellwegger and Meryl Streep, as well as Susan Sarandon have much, much deeper ranges than Ms Kidman. [/quote] Well, she was matched up against Streep ( and another fine actress, Julianne Moore ) in _The Hours_ and she was the one who walked away with an Oscar ;). I’d have to agree with **Fiver** - she has shown rather more versatility and range than just the upper-class Ice Queen ( which she does play to a tee ). > [@](#): > > And she has lousy taste in men. Oh, piffle. I mean, sure, granted - but being a freak doesn’t stop me from watching Tom Cruise in film ( _Far and Away_ did kinda suck, though ). Even poor Katie Holmes was good in _Pieces of April_ :). > [@](#): > > I won’t go see a movie just because she’s in it. Well, fair enough. We all have actors we don’t cotton to. I think Leonardo diCaprio is talented, but he somehow creeps me out on some undefinable level. And Jan-Michael Vincent used to make me shudder with horror :p. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/22 "2008-03-29T23:55:03Z")
_To Die For_ was by far my favorite movie that she was in. I don’t like most of the others, so if you’re a Kidman hater and you haven’t seen it, try it. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/23 "2008-03-30T01:41:28Z")
Leo creeps me out, too. 🙂 I doubt I’ll get much chance to see To Die For–it’s from 1995. My local video store doesn’t tend to keep older films unless they won Oscars and/or were very popular. I do wish (having looked it up) that I had seen it, since I like satire. Then again, NK seems to be ice bitch queen in TDF as well, no? 🙂 But I cannot watch Bewitched. 1. I loathe Will Ferrell and 2. I loved Elizabeth Montgomery so much that I don’t want to see anyone play her. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/24 "2008-03-30T03:30:40Z")
Nicole was looking pretty good when I saw her last Sunday [at the church](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23421982-10388,00.html) around the corner from my place. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/25 "2008-03-30T04:13:56Z")
I liked her best in **Cold Mountain**. Renee Zellweger got more buzz, and she was fantastic, but the character of Ruby was custom made for chewing scenery. Kidman did just as good a job with a more understated role. I also think **Eyes Wide Shut** was a high point. She managed to be dreamily seductive yet cold at the same time. Too bad the script for that movie fizzled; it was a real attention-grabber most of the way through. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/26 "2008-03-30T06:11:52Z")
Oh Nicole. Why Tom Cruise? I could have made you happy. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/27 "2008-03-30T07:15:24Z")
I see a movie yet to be mentioned is [“Malice” (1993)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107497/) Oh she is a conniving ice princess in that one, as well as “To Die For”. Yes, she is incredibly beautiful and I know she is a natural redhead because I’ve … uh … slept with her … several times. Yeah that’s the ticket. 🙂 I trust that some of you will remember that Jon Lovitz compulsive liar character Tommy Flanagan, whom I was imitating. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/28 "2008-03-30T07:38:30Z")
Nicole Kidman + young + naked = _Dead Calm_. Manduck sez check it out! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/29 "2008-03-30T15:54:54Z")
I thought she was great in The Human Stain. She played beautifully off of Anthony Hopkins And she was waaaaay out of her element and pulled it off perfectly, in my opinion. I find her positively stunning as long as she’s not wearing that godawful tight hair. That’s just NOT cuttin’ it. It doesn’t cut it with anyone, as far as I’m concerned, but on her, I just want to go up to her and loosen that fuckin’ ponytail. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/30 "2008-03-30T16:18:35Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Nicole was looking pretty good when I saw her last Sunday [at the church](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23421982-10388,00.html) around the corner from my place. [/QUOTE] “Dusting off her mum skills”? wth? Where are her kids? I can’t figure out if the article is trying to get a dig in re her parenting or if the “journalist” has forgotten that she has at least 2 kids already. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/31 "2008-03-30T17:14:03Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] > [@Fiver](#): > > Then you haven’t seen either To Die For or Birthday Girl. True, dat. But I have no desire to–she’s not someone I look for in film. YMMV. [/QUOTE] So then, your claim that she has no range is based on a refusal to see the films in which she demonstrates it? I accuse you of un-Doperlike behavior! Another thing I like about Nicole Kidman: she has size 11 feet. That makes me and my 9.5 to 10-sized feet feel a little less freakish. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/32 "2008-03-30T17:19:46Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] I thought she was great in The Human Stain. She played beautifully off of Anthony Hopkins And she was waaaaay out of her element [/QUOTE] Hopkins was even further out of his element. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/33 "2008-03-30T18:21:30Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] I got to thinking and also realised that this lady has not been involved, as far I recall, in any scandals . . . [/QUOTE] I dunno, I think marriage to Tom Cruise, just by definition . . . ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/34 "2008-03-30T18:57:10Z")
Agreed about the botox wax museum effect. She’s overdone. Also, the dyed blond hair combined with naturally pale skin washes out her features making her look oh-so-bland. Exactly what the hell are fair-skinned redheads thinking when they go blond? It looks horrendous and a good majority of us pay big money to go red. IMHO, she looked her best in _Dead Calm_, when she was natural and un-Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/35 "2008-03-30T20:53:30Z")
I don’t see a film because she’s in it, I’m indifferent. I also agree about the too much botox, she’s getting scary looking. I just don’t see why we need a Nicole Kidman when we have a Cate Blanchett. Beautiful and talented and not weird enough to have ever married Tom Cruise. She’s my new girl crush. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/36 "2008-03-30T21:17:40Z")
Her current plastic looks actually seem to be an advantage as in _Fur: An Completely Bogus and Inane Portrait of Someone Who Isn’t Diane Arbus_. She had that so-retro-she-looks-artificial appearance. No love for her looks in _The Hours_? But, her best performance will always be as a bridesmaid in the “Bop Girl” video. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/37 "2008-03-30T21:23:39Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] “Dusting off her mum skills”? wth? Where are her kids? I can’t figure out if the article is trying to get a dig in re her parenting or if the “journalist” has forgotten that she has at least 2 kids already. 😕 [/QUOTE] Presumably the ex had them that weekend. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/38 "2008-03-30T22:39:50Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] IMHO, she looked her best in _Dead Calm_, when she was natural and un-Hollywood. [/QUOTE] In all fairness, she was also about 23 in that movie. Hollywood tends not to like their 40 year old women to look 40. Kidman looks good in her films, but she looks freakish in interviews. It’s kind of like when Meg Ryan went from being America’s sweetheart to “that weird lady with the grotesque lips”. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/39 "2008-03-31T01:57:13Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] So then, your claim that she has no range is based on a refusal to see the films in which she demonstrates it? I accuse you of un-Doperlike behavior! Another thing I like about Nicole Kidman: she has size 11 feet. That makes me and my 9.5 to 10-sized feet feel a little less freakish. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m not about to join Netflix just to request this film. I am perfectly fine with the opinion that she shows more range in films I haven’t seen. I can only hope it’s true. I agree re the hair and the skin–and she is very striking in her natural coloring. I haven’t seen Meg Ryan in a long time–she has scary lips now? Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186/40 "2008-03-31T04:04:14Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Yeah well form an orderly queue and remember I’m ahead of you [/QUOTE] On what day did you join the queue? I’m warning you, I know the exact date I did, and it was a long time ago. Come on, we want the facts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-nicole-kidman/443186.md?page=3)