After getting a severe Ass Whipping by the critics for her latest roll in Australia, 41 year old actress Nichole Kidman says she will call it quits. Kidman says she’s leaving Hollywood to focus on raising her family.
Nichole Kidman – Hugh Jackman
The film with People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” Hugh Jackman was blasted by the critics. In the film, the Australian actress plays the part of Lady Sarah Astley in (An unforgiving role, as she is required to portray a class-bound English aristocrat who succumbs to the charms of a rough Aussie drover, played by reigning hunk Hugh Jackman.)
Melanie Reid – The Times of London the movie has one huge problem: “Kidman is exquisitely accomplished at being awful. Did anyone see Cold Mountain? The sweeping American epic (note: another epic) foundered on the rocks of her gormless mirror-gaze. She can’t act. Instead, she drifts around films like a lost porcelain doll, looking frozen, brittle and vapid, staring at the camera with her oh-golly-look-how-I’m-looking-interesting blue eyes.”
Michael Phillips – Chicago Tribune the actress is “a brittle little snip just asking to be knocked off her pedestal. (Think Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen, without the facial expressivity.”
Nick Curtis – London Evening Standard “Sarah is not so much a character as a showcase for Kidman’s worst acting tics, all her prissy pouts and expressions of Botoxed startlement. And despite a wardrobe designed to offset her Barbie-perfect bosom, bottom and ironing-board hips, she has mutated into a curiously sexless screen presence.”
Germaine Greer – The Guardian “The scale of the disaster that is Baz Luhrmann’s Australia is gradually becoming apparent. When the film was released in Australia in November it found the odd champion, none more conspicuous than Marcia Langton, professor of Australian indigenous studies at Melbourne University, who frothed and foamed in the Age newspaper about this ‘fabulous, hyperbolic film.’ Luhrmann has ‘given Australians a new past,’ she gushed, “a myth of national origin that is disturbing, thrilling, heartbreaking, hilarious and touching”. Myths are by definition untrue. Langton knows the truth about the northern cattle industry but evidently sees as her duty to ignore it, and welcome a fraudulent and misleading fantasy in its place, possibly because the fantasy is designed to promote the current government policy of reconciliation, of which she is a chief proponent.”
We think Nichole could have shown a little more “Skin” (Tits & Ass).
Warning: Contains Graphic Nudity
Nichole Kidman Naked!
