It’s arduous to think about a star as large as Nicole Kidman being turned down for any function in 2024.
Apparently, although, that hasn’t all the time been the case.
Whereas selling her TV present The Undoing in 2020, the Oscar winner informed Marie Claire she had been eager to land a job in a sure iconic rom-com again within the 90s, however received turned down.
“I actually needed the function that Julia Roberts performed in Notting Hill,” she informed her co-star Hugh Grant, who famously starred within the hit movie..
Nevertheless, Nicole claimed she “wasn’t well-known sufficient” (or, she reckons, “proficient sufficient”) to land the gig.
In the identical interview, Nicole admitted to Hugh that Notting Hill wasn’t the one time she had hoped to share the display screen with him, solely to finish up being handed over.
“There was one thing the place I believe I actually needed a job… perhaps I used to be gonna do a small function in Love Really at one level,” she recalled.
When Hugh expressed his shock she clarified: “It was not a giant function.”
Funnily sufficient, Julia Roberts herself virtually handed on Notting Hill when it was first provided to her.
After studying the script, the Fairly Lady actor recalled to Vainness Honest that she informed her agent: “How boring. How tedious — what a silly factor for me to do.”
Finally, although, she mentioned: “F—, I’m going to do that film.”
In the meantime, in a 2024 British Vogue interview, Julia admitted to Notting Hill screenwriter Richard Curtis that taking part in Anna Scott was “one of many hardest issues I’ve ever needed to do.”
“I used to be so uncomfortable!” she added. “I imply, we’ve talked about this so many occasions, however I virtually didn’t take the half as a result of it simply appeared – oh, it simply appeared so awkward. I didn’t even know the best way to play that individual.” ”
Both approach, Hugh and Nicole have been fated to work collectively in The Undoing (which was nominated for 4 Golden Globes and two Emmys).
Nicole informed Hugh in their joint Marie Claire interview that she’d discovered working with him to be “simple”, as a result of “I such as you”.
“There was one thing very relaxed, clearly, as a result of I’m Australian and also you’re British, we’ve that… comparable, I don’t know, it’s only a sense of humour,” she claimed, celebrating their “good chemistry”.
