On the occasion of her receiving AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award, the actor goes deep on the filming of one of her pivotal and signature roles.
By now, the shot should be familiar: Nicole Kidman sitting in a theater, her face registering, among other things, hope and wonder. Except the masterful sequence I'm contemplating isn't the one from the ubiquitous AMC Theatres ad that has been worshiped and parodied the last three years, but in Jonathan Glazer's 2004 film 'Birth.' In addition to ecstasy, Kidman's expression also conveys shock and anguish and, finally, acceptance of the impossible. All in two minutes.
' That year, she also appeared in Lars von Trier's bruising, incendiary 'Dogville,' the sober Philip Roth adaptation 'The Human Stain' and the acclaimed Civil War epic 'Cold Mountain,' a hit nominated for seven Oscars. But even with all that, Glazer had been hesitant to cast her in 'Birth,' fearing her celebrity would overwhelm a delicate, peculiar character study. 'I was nervous to cast her,' Glazer admits. 'I needn’t have been.
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