Los Angeles (AP) — With several films set to debut this year, including such disparate turns as a taxidermist villainess, mysterious amnesiac and an actress-turned-princess, Nicole Kidman will again become a familiar face in theaters. While maintaining a steady presence in Hollywood for more than two decades, the 46-year-old Academy Award winner has been focusing more in recent years on raising her two daughters with husband and country star Keith Urban — away from the spotlight in Nashville, Tenn. For her latest role in "The Railway Man," out April 11, the "Moulin Rouge" and "The Hours" star plays a supportive wife to World War II veteran Eric Lomax (Colin Firth). In the autobiographical adaptation, Patti and Eric Lomax confront his past as a prisoner of war in Thailand, where he worked on the "death railway," a 258-mile stretch of treacherous train track running into Burma. Upcoming this year, Kidman will also play a villainess in "Paddington,...
- 4/6/2014
- by Derrik J. Lang, AP
- Hitfix
Close to 2,600 people awarded The Railway Man with an extended standing ovation at the film.s Gala Premiere screening at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. When director Jonathan Teplitzky invited .the real. Patti Lomax on stage, who is portrayed in the film by Nicole Kidman, the ovation was triggered once more. This wholehearted response from the festival audience is the stuff of any filmmaker.s dreams, and for Teplitzky, it was an experience which he considered .once in a lifetime.. .You make films for audiences to respond to and hopefully engage with, to be moved by, to become involved with,. Teplitzky tells If. .When they palpably are, you feel like you.ve made a film that can reach an audience and the reasons that you set out to make the film are also resonating with 2,600 other people. It.s amazing.. The Railway Man tells the story of Eric Lomax,...
- 12/20/2013
- by Jessica Shields
- IF.com.au
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