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Why is she considered box office poison?


I don't understand why she is labeled "box office poison" yet you don't hear people say the same thing about Julia Roberts when she has around the same amount of flops.

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As far as I can tell she hasn't had hit in at least 10 years (Aquaman doesn't count).

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I've never heard anyone say she is "box office poison". As far as I can see, most directors are glad to get her in their films.

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NOBODY says that. Does the term “agent provocateur” mean anything to you?

It’s a classy term for “fucking troll.”

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She is jist cringe. Theres something odd about her. She has never been attractive to me.

Just ugh.

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In the late 80's/early 90's before cosmetic surgery she was quite beautiful.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=nicole+kidman+dead+calm&form=AWIR&first=1

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to some, i am sure that's true.

she has always come off odd to me. i liked her in dead calm before i knew who she was, then from days of thunder forward she is just ugh.

imho

but hey, i don't expect a single person to agree with me. lol

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that's OK. Winola Rydr doesn't do it for me.

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Her acting skills are top-notch. But her better days are probably behind her. Can't stay on top forever...


That being said, I've never heard anyone call her BOP? But you can't ignore that her films haven't made a ton of money over the last 10 years or so.

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Imo all she ever had was totally due to her ties to tom cruise

Also i think she could have been far far better had she never got with tom at all.

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Ooooh, that's a little bit of a low-blow to Kidman.

Obviously, it probably helped her career to some degree to be in movies with Cruise but she is a better actor than Cruise is. So, who knows what her career might have been like without him but I don't think this casts any shadows over her talent.

I think the movie that really got her career going was Dead Calm and Cruise wasn't in it. Although, the film wasn't like great or anything, she was the standout in it.


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