It said that after she filmed this she was in bed for 2 weeks becasue of emotional stress. I've never seen this movie, but was there a reason for her to have been in that condition after?
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Or we have some shepard's pie peppered with actual shepard on top.
it was due to the outrageously complex role she had. She was in it, almost every minute. She suffered emotionally being victimized by her evil husband who only married her for the money. She got so deep into the role, that it left her devastated. Isabel ARcher's baby also died, which left her even more depressed. The role was one of Nic's best. it was a dream role, and Jane Campion made portrait of a aldy a very melacholic tale.
Osmond steps on her dress, she falls. She knows that her cousin is dying. She knows she's been foolish to marry that man and have been led by her duplicitous friend madame Serena Merle. She inherited a great deal of money, but it didn't bring her happiness, but frustration. YOu can see that in the movie.
Nicole loved playing Isable, but it was a lot of work. She was tired, she was sad, depressed. she even hit her head against the wall out of frustration. She cried a lot in this movie too
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It was definitely the most complexe and heartwrenching role she has ever portrayed.I could feel Isabelle's pain.Quite scarry.
Brilliant acting but unfortunately,extremely underrated performance.
it was due to the outrageously complex role she had. She was in it, almost every minute. She suffered emotionally being victimized by her evil husband who only married her for the money. She got so deep into the role, that it left her devastated. Isabel ARcher's baby also died, which left her even more depressed. The role was one of Nic's best. it was a dream role, and Jane Campion made portrait of a aldy a very melacholic tale.In addition to this, the womens costumes were physically uncomfortable and terribly constricting. Kidman's waist is TINY in the scene where she goes to a museum with Hershey...in addition to her already slender build, this is due to an extremely tight corset. Personally, I think it would be close to agony wearing that getup 8 hours (or more) a day, while filming.
The R2 DVD has a very revealing 'making of' extra, in which most of the footage of Kidman is of her crying or worrying over her performance. It's hard to tell how much of this is due to staying in character, but the rest of the documentary suggests that it was either a difficult production or unusually candid access of it had been granted.
shareIf memory serves me correctly, John Malkovich was also very nasty to her, things were very tense on set and Nicole didn’t believe she could deliver the goods. She was probably crying throughout the film.
Hell I got emotionally exhausted after watching the behind the scenes featurette!
"You were supposed to love me, werent you?", Nicole Kidman-Stoker 2013
I watched the special features option on the dvd and it was an hour long feature with Jane Campion going over most of the film. . . including directing Nicole who was in tears most of the time even while Campion was talking with her trying to sooth her. I can imagine it was a very trying experience for a young Nicole Kidman.
shareYes - I just saw that extra - it was very very interesting. The actors were SO candid - all of them - Hershey about getting the attention of the director when she wasn't the lead in the movie, Richard E. Grant talking about the difficulty of going to sell himself to get parts, Kidman and Malkovich talking about the emotional demands of these characters.
It made me like Hershey and Grant and Kidman enormously - in this extra, you can really see Kidman living this part at the time - and greatly suffering - sobbing, painful.