I'm struggling to think of miscasting of such epic proportions. Kidman is completely unbelievable cast as Grace Kelly!
She looks, act, and speaks NOTHING like her.
There are hundreds of more suitable actresses out there for this role.
I agree. I think a lot of people expected that she was going to capture the essence of Grace Kelly like Michelle Williams in My week with Marilyn, but she didn't even seem to attempt that. A better actress would have at aimed to have nailed Kelly's distinctive accent. I think Nicole Kidman was a really bad choice. Too old and too plastic looking. What were they thinking?
Kidman does still look stunning though...I
Am looking fwd to seeing this as I like Kidman as an actress
I too think Kidman looks beautiful.
I don't have a problem with the botox.
But she looked nothing like Grace Kelly and that does take away from the movie.
I don't let anyone hot-comb out my HAIRitage!
And she's not the worst thing in the movie by far... That says a lot.
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Completely agree! I've only seen the trailer for this, but it so incensed me to see they cast Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly!
Grace Kelly was sexy & beautiful, with depth, charisma & a sort of tongue in cheek twinkle about her. Nicole Kidman is quite 2 dimensional, & much more a 'clothes horse' that postures, & always she is Nicole Kidman playing the character, where as in other actors you see the character & not the actor! I don't ever feel she loses herself inside any characters she plays.
I don't mean to sound harsh, & I don't have anything against Nicole Kidman (except I don't think she is a good actor!), but Grace Kelly was quite a captivating actor that really did draw your eye & imagination on screen, & this seems so misjudged!
I think Nicole thought 'if I put the wig on and wear the clothes, I'll be Grace' but I was astounded at how little effort she made to get into character.
It's also something to note that Grace Kelly was 26 at the time the film is set, whilst Nicole Kidman is 20+ years onto that.
She's shown she can act in certain roles, and completely screw up in others, but in this film it's all wrong.
And I agree, it does not seem like she researched the part at all.
Even now, she is trying to wash her hands of her performance, saying she did what the director told her to do.
There are times I can excuse an actor for a bad film and blame it on the director but in this case, the script was awful along with the direction and the performances atrocious, including Kidman.
And I dislike actors passing the buck and placing the blame elsewhere trying to absolve themselves like Kidman has. She read the script before accepting the part, she portrayed Kelly all wrong(unlike her screen persona, Kelly was a rather bohemian individual with warmth and a wicked sense of humor). She likely took the role because the director helped MC win her Oscar and Kidman thought this bio was a sure fire Oscar nomination.
Both extremely gorgeous.
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shareThere's a difference between being miscast and not giving a good performance, either from your own lack of effort or lousy material to work with. The latter is what happened here. Nicole was a satisfactory choice to play (an older) Grace Kelly, and I think her voice sounds enough like her, but the material is so trite that she has little choice but to play it like a soap opera.
Michelle Williams gave a very good PERFORMANCE in My Week with Marilyn, but it wasn't because she was so believable as Marilyn.
So it bothers me when people say so and so is well cast or miscast. I also supported Naomi Watts as Diana, even though there were even more blatant physical differences there. (At least they had similar faces.) Nicole wasn't miscast so much as the script and story just sucked, with Grace just a stereotypical victim.
Has this been said before- Gweneth Paltrow should have played her? She looks much more like her.
shareMichelle Williams was horrendous in "My Week with Marilyn"! Lindsay Lohen was a disgrace trying to channel Elizabeth Taylor. Naomi Watts, one of the few actresses of today I truly admire, should never have attempted to portray Princess Diana. And Nicole Kidman's impersonation of Grace Kelly is so atrocious that this $35,000,000 bomb is skipping U.S. theaters (as well as Video On Demand) altogether and is instead going to premiere as a Lifetime TV movie.
Please, someone put a stop to these godawful bio-movies. They always flop and desecrate the memories of the classic Hollywood beauties they so foolishly try to capture.
no way, the only miscast was the dork as the prince of monaco.
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Haven't seen this yet and not sure I want to. Nicole is certainly pretty enough and a competitive actress but I agree, a little too old. My biggest problem is with Tim Roth as the Prince. Not even a close resemblance so I'm already turned off to seeing Roth in this role. Wish this industry would just leave Marilyn and Grace alone.
shareKidman as Grace was reminded in this film that she had created herself. Only very naive people think that what actors seem to be are who they really are.
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