Nicole Kidman Says She Would Have Kissed Batman for Free

When asked by L’Officiel wherefore she accepted the relation of Dr. Chase Meridian successful Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever, Nicole Kidman rather reasonably answered the occupation offered her a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to “kiss Batman.” In her ain words, “Everyone’s like, ’Why are you doing that?’ I’m like, ‘Because I get to buss Batman!’ The happening radical don’t recognize is, it’s not astir the check. A batch of the mainstream large blockbusters that I bash are hopefully different.”

Though the interviewer doesn’t property further with Kidman’s narration to the quality (missing an arsenic once-on-a-lifetime accidental to sermon the Oscar-winner’s favourite Batgirl oregon Scarecrow story, god!),  the histrion additionally revealed she agreed to look arsenic Queen Atlanna successful some Aquaman and its sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, solely due to the fact that she wanted to enactment alongside Saw manager James Wan. However, “I’d truly wanted to enactment with him successful horror,” she noted with disappointment.

Though Kidman’s isn’t traditionally regarded arsenic a “scream queen,” she does person acquisition successful the genre, having starred successful the supernatural play portion The Others, Park Chan-wook’s familial thriller Stoker, Stanley Kubrick’s occult Christmas nightmare Eyes Wide Shut, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Greek myth-meets-medical fearfulness movie, Killing of a Sacred Deer. She’s besides played a witch much than once, successful romanticist comedies Bewitched and Practical Magic—the second of which, a perennial Halloween favorite, is getting a sequel that’ll re-team her with Sandra Bullock soon.

Still, she adds further aspirations successful the genre, stating, “I’ve not done classical fearfulness yet. Hardcore horror. I’m putting it retired there, due to the fact that I ticker hardcore horror. I’m a instrumentality of Ti West!”

Kidman’s proposition she hasn’t done “hardcore” fearfulness successful the vein of Ti West’s recent X trilogy ignores 1 of her precise champion performances, though: 1989’s Dead Calm, which begins with a toddler being ejected done a car windshield and ends with Billy Zane’s caput lighting up similar a jack o’ lantern from a flare weapon changeable straight into his unfastened mouth. As the movie concerns a nautical serial slayer who had conscionable murdered the full unit of a low-budget pornographic film, I’d accidental it’s perfectly successful the aforesaid wheelhouse arsenic Pearl and MaXXXine—even if Kidman disagrees. That said, if Kidman is anxious for a relation successful the 11th Saw movie, I deliberation she’s the cleanable campaigner to trial Jigsaw’s gnarliest contraption yet.

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