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Doing the rounds of publicity for your latest film can get tiring for celebrities. Most journalists who interview the stars during press junkets stick to the script – only asking questions about the film the stars are promoting. Bad things can happen when an interviewer gets personal.
That’s just what happened to the BBC’s Andrew Marr when he was interviewing Nicole Kidman about her film Nine. Marr says he wants to raise “one of the things you haven’t talked about before”. “There are many things I haven’t talked about,” says the Oscar-winner, sensing trouble.
“Here’s one,” persists Marr. “Scientology — a lot of people would say it is a bullying cult.” Kidman, who belonged to the sect while married to Tom Cruise, is temporarily lost for words.
“I just don’t . . . This is just so not . . .” After recovering her composure she asserts: “I’m here to publicize Nine. If I was here to do an exposé on myself then I’d be like, ‘Let’s go’, but I have no interest in discussing any of that.”
“You don’t want to talk about Scientology?”, presses the interviewer. “No, I’ll talk about Nine,” says Kidman firmly, after having earlier in the interview batted away Marr’s suggestion that filming Eyes Wide Shut with Stanley Kubrick might have placed her marriage to Cruise under stress.
I’m actually kind of surprised that Kidman didn’t actually walk out of the interview.
Gallery Info: Nicole Kidman, Marion Cottilard, Kate Hudson, Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench, Anna Wintour, Joel Grey, Rob Marshall, Harry Connick Jr, Larry King, Martha Stewart and Ron Howard at the Nine luncheon at Per Se
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