Nicole Kidman

...to be associated with Baumbach and company. It was January 2006 when, after heeding producer Scott Rudin's advice to read the Margot screenplay, Kidman met with Baumbach in a New York cafe. She had just seen "The Squid and the Whale" a...

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...Juliette Binoche. For her role in Margot At The Wedding, an off-color domestic dramedy directed by Noah Baumbach (The Squid And The Whale), Cross shares screen-time with Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black. Not too shabby for...

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...sort of picked the two of them for their similarities rather than their differences." Baumbach came to appreciate the symbiosis between Leigh and Kidman. "Jennifer and Nicole are similar in that they intuit things," he said. "From take to...

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HOLLYWOOD - Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh moved in together during filming for new movie Margot at the Wedding, because they wanted to perfect their roles as a dysfunctional family. The three...

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...life. Nicole Kidman plays the emotionally brittle Margot, who brings her son, Claude (Zane Pais), to attend the wedding of her estranged sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to ne'er-do-well artist Malcolm (Jack Black). The visit...

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...both extraordinarily talented. It was like being invited to the cool party." Baumbach admitted that he was a surprised how quickly Kidman accepted his invite. "It was so strangely easy that I am even still not sure how it happened,"...

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...family. At its center are two sisters, Margot (Nicole Kidman) and Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), reunited at the family home - a rambling, disorganized place that hints at old money - on an unnamed East Coast island. Pauline is...

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...rest of her existence. In "Margot," the anticipated follow-up to writer-director Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale," Kidman plays an inept and emotionally abusive mother to a son on the verge of adolescence. In reality, she balked at...

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...lives"). The Darjeeling Limited Also getting mixed notices from scribes is Anderson buddy Noah Baumbach's latest, Margot at the Wedding, starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jack Black. Margot tells the story of a pair of...

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