Happy New Year, Nicole . Purpose?
"For the new year? Worry less. Not only for the new year for the rest of my life. "
There is succeeding?
"Let's say that goes a bit 'better. Are one of those people who wake up to the thoughts at 3 am and compile a mental list of phone calls to make. I worry for my children, my mother, my father. When you get to a certain age, that becomes a big thought: the hope that they are healthy and well that if the Cavino "
She has worked with directors more powerful and legendary?
"complicated"
Each of them, I am sure, would have rushed to make Rabbit Hole (the new film Kidman ndb). Yet he chose John Cameron Mitchell, a director very independent, almost underground. What turned Hedweig and Shortbus. Very little Hollywood. Why lui?
“Anche se mi hanno fatto spesso nuotare nell’acquario dei pesci grossi di Hollywood , le mie radici sono molto più vicine al modo di lavorare di uno come Mitchell. E poi, ho spesso lavorato con registi che stavano cambiando genere. Quando mi ha diretto in The Hours , Stephen Daldry aveva appena girato Billy Elliot , e veniva dal teatro. Lo stesso con Sam Mendes : quando ho fatto con lui ha teatro The Blue Room , era un regista giovane e d’avanguardia. LO stesso con Lars von Trier. Mi sento a mio agio nelle mani di artisti di questo tipo , è quello che mi attrae, quello che conosco, quello che mi appartiene. MI sento più fuor d’acqua in un progetto più lineare , più commerciale. Ormai I understand that when I do the best to conform "
In every interview she talked about the importance for an artist to have courage, be ready to leave the comfortable situation. With Kubrick, in Eye Wide Shut, has gone in the darkest for a couple. With Baz Luhrmann for Moulin Rouge, has even broken ribs. By Stephen Daldry in "The Hours, came in suicidal thoughts of Virginia Woolf. But for the part of Becca, the mother of Rabbit Hole, had to live with the unthinkable, losing a child. And he said that for her mother - three times - was a particularly painful. That happened to wake up panicking or crying. There was a more difficult than others?
"get inside it was not difficult at all. The emotions were too many from which to draw. I knew how to interpret catches, his stoicism, his desire to live again, his attempt to live. The hard part was not the enormity of the pain, the crushing weight that could not fly like an albatross. The hard part was to be back Nicole, do not loose inside Becca. The hard part was coming home, and as if nothing had happened, sat down to dinner with my husband and our daughter Sunday. But it is something that happens to other actors, not only to them. A writer is absorbed by his characters, and then how do you return to your life? This is the location of each artist, if an artist is sincere and authentic. That's why sometimes it scares me at the prospect of a job. When we are in, then, is beautiful. But I know what does "
One of Hollywood taboo: death. Sure, there were plays and shows such as Angels in America, and books like the one where Joan Didion describes her husband's death ..
"The Year of Magical Thinking. I read to prepare your Rabbit Hole. I hit a lot "
The strength of this book lies in the attempt to understand the illness and death. Like when the protagonist, in order to succeed, you buy a hospital nurse's uniform. Here, in Rabbit Hole, I sensed the same effort. With Aaron Eckhart you dive in the location - the therapy for the surviving family, the mother who dresses to return to the place where he worked before starting a family - there is an attempt to understand this difficult
"It is an attempt to understand , is the attempt to live after taking something that has brought your life energy. As in the character of Virginia Woolf: Why live? Life is a gift, but when that becomes no longer seems so cruel. E 'Becca who fights against this, as if to say "I'm trying to stay in this life, but do not really want. " I am deeply touched her asking "Why should I grow old, now that the best thing in my life I was away? Why should I get to 80 years? What is the point? ". I think it's an obstacle that we all human beings sooner or later encounter. Some of us are overwhelmed. Others learn to sail, to cross, and for that I find so beautiful in so far as Dianne (West, which is part of the mother of Becca, ndb) says that the pain never goes away, but somehow we learn to live with it. Is not life ever again what it was, but becomes something else "
I do not mean that you can understand something only if it is proven. But John Cameron Mitchell said to push this story was the trauma of his teenage brother who saw a dying 4-year
"It 's a man with a deep capacity for compassion. But also fun, and appear as two irreconcilable worlds, sense of humor is an important part of this film "
And Nicole Kidman, his life and his career. I remember when he came To Die and people said: I can not believe Nicole Kidman is hilarious
"I rarely an opportunity to prove it, because I always choose to dramatic roles. But when I have the opportunity, take it on the fly. For as much as I am concerned the big questions about the human condition, I also like me a good laugh. A little while ago I was checking out what's here tonight at the Comedy Club in Nashville, maybe we do a jump with Keith (her husband ndb) if there is a comic good ones "
Since you are married, you are not working were away from the spotlight and take the child with a life as normal as possible, in Nashville. How has this influenced your career?
'E' was Keith drove me to make these films, among many projects that I had been offered, and some were really good, but I said no because I did not want to stay away from home. Rabbit Hole also had my doubts, I said "I do not know if I should." He insisted, "You must do this, work is always a part of you." I was almost kicked out of the nest, and look to me like a nest. Can I stay here quite well to read, write, take care of Sunday, fiddle a bit 'and fill the days until one year has passed and I have not even noticed. But Keith knows what my artistic career: I was a child that is my desire to tell stories. Can I deviate, but the truth is that I want grow old doing this work "
stay away for a while 'helped her understand how important her job for her?
"Sure, I pause and then the feed. I read, I discover important things about me, about what matters to me. Because I finally much time to think. I used to work all the time, now most of the year up with my family. Sunday go to school for 4.5 hours, so I can also cook, read and write in your journal. I dedicate myself to things that are good "
Life in the Nineties already dreaming
said," You know I've just planted a beautiful orchard? Was a long time since I wanted to do. Fish, of course, because we are in the South and then pears, plums. We had to put a fence, if not eating all the deer "
About cultivate: I know from experience the importance it gives to detail to build his characters. Tell me about the details of this film: the perfect home by the American suburb, the elegant furniture, clothes
Becca "I worked again with Ann Roth: When I have a part like this, I always try her"
In Romania on the set of Cold Mountain, she was the costume designer. To put it into the character of the protagonist walking shivering and hungry in the snow alta , le diede un pezzo di pancetta da tenere in tasca
“Ecco, Ann è proprio questo: mi offre il personaggio nei modi più impensabili. Mi passa una vecchia maglietta e all’improvviso mi accorgo che “ce l’ho” , che “la sento”. Per Rabbit Hole , ha voluto che i miei abiti fossero privi di colore. E poi con Aaron abbiamo passato parecchi tempo nella casa. Senza provare: quello che ci serviva era costruire il contorno della storia, trovare un’intesa. A un giornalista , di recente, ho detto che è importante anche scegliere l’odore che avrai nel film. Ogni personaggio ha un suo odore. Se non colori ogni sua minima sfaccettatura , non sembrerà reale. Devo poter feel every emotion, and I hear it, if necessary, 15-20 times in a row, because the scenes are repeated. Do I have to have those buttons that allow me to recreate each time, the character "
including its music, pictures
" Sure. In every character I have my own soundtrack. And now, living with a musician, I have access than before to much more music, more references to many, many more inspirations
And I imagine that this is all the more important when the budget is not stratospheric. How much it cost to turn Rabbit Hole?
"Three and a half million dollars. Very little. It means that there is a camper with the dressing room. You are in a house, and shares a room with others. We help you by interns, from guys who want to learn the trade "
you shot digitally?
"Exactly. At first I did not want to know "We can not use the film?". "We have no money," they said. Jane Campion and Stanley Kubrick have taught me that every obstacle can be turned into a strength. And finally, in these, the digital camera has helped us to find the movies and the rawness of her emotions. Why do not you have to cut and start over, you can keep it on and repeat the scene with no sense Stop. I learned a lot about this set. It was not easy, and that is why I liked it. Work since I was 14, it was time to put my experience to prove myself with something like "
From the perspective of intellectual Rabbit Hole - taken from the opera theater which won the Pulitzer for David Lindsay-Abaire - has all the credentials. But in the entertainment world, where everything has a label, this is not an entertaining film, because it addresses issues on which the cinema usually stay away. Some would call it a little shopping. What bothers her?
"The commercial aspect has always interested me recently. Of course, I want the donors to review their money, because as a producer that is my responsibility. I think there is an audience, he demonstrated the resounding success that this story got to the theater. And I know that the money to reach this audience by promoting, it takes. So I'm happy that, thanks to the support of critics at the Toronto Film Festival we were able to sell the film to distributors. But I think that stories of this kind should be made with reasonable budget, and I just know that Rabbit Hole has already paid back what it cost "
will be proud of the excellent reviews cha received
"Here in Nashville, an arthouse cinema, we will make a projection with the debate. Tickets are sold out online in a minute, so I called to have them, I had to explain that I do not have tickets. But, as I waited my children leaving kindergarten, a woman approached, she hugged me and said "Thank you. Thank you for making this film. I lost a son. " His only son. I held her and cried, "See?" Keith told me "why do these films." And he's right. As long as I live I will strive to tell stories like this "
His interpretation was nominated for an award from the Screen Actors Guild
"What makes me happy, because that is a nomination given by the actors. Be nominated by colleagues is the best for me "
He also had a Golden Globe nomination, his eighth, with three victories. He took home an Oscar for The Hours. She has starred in films in which he believed they did fiasco. He knew the ultimate success. In short, has seen it all. How does the psychological effect today, the external recognition, or lack thereof?
"To date, the awards for Rabbit Hole are probably the most welcome. I even said to Keith, and I depend dal fatto che li condivido con lui. A che cosa servono i premi se non li puoi condividere? E’ molto bello, ovviamente , anche perché non riesco neppure a ricordare l’ultima volta che mi hanno dato una nomination. La mia è stata una lunga carriera , e certe cose fanno sempre più piacere. Per me almeno , è così. Forse perché so che cosa significhi amare un film e vederlo scomparire perché non è stato notato o riconosciuto. Sono cose che fanno male , ma che non mi fanno arrendere. Era così già da bambina. Le avversità non mi hanno mai fermato”
Come dice la frase sulla locandina di Rabbit Hole “L’unica uscita è nel passarci attraverso”
"I am pleased that he mentioned. I love that phrase. Why is it true "