Australia was an epic fail.  As if you needed further encouragement to wait for it to come out on Netflix, even Nicole Kidman thought it was a bad movie.  Yeah, she squirmed through watching this thing.  In a radio interview she admitted that sitting in a theater, and watching her performance in Australia, made her flee the country.

She said she was so nervous about her performance that she fled Australia as soon as the premiere was over with her husband and their five-month-old daughter Sunday Rose.

“We ran because I didn’t want to read anything. I didn’t want to know.”

I hate to break this to Nic, but there are scathing critics in every country.

“People are going to see Nicole playing it and think it’s all right. It bastardizes our culture. I will guarantee she has no more children. It is not meant to be played by women as it will make them barren.”

Award-winning actor, screenwriter and Aboriginal language teacher Richard Green, to the Sydney Morning Herald, regarding Nicole Kidman playing a didgeridoo while promoting her latest movie on a German television show. Among Aboriginal Australians, there is a strong taboo against women playing the instrument.

Give the lady a break! She was married to Tom Cruise for years. At this point, she’s just happy to put her mouth on any cylindrical object that doesn’t close its eyes and call her Frank.

Nicole Kidman’s acting talent knows no bounds.  She won an Academy Award for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours.  She was virtually unrecognizable in that movie.  Now she’s filming The Danish Girl where she plays the first post-op transsexual.  This chick is always choosing projects that really challenge and stretch her abilities.  Here is Nicole in her newest role portraying a car seat.  She’s amazing; she can play anything.

We all know that Australia isn’t going to be winning all (or any!) of the Oscars they’d hoped for, so Nicole Kidman decided instead to dress up like a ridiculous gold statue at the Australia premiere in Madrid.

This look could have worked, I think, if she’d paired it with simple black shoes and maybe a different necklace, but it’s kind of blinding and silly the way it is.

At the Australia premiere in NYC.

Homegirl’s shit is seriously froze over.

Which is ironic, because she looks like hell.

“The baby comes wherever I go, and I just like looking at her, watching her breathe. I stand over her crib and watch her breathe. It’s pathetic. My mum says I’m over-bonded. I don’t care. I’m just very bonded right now … I don’t want my baby photographed. I just couldn’t have her exposed. She’s my baby girl, and I’m very protective, and I’m still hormonal. I keep her close. I just wanted to be in the bubble of Keith, Sunday, Bella and Connor and me. That was the bubble for the first month … She’s just barely rolling over, smiling and giggling. She looks just like her daddy. She’s got my skin, unfortunately. I wanted her to have dark skin. She’s so pale, and she has to wear zinc cream and hats. Poor Sunday. There’s no frolicking on the beach.”

Nicole Kidman discusses her four-month-old baby, Sunday Rose, in an interview with USA Today.

Is anyone else a little shocked that she even remembers that she has two other kids?

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences really appreciates girl on girl action and any gender bending roles.  Charlize Theron in Monster, Nicole Kidman in The Hours, Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry. 

So even though the film is only in pre-production, I call Oscar nominations for Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman who are starring in the independent movie The Danish Girl.  The film, based on a true story, tells the tale of two married artists and how the husband changes after posing as a female model for portraits.  Kidman gets to play the guy who, in time, became the first post-op transsexual.  Will you watch?  It sounds like a fascinating story.