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Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruise's Daughter Posts Rare Selfie
The undoing of a viral meme.
Nicole Kidman broke her soundlessness connected the iconic 2001 photograph of her agelong thought to person been taken close aft she finalized her divorcement from Tom Cruise. And she is sharing the information astir its origins.
The photo—in which the Big Little Lies histrion appears relieved arsenic she stretched retired her arms and looks towards the prima with her eyes closed—is often shared connected societal media aft idiosyncratic makes it done a pugnacious situation. In fact, Jenna Dewan recently posted the image aft finalizing her ain divorcement from Channing Tatum aft six years of negotiations.
When asked if the representation was really snapped close aft signing her divorcement papers, though, Nicole laughed and said, "that's not true."
"That was not me; that was from a film," the 57-year-old told British GQ successful an interrogation published Nov. 18 without naming the movie it's from, "that wasn’t existent life. I cognize that image!"
Of course, Nicole is nary alien to getting the meme treatment. So, she further provided discourse for a antithetic meme: her awkward clapping from the 2017 Oscars.
"I’ve besides seen the 1 wherever I’m clapping similar that," the Oscar victor said, mimicking herself clapping without her fingers touching. "'Cause I had a monolithic dense borrowed ringing connected and it was truly painful, and I was frightened of wrecking the jewelry. Ha!"
She added, "There’s ever thing down the existent images that spell retired there, right?"
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But up determination astatine the pantheon of Nicole’s memes is her fan-favorite AMC ad. And the Babygirl star has insisted that she's chill with them becoming memes due to the fact that she believed successful ads' ngo of getting radical backmost to movie theaters aft the pandemic.
"‘Heartbreak feels bully successful a spot similar this,'" she quoted herself. "But I’ll bash thing for cinema, truthful you tin meme maine arsenic overmuch arsenic you want."
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It's a sentiment that she's antecedently expressed pursuing the viral clip's success.
"I’m truthful gladsome that they bash [love them],” she told E! News successful April, "because it means that they spell to the theater."
In fact, Nicole believes successful the ads truthful overmuch that she agreed to movie a follow-up.
"Maybe, yes," she divulged E! News past period erstwhile asked if the rumors of a sequel advertisement were true. "Yes, you request to speech to Adam [Aron, CEO of AMC Theaters]. We're successful the making. I'm utilizing a Practical Magic term: There's things brewing."
Keep speechmaking for much of Nicole's champion roles from implicit the years.
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Dead Calm
Nicole Kidman made her onscreen debut successful 1983, but it was her breakout relation alongside Sam Neill and Billy Zane successful the 1989 thriller Dead Calm that truly enactment her connected the map.
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Days of Thunder
In 1990, Kidman starred arsenic Tom Cruise's emotion involvement successful this high-octane drama, and the brace joined aboriginal that year.
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Far and Away
The powerfulness mates teamed up again for manager Ron Howard's epic romance, playing Irish immigrants hoping to assertion onshore successful 1890s America.
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To Die For
The Aussie histrion earned her archetypal Golden Globe for this critically-acclaimed satirical drama astir an ambitious TV reporter.
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Batman Forever
In 1995, she starred successful her archetypal superhero movie, playing Dr. Chase Meridian other Val Kilmer's Batman.
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Practical Magic
In this beloved 1998 comedy, Kidman joined forces with Sandra Bullock to play witchy sisters Sally and Gilly Owens.
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Eyes Wide Shut
Before their divorcement successful 2001, Kidman and Cruise appeared onscreen unneurotic 1 past clip successful Stanley Kubrick's erotic drama.
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Moulin Rouge!
In 2001, she picked up her archetypal Oscar information for her relation arsenic Satine successful the dazzling deed musical.
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The Others
Switching gears erstwhile again, Kidman delivered a spooky crook and a twist ending successful this supernatural horror.
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The Hours
Kidman scored her archetypal Oscar triumph successful 2002, playing the writer Virginia Woolf.
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Bewitched
While Bewitched didn't formed a spell astatine the 2005 container office, Kidman was wide praised for her comedic crook a other Will Ferrell.
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The Golden Compass
In 2007, she stole the amusement arsenic the wicked Mrs. Coulter successful this phantasy escapade movie based connected the books by Philip Pullman.
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Rabbit Hole
The histrion earned her 3rd Oscar information for this 2010 drama, starring alongside Aaron Eckhart arsenic a mates dealing with the aftermath of their child’s death.
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Paddington
It was backmost to villain mode successful 2014, playing an evil taxidermist who was trying to worldly mediocre Paddington and show him successful the Natural History Museum.
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Lion
Kidman starred arsenic adoptive parent Sue Brierley successful this heartwarming existent communicative that earned her an Academy Award information for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
In 2017, she joined Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan successful this critically-acclaimed and precise creepy intelligence thriller by manager Yorgos Lanthimos.
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Aquaman
She dove backmost into the superhero realm successful 2018 by playing Atlanna, the parent to Jason Momoa's Aquaman.
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Big Little Lies
Kidman joined the all-star formed of Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, and Laura Dern successful HBO's hugely fashionable constricted series, earning herself an Emmy and a Golden Globe on the way.
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Bombshell
She portrayed Gretchen Carlson successful this 2019 play astir the downfall of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.
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The Undoing
She teamed up with Hugh Grant to prima successful this intelligence drama, which ended up being HBO's most-watched amusement of 2020.
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She created 1 of the popular civilization moments of 2021 by declaring, "heartbreak feels bully successful a spot likе this" for AMC.
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Nine Perfect Strangers
Kidman's hotstreak connected TV continued into 2021 with her relation arsenic the mysterious big of a wellness edifice successful this Hulu play series.
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Being the Ricardos
In 2022, the histrion racked up her 5th Oscar information playing Lucille Ball other Javier Bardem's Desi Arnaz.
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Expats
And successful 2024, she joined the ensemble formed of Amazon Prime's caller series, astir the lives of expatriates surviving successful Hong Kong.
