Today's Blind Items
In honor of Australia Day, I thought I would make this blind item Australian. This actress is formerly A list, but now a good solid B. Back in the day when she got her role that made her internationally famous she got the role by sleeping with not just the casting director, but also this rounadabout Australian who was a friend of the director and was already bored with his wife. A further clue is this actress got naked in the movie for which she was cast.
Nicole Kidman dead calm theovie
ReplyDeleteIs the actor mel Gibson?
ReplyDeleteNicole kidman for Dead Calm (she also dated with Sam Neil)
ReplyDeleteNicole Kidman dead calm theovie
ReplyDeleteYep. Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm.
ReplyDeleteShe was so beautiful in that movie BTW.
Cate Blanchett... Elizabeth
ReplyDeleteThe actress, Nicole Kidman.
ReplyDeleteThe "roundabout," Paul Hogan ("Crocodile Dundee" - went on a "walkabout")
Movie, "Dead Calm"
Roundabout's wife, Linda What's Her Face from the "Dundee" movies
Mel isn't Australian. He's American. He moved to Austrailia when he was still young, but he's still an American and an American citizen.
ReplyDeleteNicole....you hussey, you!
ReplyDeleteThat is a great guess Jennifer H. - I'll go with it.
ReplyDeleteCrila, same with Nicole. She was born in Hawaii and lived there until she was school-age.
ReplyDeleteNicole, like Mel, was born in the US (Honolulu, specifically) but moved to Australia early. I think she has dual citizenship. I agree, this sounds like her.
ReplyDeleteNicole, for sure
ReplyDeleteI don't get the use of "roundabout." It makes absolutely no sense. Walkabout and roundabout (i.e. traffic circle) are not even remotely related.
Anyway, I'm going a different route.
Bryan Brown -- He had worked with Phillip Noyce, Dead Calm's director, in the past.
Rachel Ward -- She married Bryan Brown 5 or 6 years before Dead Calm was made.
Nicole does have dual citizenship. Her parents are both Australian citizens. Neither of Mel's parents were.
ReplyDelete"roundabout" just makes me think of the South Park episode skewing Russell Crowe - "Fightin' round the world" with his tugboat "Tugger". Ah that was some funny shit.
ReplyDeleteRoundabout can also mean 'in a roundabout way'... going at something indirectly. I don't get the use of that word in the blind, either.
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ReplyDeleteMy firs thought is Natalie Imbruglia, but that's probably wrong.
ReplyDeleteNaomi Watts?
Naomi Watt's international breakthrough was in Mulholland Drive. I don't associate David Lynch with well-known Australian actors.
ReplyDeleteNatalie Imbruglia first gained fame on TV (Neighbours) and then through her singing. I don't think she fits.
EmEyeKay, I was thinking the same thing about roundabout, but as you said, that didn't make sense either.
ReplyDeleteCould roundabout Australian mean New Zealander, as in around about that region. Lol I'm reaching I know but Sam Neill is a New Zealander I believe and and not Australian
ReplyDeleteAm I the only person who imagines that Nicole never has sex?
ReplyDeleteNicole K. you hussy
ReplyDeleteI don't remember Nicole being naked in Dead Calm. Really?
ReplyDeleteAnd I wouldn't doubt Paul Hogan because he left his long suffering "nobody" wife of a long time for that blond hussey from the movies. Serves that tramp right for stealing away someone's husband.
And who knew about Nicole? I have always thought she was stunningly gorgeous....and....actually...I think she still is!
Dead Calm was hardly an international hit. Also, the BI only specifies that the friend of the director is an Aussie, although I do think the BI strongly hints that the actress is an Aussie as well.
ReplyDeleteNaomie Watts rocketed to A-list with King Kong but she wasn't naked in that. Kidman's stripped for plenty of roles but in the part that made her A-list, Days of Thunder, she kept her kit on.
There just haven't been that many Aussie actresses who are/were A-list by Enty's standards.
"Roundabout Aussie" sounds like someone known for being Australian who was originally born in another country (e.g., Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman).
ReplyDeleteStretching the bounds of the clues, you can probably fit the BI to Kidman somehow. Billy Bathgate was the first role in which she was famous for her nude scenes, but by then she was famous enough not to need to screw her way into roles.
RQ - You took the words right out of my mouth!
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I read this I thought Nicole K in Dead Calm, The End. IMO
ReplyDeleteDead Calm was a big deal. It absolutely made Kidman famous, especially among the Hollywood power players. I have no idea if she was nude in that movie. I also think the "roundabout Australian" is Mel Gibson. He's not a true Australian in the sense that he wasn't born there, but everyone associates him with Australia.
ReplyDeleteNicole kidman and the roundabout guy is Rubert Murdock, the big news paper guy. He would have had influence helping her become famous internationally.
ReplyDeleteEither Enty or Lainey always comment on their relationship...
I thought of Nicole, and her cute ass in Dead Calm too. I remember seeing that with my gf at the time. She said " I am not a lesbian, but I could change for Nicole Kidman" after seeing that movie.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Nicole solid A-list, notB? This sounds more like the woman in Muriel's Wedding or something like that. Someone who was famous in the 90s or sometime in the past & now is a solid B
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to say that it is Toni Collette(?) just someone like that
ReplyDeleteB, you def have to imdb nicole kidman and take a look at the sht shows she's been making the last few years. def not A list.
ReplyDeleteI have no clue but the only A/B list Australians I can think of are Nicole K and Cate Blanchette. Not sure what CB is ranked by Enty standards.
ReplyDeleteJust to be different:
ReplyDeleteSharon Stone for Basic Instinct with Mel Gibson being the roundabout Aussie.
Enty doesn't specify whether or not the actress is Australian.
I don't recall Nicole being naked in Dead Calm but she sure had a different nose. It was cute and tip-tilted.
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of Paul Hogan's wife, she really jacked up her face:
http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=970803&showcomments=true
I just looked it up and yup yup yup there is indeeeeed-ee-doooo a nude scene starring ms. kidman in Dead Calm. Case closed I'd say.
ReplyDeleteYep, she gets naked when she has sex with Billy Zane to try to distract him so she can turn the boat around.
ReplyDeleteI think Naomi Watts for Mulholland Drive!
ReplyDeletePaula, I'm with you. Very famous in Hollywood and got Lynch Oscar attention.
ReplyDeleteKidman for sure. I always thought she slept her way into her career. I never thought she had any talent at all.I don't think there is a single feature on her face that she was born with.She's almost all plastic,silicone and Botox.The only thing she ever had going for her was the fact that she was eager to do nude scenes in any movie even if it had nothing to do with the plot
ReplyDeleteToni Collette in Muriel's Wedding?
ReplyDeleteShe was nominated for The Sixth Sense. Don't know if she was ever A, though.
A movie director I know hates Kidman and often tells stories of when he worked in Australia and she was sleeping around to get parts (which I've said on here before), so this story wouldn't surprise me as being her. Apparently she would give out BJ's to the crew... anyone.. just to get ahead (pun sort of intended).
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was going to say, b-- isn't she still A-list?
ReplyDeleteYep, what the.princess.leia said. It never says that the actress is Australian. Of course, Nicole has dual citizenship, so that could still fit. For some reason, though, I feel she's too obvious so she's not it.
ReplyDeleteI have no other guess, though. Huh.
At first I thought Toni Colette based on the letter downgrade(she did have a moment where she was getting lots of visibility after Muriel's Wedding) and was disappointed bc she is such a great actress, she shouldn't have to do this, she should just act)... and I would have definitely thought Nicole would be an A permanently btwn Oscar and high-profile relationships.... but I have to agree with the majority this sounds like Kidman and the roundabout Aussie is Mr. Murdoch.
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