"Kidman: No baddie does it better" trumpets the Daily Telegraph's headline today prefacing a particularly bland interview with Nicole herself about her role as the evil Mrs Coulter in The Golden Cmopass. And indeed, no one does. But then, she has had a lot of practice seeing as the point where Nicole ends and the evil Mrs Coulter begins is not entirely clear. Read on. You know you want to.
So anyway, as you all surely know, Kidman plays Coulter - no, not Ann (although she does look, like Craig David, born to do it) but Mrs, the evil dominating she devil coined by Philip Pullman whose attitude to the maternal role is on a par with Dona Lohan's - use 'em then lose 'em.
And goodness, doesn't Kidman embrace the role? How does she immerse herself so thoroughly?
Well, a clue emerged from her recent interview on GMTV, increasingly the Panorama of the 21rst century. When asked about her children, Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12, Kidman sharply barked, ""They don't call me Mommy ... sometimes they call me Nicole." The chill just took you, didn't it? And just like Lyra in the Pullman series, the Cruise juniors do seem to have a relatively softer paternal figure in their lives - well, Tom Cruise let's them call him dad, at least. Connor, Isabella - keep those daemons close.
