By Darrell J. Banks Copy Right 2005 All Rights Reserved
Perhaps it's prentious to presume one can write for an actress you have never spoken too. Pretentious to imagine and dream that you the writer can develop a screenplay for a box office smash. But that is the premise of this article. Unless one is married or divorced from an actress such as Sandra Oh, one needs a muse to create inspiration for an actress such as Nicole.
Having once seen Ms. Kidman live and in person, the shyness, the demur quality and yes the beauty is inspiration to type well. Yet, the roles she has selected over the past ten years are idiomatic. Nicole searches for a script with a remembrance of past characters.
Recently, I also saw a photograph of Nicole Kidman with Lauren Bacall. Back in the forties Lauren looked very much like the current Nicole. Then, Ms. Bacall played the smoky, vixen, good girl. Yet her characters were driven to the bad guy. Never to forget a sequel Hollywood grabbed Nicole Kidman from Australia to perfect the vixen role for the past ten years. Surprisingly, in a recent article Ms. Bacall, was quoted by the BBC that today's actors are " of minuscule talent." A slur perhaps. Yet, those who write for Nicole Kidman, would find this quote abhorrent.
Consistent with the intelligent sex symbol, Kidman's sex roles have expanded since " Batman Forever" where she played the infamously named Dr. Chase Meridian. The Bond girl name, the double entendre has three meanings. Rewind from 2005. Ms. Kidman has stretched her acting repertoire to include the abused sex symbol in "Dogville," the bad wife of "Eyes Wide Shut' and of course the seductress in "To Die For."Symbolic of Marilyn Monroe with a brain Kidman plays the prevailing dumb blonde to perfection in " The Stepford Wives." This role continues in the pending " Bewitched."
As a screenwriter, one rarely writes for the same actress over and over again. For, unlike the studio system of days gone by the writer sits on the sidelines as the studio revolving door of redheads, blondes, and brunettes twirl by. Inspired by the similar roles your dialog may ensnare the synapses of some busy actress. Hopefully its Ms. Kidman who remains busy with four films per year, while many other Oscar winners, the Roberts, Tomei's etc. select less work each year.
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