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  • Nicole Kidman Loses Her Memory In ‘Before I Go To Sleep’ [Trailer]

    We’ve seen amnesia tackled in several movies including Memento, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and 50 First Dates. Now, we have another movie that focuses on the same premise.

    Nicole Kidman’s new movie Before I Go to Sleep, is based on a 2011 novel with the same title written by S.J. Watson. The novel became a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.

    In the movie, Kidman plays Christine Lucas, a woman suffering from anterograde amnesia. The trailer shows Kidman waking up with no recollection of anything. “My name is Christine Lucas and I have amnesia. Tonight as I sleep my mind will erase everything I know today. I’m scared,” Kidman says at the beginning of the trailer.

    In order to remember who she is, Lucas keeps a video diary. Her husband and a doctor have also been trying to help her remember what happened on the day of her accident.

    However, Lucas’ amnesia is not like other cases, as seen in the trailer. Lucas learns that there was an attempt to end her life, and that is the element that sets this movie apart from other movies with the same premise. There is a deeper story behind her amnesia and viewers will need to wait for the movie’s release to know the rest of the story.

    The movie also stars Colin Firth who plays Kidman’s husband and Mark Strong as the doctor trying to help her regain her memory. Other stars include Anne-Marie Duff and Dean-Charles Chapman.

    Actor Mark Strong comments on ‘Before I Go to Sleep”

    The movie was written and directed by Rowan Joffe. Joffe also served as the writer for other films including The American starring George Clooney and 28 Weeks Later starring Robert Carlyle and Rose Byrne.

    Before I Go to Sleep will be released in the U.S. on September 12 and in Australia on August 7.

    Trailer: ‘Before I Go To Sleep’, Starring Nicole Kidman

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  • Nicole Kidman Dishes on Life With Keith, Film Roles

    Nicole Kidman has been very busy this year with several films in the works, including The Railway Man, Paddington, Grace of Monaco and Before I Go to Sleep.

    In an interview with The Associated Press, Kidman opened up about her roles, life and what truly makes her happy.

    The Australian actress will share the screen with our favorite Mr. Darcy actor Colin Firth in three new films — The Railway Man, Paddington and Before I Go to Sleep. She joins the rest of the world in thinking the man is beyond yummy, but sees other qualities in the actor that she admires as well.

    “I just enjoy him. I really enjoy his brain and his talent, but he has a really great sense of humor. Me and millions of other women in the world go, “Wow! Colin Firth!” My mom adores him. My sister adores him. I’ve just got so many friends who go, “Oh my gosh. Colin Firth.” I now know him in a different way, but I have such respect for him as an actor,” said the 46-year-old actress.

    Kidman told AP playing Grace Kelly was “the chance of a lifetime to play her” and loves the film as a whole.

    “I really admire her, and I think she has such otherworldly qualities,” she said. “I think she has an aura about her. I don’t know if I’m able to capture that, but I was honored to have the chance to. We’ll see. It’s only a six-month period of her life that we depict. It’s a fairytale. It’s not a heavy drama. It’s got beautiful costumes. It’s sumptuous.”

    But what about Nicole’s life with husband Keith Urban? She had plenty to say about the love she has for her family.

    “We have a very simple life but an extraordinary creative life, if that makes sense. I’m lucky that I’ve got a partner that’s totally committed to making it work,” she said. “We have two little girls that we adore, and we’re very blessed, in the sense of having a family. We certainly talk about everything. We make the decisions together.

    “Happiness, that’s obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters. Then, I come back to just being mama.”

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  • Nicole Kidman Stars in ‘The Railway Man’ and More

    NIcole Kidman will soon become a mainstay on the big screen. Set to star in several films in the next several months, she will play a taxidermist villainess, an actress-turned princess, and a mysterious amnesiac–and that’s not all either. She plays the wife of World War II veteran Eric Lomax, who helps her husband confront his past as a prisoner of war in Thailand, where he worked on the “death railway,” a 258-mile stretch of treacherous train track running into Burma. That film is called The Railway Man and it hits theaters on April 11th.

    During a recent interview Kidman was asked how she learned to play the roles of real women–especially Patti Lomax, the wife of Eric Lomax.

    “Patti is different because she’s still alive and was able to give me information about herself. I didn’t meet her until I started filming. Everyone kept saying, “Do you want to meet her?” I was like, “No, I’d really like to be able to watch her in an interview.” Actually, the producer sat with her for hours — he’s a very good friend of hers — and taped her and sent me the tapes. I basically had access to her whole life, stories about her, her mannerisms and behavior, like I was a fly on the wall,” Kidman explained.

    Colin Firth plays Eric Lomax in the film, but that’s not the only upcoming movie he and Nicole Kidman star in together. They also costar in Before I Go to Sleep and Paddington. Nicole was asked what it is about the actor that prompts her to continue to work with him.

    “I just enjoy him,” she said. “I really enjoy his brain and his talent, but he has a really great sense of humor. Me and millions of other women in the world go, “Wow! Colin Firth!” My mom adores him. My sister adores him. I’ve just got so many friends who go, “Oh my gosh. Colin Firth.” I now know him in a different way, but I have such respect for him as an actor.”

    In addition to all the talk about her upcoming films, Nicole Kidman was also asked about her family life with husband Keith Urban, and how she balances being an actress, a wife and a mother.

    “Every time when we’re not working, we spend together,” she said. “That’s it. It’s that simple. We’re not off. We have a very simple life but an extraordinary creative life, if that makes sense. I’m lucky that I’ve got a partner that’s totally committed to making it work. We have two little girls that we adore, and we’re very blessed, in the sense of having a family. We certainly talk about everything. We make the decisions together.”

    They’ve definitely made some good ones. Keith Urban has his lucrative recording and performing career and is a judge on American Idol. Nicole Kidman is flying high with all these films–and more–debuting within the next year.

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