If Nicole Kidman is ever seeking to solid her personal biopic, she gained’t need to look far.
Reese Witherspoon delivered a spot-on impersonation of her shut buddy and Big Little Lies co-star on the current forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman, airing Monday on TNT.
“Most actors wait by a cellphone to be chosen by a director,” stated Witherspoon in her speech. “However as an actor, Nicole has at all times been proactive. Even in her earliest work, she picks her administrators.”
She then recounted a standard expertise of watching a overseas movie with Kidman, switching from her southern U.S. accent to a hilariously correct Australian impression.
“And he or she’s like, ‘However do you see that director?’” stated Witherspoon, incomes laughs from everybody, together with Kidman. “‘I imply, it’s unimaginable. Reese, we should get her. We should!’”
Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon attend the forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Nicole Kidman on April 27, 2024 on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. (Jon Kopaloff / Getty Photographs for AFI)
The AFI tribute was held on April 27 on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, honoring Kidman for her contribution to American tradition by movie and tv.
Beforehand postponed from 2023 amid the WGA strike, Kidman’s tribute marks the primary time an Australian actress has acquired the consideration and the third non-American actress honoree after Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Andrews.
First awarded in 1973, different previous AFI Life Achievement Award honorees embrace Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Alfred Hitchcock, Gene Kelly, Sidney Poitier, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington and extra.
Kidman and Witherspoon grew to become pals after first starring collectively in HBO’s sequence adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel Huge Little Lies in 2017, additionally serving as government producers.
Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley and Reese Witherspoon star in ‘Huge Little Lies’. (HBO)
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Final week, Kidman instructed Vanity Fair throughout a dialog with Witherspoon that they’re “shifting quick and livid” with a long-awaited season 3, as Moriarty is at present “delivering the e book.”
The pair additionally mentioned their ongoing friendship and dealing relationship. “Our paths constantly cross, and that’s one of many issues I really like about us,” stated Kidman.
“We began working collectively and we went, ‘Okay, from this level on, it’s a lifetime,’ she continued. “We’ll be taking part in bridge and I’ll be older than you, however we’ll be sitting there. I’ll be like, ‘Are you able to get me the quilt?’”
Witherspoon added that they “at all times joke that we’re going to be previous women on a porch singing” Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Goals’, regardless that they each admitted they “nonetheless don’t know all of the phrases.”
The forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman airs Monday, June 17 at 10pm ET/PT on TNT.
