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STARBUZZ: Kidman no legend: Bacall
Lauren Bacall, the veteran film star famous for her smouldering eyes and sexy voice, launched an attack on the way a TV journalist described Nicole Kidman, who co-stars in her latest film.
Bacall took offence at the Venice film festival when Kidman was described by an interviewer as a screen legend. The two actors were at a press conference to promote their controversial new film Birth, by the British director Jonathan Glazer.
As question after question was directed at Kidman, the tension was palpable as she pleaded: “Please ask somebody else.” She was keen to play down her status as one of the world’s most famous actors, insisting: “I certainly don’t feel like a big star in Hollywood.”
Then British TV journalist Jenni Falconer asked Bacall a seemingly innocuous question. “And now you’ve worked alongside another screen legend, Nicole Kidman ... “ she began. Interrupting her in mid-sentence, Bacall snapped: “She’s not a legend. She’s a beginner. What is this ‘legend?’ She can’t be a legend at whatever age she is. She can’t be a legend — you have to be older.”
In the controversial film in which they co-star, Kidman plays Anna, a wealthy New Yorker, whose husband dies while jogging in Central Park. A decade on, she is poised to marry again. Bacall plays her imperious mother.—Dawn/The Guardian News Service
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