Her first post-wedding film was 1991’s Billy Bathgate, a prestige project that let her work with Dustin Hoffman (“Like every acting lesson you’ve ever had rolled into one,” she describes the experience) but bombed at the box office.
C, Kidman’s career has taken on a much higher profile - but it’s still been something of a mixed bag. “Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman phoned up the Mulholland Drive Cafe the other night and ordered four chicken potpies to be delivered to their hotel room,'” she reads aloud. She picks an item out of the pile more or less at random. “This is bulls-!” The 28-year-old actress is poised on a lawn chair near the park’s Round Pond, tearing through a bundle of gossip clippings - lurid little snippets about her marriage, her sex life, her husband’s sex life- that a visiting journalist was thoughtful enough to bring along. But a tempest is brewing in a corner of this British Isles idyll - a tempest with bright red hair and sky blue eyes. The scene is so serenly civilized, so veddy English, you half expect Mary Poppins to come floating down from the chim-chim-in-eys. In the distance, a red double-decker bus putters past Queen’s Gate.
An old woman feeds bread crumbs to a flock of overly friendly pigeons. Schoolboys in blue blazers and rep ties stroll the fiercely manicured lawns. A spectacularly sunny day in London’s Hyde Park.
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