If Nicole Kidman is ever seeking to solid her personal biopic, she received’t need to look far.
Reese Witherspoon delivered a spot-on impersonation of her shut buddy and Huge Little Lies co-star on the latest forty ninth AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman, airing Monday on TNT.
“Most actors wait by a telephone to be chosen by a director,” stated Witherspoon in her speech. “However as an actor, Nicole has all the time been proactive. Even in her earliest work, she picks her administrators.”
She then recounted a typical expertise of watching a overseas movie with Kidman, switching from her southern U.S. accent to a hilariously correct Australian impression.
“And she or he’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 Photos 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 via movie and tv.
Beforehand postponed from 2023 amid the WGA strike, Kidman’s tribute marks the primary time an Australian actress has acquired the honour 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 mates after first starring collectively in HBO’s collection adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel Huge Little Lies in 2017, additionally serving as govt producers.
Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley and Reese Witherspoon star in ‘Huge Little Lies’. (HBO)
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Final week, Kidman advised Vainness Truthful throughout a dialog with Witherspoon that they’re “shifting quick and livid” with a long-awaited season 3, as Moriarty is presently “delivering the e-book.”
The pair additionally mentioned their ongoing friendship and dealing relationship. “Our paths persistently cross, and that’s one of many issues I 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 enjoying 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 “all the time joke that we’re going to be previous women on a porch singing” Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Goals’, though 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.