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Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the notorious Montmartre cabaret club, the .. Read more

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  Jones was up for Moulin Rouge role

  • 18 Mar 2011

  Quincy Jones' actress daughter Rashida Jones has revealed she was in the running to play the lead in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! - until Nicole Kidman expressed interest in the musical role. The TV star admits she auditioned for the role of Satine before producers decided to go for a bigger name. And she wowed movie executives with a routine she worked out with her super-producer dad. Jones tells Eonline.com, "You had to sing a song and I decided I wanted to sing and play a song. I wanted to... Read more

  

  Gyllenhaal and Ledger auditioned for Moulin Rouge!

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 03 May 2011

  Baz Luhrmann has opened up about his lengthy Moulin Rouge! casting search - the director auditioned Jake Gyllenhaal and late Australian actor Heath Ledger for the lead male role. The part of penniless poet Christian in the 2001 movie musical eventually went to Scottish actor Ewan McGregor but Luhrmann admits it took months of auditions to find the right man for the job. He tells MTV.com, "I saw everyone. I have audition material of people you wouldn't believe. I know who can really sing,... Read more

  

  Wilson credits Kidman with movie career

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 30 Jun 2011

  Actress Rebel Wilson is crediting Nicole Kidman with her successful movie career after the Hollywood star loaned her money to follow her acting dream. The funnywoman, who stars in hit comedy Bridesmaids, trained at the Australian Theatre For Young People in Sydney, where the Moulin Rouge! actress also cut her teeth. Kind-hearted Kidman, who later became a patron of the organisation, gave Wilson a loan to allow her to train wherever she wanted - and she ended up studying in New York, where her... Read more

  

  Gabor eyeing Kidman for biopic

  • 28 Feb 2011

  Ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is eyeing Nicole Kidman to portray her in a biopic, according to her husband Prince Frederic Von Anhalt. The 94 year old, who has been in and out of hospital in recent months, is keen to see the Aussie tackle her life story on the big screen after watching her turn in 2001 movie Moulin Rouge! - 49 years after she herself starred in a movie about the legendary Parisian haunt. Von Anhalt tells E! Online, "She wants me to talk to Nicole Kidman... because she wants her Read more

  

  Kidman regrets early morning dancing scene

  • 08 Nov 2010

  Nicole Kidman spent two years recovering from a knee injury after overdoing a dance scene in Moulin Rouge! The exhausted star tore cartilage during one early morning routine and had to limp through the rest of the movie and beyond. She tells The Hollywood Reporter, "It was that dancing mentality, where you keep dancing. It was, like, 3am, and I was thinking, 'I'm so tired and I probably shouldn't do another one (scene) in these heels, but yeah, OK, one more take, this will be it.' And I just... Read more

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