Born to be wild

Nicole Kidman would like some excitement in her ho-hum life

Nicole Kidman has declared she wants to lead a more ‘wild and dangerous’ life. The Oscar-winning actress was in Rome for the launch of the inaugural Rome Film Festival where she said: “One of my dangerous movies will be showing.”The actress was referring to a film called Fur, a fictional story based on the life of the photographer Diane Arbus who went around New York photographing the dispossessed in down and out areas of the city. The film had to take a fictional look at Arbus’s life because her family refused to give their permission for the film to use real aspects of Arbus’s life. The photographer committed suicide in 1971. In the film Kidman is seen befriending a weird neighbour who is covered in hair. She begins photographing this strange man and has an affair with him. Later in the film, as a way of showing Arbus’s freedom, the actress disrobes and roams around a nudist colony naked. Kidman said that when the story and the role called for nudity she had no trouble doing it. “What’s the problem with taking your clothes off? I just don’t know what the big deal is. If it’s necessary for the film and the role then I take my clothes off. If for a moment I felt that it was being exploitative then I would never take them off.”However, Kidman admitted later that the director rang her morning, noon and night before filming started just