Portrait of a Lady

Starring
Nicole Kidman
John Malkovich
Viggo Mortensen

For her latest film, "Portrait of a Lady," Nicole
Kidman got into her 19th-century role as Isabel
Archer, literally. The svelte Australian
squeezed into corsets that reduced her waistline to 19
inches, and suffered the bruises and pains that
plagued laced-up women 100 years ago.
Kidman told The New York Times she might
have avoided the pain but chose not to.
"...it was a psychological thing, a thing
where I wanted to be restricted really,
really tight so that the more repressed I was,
the more I felt it. This was a woman in an
emotionally abusive relationship.
You have to go there.
You can't pretend."

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Nicole Kidman
John Malkovich
Viggo Mortensen
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Last updated: October 1, 2006

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