"There is freedom when you don't have a lot of money riding on a film. You really get to play," Nicole Kidman said about working on "indie" pic, "Margot at the Wedding" at Thursday's Gotham screening at The Tribeca Grand Hotel. Hosted by The Cinema Society, screening drew pic's writer-director Noah Baumbach, his wife and film's thesp Jennifer Jason Leigh as well as guests Lauren Bacall, Nora Ephron and Adrian Grenier.
Kidman added that it was Baumbach that helped her decide to do the smaller pic. "I had seen 'The Squid and the Whale' and I thought Noah was such a great writer. I just think Noah and Jennifer are really cool and both extraordinarily talented. It was like being invited to the cool party."
Baumbach admitted that he was a surprised how quickly Kidman accepted his invite. "It was so strangely easy that I am even still not sure how it happened," Baumbach said. "I had coffee with her. I gave her the script and she called me the next day and said I would like to do the movie. Can you do it in my schedule? So, we basically went into pre-production that afternoon." (A. Morfoot)
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