Nicole Kidman argues with ‘Expats’ director, filming put on hold

[coulson]

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[bellwetherr]

yikes i wonder what happened

[genbu_no_miko24]

Huh I wonder what happened?

"Mongkok is a super, busy packed area of HK and it's super humid and hot rn"

If it due to covid issues....I could see that. Long shoots with heat and humidity can very much get to people if that is the case too.

"Kidman arrived in Hong Kong from Australia in the second week of August to commence filming of “Expats,” an Amazon TV series based on a novel by author Janice Y.K. Lee. She was exempted from the city’s stringent quarantine rules, stirring controversy about the purported “special treatment” the government had granted her.

Wang, who was not excused from quarantine, arrived in Hong Kong earlier this year."

Hmm if she was exempt (which I don't think she should've of) I'd probably be nervous too.

I've never heard of Nicole being disruptive on set so I'm curious to see what happened?

[myhipusername]

Yeah unless I’m missing something I’ve always thought she had a pretty decent reputation??

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah same. But scriptedending take below mentions that she really ask a lot of questions about her characters which could lead to creative conflicts.😬

I wonder if it was that?😬

[rhapsodeeinblue]

I remember when* Lulu had to do the 3 week hotel quarantine when she arrived (she posted pics daily on Instagram during it). The fact that Nicole didn't have to is bullshit tbh!

[scriptedending]

Damn, that can't be good.

I saw a Q&A with Karyn Kusama when Destroyer came out, and she was gushing over Nicole championing female directors, and talking about how committed she was to getting the character just right. But iirc, she also talked about how Nicole asked a lot of questions to try to understand the character/scene, and made a lot of strong choices about her character, so I could see grounds for potential conflict.

[unmellow_yellow]

Isn't Frank Oz a very openly misogynistic piece of shit? Him and Herbert Ross. Dickswabs who do films about women while openly loathing them, like Steel Magnolias. And James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, etc.), and like every male director actually...
Never mind, 99% of them are misogynistic assholes and/or rapists, thank you women celeb memoirs.

[angriest_girl]

No, it was based on the writer’s life.

[carolinga]

If she did leave HK, I'm interested to see the difference in response to Nicole vs the response to John Boyega.