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SYDNEY : Australia’s acclaimed film director Baz Luhrmann and Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman may never team up again following the completion of the epic outback movie "Australia".
“We both said we can’t make another movie together because there are only so many life-transforming events we can go through,” Luhrmann told Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The pair first collaborated on 2001’s "Moulin Rouge" as Kidman’s marriage to Tom Cruise was coming to an end. Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001, just three months before the movie’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Luhrmann’s father also passed away during the production.
This time around during their second project together on the new movie "Australia", Kidman found out she was pregnant with daughter Sunday Rose by husband Keith Urban after previously fearing she was unable to conceive.
Lurhmann admits their time together is so emotional, they have agreed not to put themselves through the stress again.
"Then six weeks before we finished filming ‘Australia’ we were doing a scene where her character has to say she can't have children and she goes, 'Bazzy, Bazzy, I've got to see you,' and we sit down under a tree and she tells me she's pregnant and she burst into tears and I did, too, because I knew that was what she wanted more than anything else," Luhrmann told the newspaper.
Recently, Kidman drew flak for playing the didgeridoo while promoting her new film on a popular German television chat show.
According to Aboriginal culture, it is taboo for women to play the didgeridoo and doing so could make them infertile.
"People are going to see Nicole playing it and think it's all right. But it will mean she has no more children. It is not meant to be played by women as it will make them barren," Aboriginal language teacher Richard Green told local media.
- CNA/jk
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