Nicole Kidman said she 'really wanted' the part in a 1999 film that became a classic of its genre.
The “Big Little Lies” star, however, wasn’t exactly starving for roles at the time. She had appeared in “Practical Magic” and “Eyes Wide Shut” in the late ’90s, and major projects such as “Moulin Rouge” and “The Others” were on the horizon. She also had already won a Golden Globe for playing a small-town TV reporter in the 1995 film “To Die For.”
As for Roberts, portraying the world’s biggest movie star, Anna Scott, in “Notting Hill” who falls for Grant’s bookshop owner would become one of the most beloved performances of her career.” for the part. “Whenever you’re asked about casting your film ... there’s always a fiction that whomever you cast was always your first choice, but I have to say that Julia Roberts was the one and only person we thought of for the part of Anna,” he said. “I remember saying to , ‘Let’s offer it to Julia.’ And Roger said, ‘We’ll never get her.’ So when Julia’s agent said it was the best romantic comedy she had ever read, I thought that was a good sign.
In the Marie Claire conversation with Grant, Kidman also revealed that she auditioned for another one of his classic films. “I think there was something where I think I really wanted a role ... maybe I was gonna do a small role in ‘Love, Actually’ at one point.”starring in “Wonder Woman” as Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons and mother of Princess Diana, due to scheduling conflicts with “Big Little Lies.”
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