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Cold Mountain, the critically acclaimed romance set during the American Civil War is out to buy on DVD from 5th July. Here Nicole Kidman talks about her experiences shooting the film
What was it like working on the movie in Romania?
The thing that was amazing about shooting there was that it was so different, even in terms of taking a walk. The first morning I was there I got up at 6am and decided to take a walk to help me get over my jet lag. I went into the forest, and said I didn't need anyone with me, I'd be fine. But there was a huge pack of wild dogs there, and I came running back. There's a lot of wild animals around. We proceeded to see bears - Saturday nights would be our weekly bear-spotting time. We'd all have dinner together in the guest house, and then we'd all go out together; you'd drive to work and there'd be sheep around. It was a remote mountain town.
Could you live in the time in which Cold Mountain is set?
You conjure up those images because you're playing the character. I remember we were sitting out on the porch of the big house that we were in. There was something that we were shooting in that Dante had built, and there was something so simple about it that you could see the way people existed then. It was incredibly satiating. The way Ada learns to take care of herself, of course I could eventually learn to do that. That, to me, is one of the most powerful parts of the film.
What did you think of the romance at the heart of Cold Mountain?
It was really this triangle in terms of Anthony, Jude and I, when we embarked on this together. It was a very strange coming together during our rehearsal period. We all took it on, Jude and I both wondered how to make it that believable that these people share, at most, a kiss and a few glances and the occasional touch of a hand. How do we make it believable that would stay present in somebody's head and actually be their light for such a long period of time and draw them back. I would constantly be asking Anthony if he had enough, because it was more up to him to know what he'd captured because we were so existing within it that we really were in the hands of the director, and we hoped that people will buy into it. Jude and I were basically passing each other because he would be carrying one part of the film and I would be going back to America and then I would come back and he would go back to London. So we were crossing in the night a lot, but we were constantly trying to remind each other of each other in the scenes; keeping in each other's presence because we were both very much aware of trying to feed that into each scene to the point where you feel snow and you remember Inman. Everything somehow has a presence of the person, that you're still seeing the world through their eyes, which I think is when you are existing with the thought of somebody, you view the world with them even if they're not there.
Would you like to return to the stage?
I would love to do something [on the stage] again. I've talked to different people but I haven't been offered anything recently. I was going to do the stuff with Sam Mendes at The Donmar but I ended up doing Cold Mountain instead. I'm going to do a recording of Ann Carson, the Canadian poet who Anthony introduced me to. We're going to do a recording of 'The Glass Essay', which is one of her poems and is beautiful. I would love to come back and do something on stage, though.
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Created: 01/06/2004 Updated: 03/09/2004
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