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AUSTRALIANS ON FILM

BAZ LUHRMANN AND NICOLE KIDMAN

MOULIN ROUGE!, 2001

It’s the cinematic masterpiece that bagged Baz Luhrmann a best picture Golden Globe, and is considered one of the 100 best films of the past century. But production on wasn’t smooth sailing for Nicole Kidman. After she fell and injured her knee, Kidman, then 33, had to film close-up scenes in a wheelchair. Earlier, she broke a rib after being thrown and caught for a scene, then fractured it again due to her tight corset. “I’m doing things in a corset that no woman

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