NICOLE KIDMAN: “Baz?”
BAZ LUHRMANN: “I love how your voice sounds on the phone …”
NK: “Oh, Bazzie?”
BL: “How are you, my darling love?! My most missed person on the planet?! And I don’t overstate that lightly!”
NK: “Oh, my beautiful Baz! I’m good actually, I’m hanging in there. I’m in Nashville right now.”
BL: “I fell in love with Nashville making Elvis.”
NK: “Did you?”
BL: “I was in Nashville a lot – we recorded all the gospel in all those old churches.”
NK: “I was at the dentist yesterday, who’s the same dentist that Dolly [Parton] uses! That’s how small-town Nashville is!” [Laughs.]
BL: “I love Nashville and I love her, too. I call her the Dolly Lama of LA, you know?”[Both laugh.]
NK: “How good does the film look, Baz? I sent you that email, going, ‘Oh my gosh, that trailer is like … I’m bowing down!’”
BL: “I’m just trying to not screw it up with the mix … you know how I can be a bit much sometimes?”
NK : [Laughs.]
BL: “So I’m trying to keep level!”
NK: “Yes! I remember this with Moulin Rouge!, where you’d go back and rework it and rework it. But you’re going to Cannes soon, right?”
BL: “Yes, and I’ve been talking to Austin, preparing him, because he’s never done a junket at Cannes. I told him: ‘You’ve got to be ready. I’ve opened it twice now and Nicole and I arrived with and Nicole’s the best in the worst situations. The night before I went to bed, the critic from said it was one of the best films he’s seen, and when I woke up, the other critic from said it was the worst film he’s ever seen. I was shaking, and you know, you have to face all the critics and the press.’ Then I told him that you just grabbed
