Film not anti-Catholic: Kidman
Nicole Kidman has been forced to deny her latest film is anti-church and reaffirm her own faith as a religious controversy threatens to brew in the United States.
Kidman stars in the fantasy film The Golden Compass, an adaptation of a book that has been labelled ‘anti-Catholic’ in the US.
The film also stars Daniel Craig and recent Bond-girl Eva Green.
”I wouldn’t be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic,” Kidman told Entertainment Weekly magazine.
”I was raised Catholic, the Catholic Church is part of my essence.”
The film’s screenplay is based on Philip Pullman’s book Northern Lights, which has reportedly gained attention in the US for its perceived anti-Catholic rhetoric.
Kidman, who is currently midway through production of the Baz Luhrmann period epic Australia, told the US magazine that the screenplay had been altered.
”It has been watered down a little,” she said.
The film is the first part of a trilogy and is slated for release overseas in early December.
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