Nicole Kidman says Jodie Foster replaced her on a major film when she was ‘having a breakdown’
nypost.comNicole Kidman is grateful to Jodie Foster for replacing her in 2002’s “Panic Room” when she was “having a breakdown.” “There’s this misconception that somehow female actresses are at each other, or they don’t like each other or whatever,” Foster, 61, told The Hollywood Reporter during a roundtable discussion with Kidman, Naomi Watts, Brie Larson, Jennifer Aniston, Anna Sawai and Sofía Vergara. “Like, Nicole, I took over a movie that you had to leave.”Kidman responded: “Yes!
And thank you. I was in a really bad way. I was like, ‘I’m having a breakdown.’ And Jodie took over, thank the Lord.” The 2002 thriller followed Foster and a young Kristen Stewart, who played her daughter, as they are forced to hide inside the panic room of their New York apartment when intruders break in.
Kidman had started filming the movie but bowed out after she sustained a serious knee injury from 2001’s “Moulin Rouge” musical, according to Entertainment Weekly.
She didn’t elaborate in the Hollywood Reporter interview on the reason she felt she was having a “breakdown,” but it was around the same time her marriage to first husband Tom Cruise ended in 2001 after 11 years.
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