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Nicole Kidman Grace Kelly Look: Convincing?

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Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly? Hey, if Michelle Williams can play Marilyn Monroe, Scarlett Johansson can play Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel can play Vera Miles, Cate Blanchett can play Katharine Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio can play both J. Edgar Hoover and Howard Hughes, and Anthony Hopkins can play Richard Nixon, Alfred Hitchcock, and Odin, then Nicole Kidman can definitely play Grace Kelly. In the above photo (via Just Jared), you get a “first look” at Kidman, currently on U.S. screens in Lee DanielsThe Paperboy, on the Menton, France, set of Grace of Monaco. In the film, to come out some time in 2014, the Academy Award winner Kidman (for The Hours) plays the 1950s Hollywood star and Academy Award winner (for The Country Girl) who became princess of Monaco.

Directed by Olivier Dahan – whose La Vie en Rose earned Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf (!) a Best Actress Academy Award – Grace of Monaco revolves around an early 1960s dispute over tax laws between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III (and his princess) and France’s Charles de Gaulle. The screenplay is by Arash Amel, whose previous screenwriting credit as per the IMDb is the minor action thriller The Expatriate.

Grace of Monaco cast

In addition to Nicole Kidman, Grace of Monaco features Tim Roth as Prince Rainier III, Milo Ventimiglia as Grace Kelly’s press agent Rupert Allan (who also worked for the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood), and Parker Posey as Kelly’s lady-in-waiting and supposedly ruthless social climber Madge Tivey-Faucon.

Also: Paz Vega as Maria Callas, Geraldine Somerville as Princess Antoinette, Robert Lindsay as Aristotle Onassis, Frank Langella as prince Rainier’s chaplain and alleged Kelly-Rainer matchmaker Father Francis Tucker, and Anthony Hopkins’ competitor Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Alfred Hitchcock.

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Bill B. -

She is talented, but she is miscast here. The role should have gone to Charlize Theron.

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Liz -

I don’t see a resemblance to Grace Kelly . . . at all

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Delina -

She does not look like Grace, is too old and botoxed for the part, and that shows. It is not working. Older types better for her.

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Delina -

She does nt look like Grace Kelly , not at all, and is too old for the part, and that shows,also is full of Botox, every thing is not working, She will be better playing an older type.

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