Movies have given Nicole Kidman all sorts of bad times – starring in Bewitched and The Stepford Wives didn't exactly help her career, plus if it wasn't for films Nicole Kidman wouldn't have met the tiny Scientologist – but they've never almost killed her.
But that's another bulletpoint that Nicole Kidman can scrub off her wishlist – yesterday, on the set of her new movie Invasion, Nicole Kidman's stunt car blazed off course and ploughed into a metal post at around 50mph, causing Nicole Kidman and the other passengers such serious injuries that a hospital took two hours to decide that she was OK. On the plus side, Nicole Kidman is thinking about submitting footage of her crash to the TV show On-Set Zombie Stunt Cars Do The Most Potentially Fatal Things, and she stands to win £100 if the clip is shown. We've got that clip, too, but you'll have to keep reading for that.
Sometimes we think fate conspires against Nicole Kidman. Although she may be the highest-paid actress in Hollywood and she got married to a cowboy with the world's sparkliest teeth, glossiest hair and angriest fans, something has always eluded Nicole Kidman. Maybe Nicole Kidman wants a baby, maybe Nicole Kidman wants a husband that doesn't drink so much he has to run away to rehab every five minutes or maybe Nicole Kidman just wants a stunt car on the set of a lame-looking horror movie to veer wildly out of control and smash her straight into a metal pole at about 50mph.
If it was the last one that Nicole Kidman was after, then she sure is the luckiest girl in all the world. Yesterday on the set of Invasion, her remake of a remake of a remake zombie horror film, that's exactly what happened, as E! Online reports:
Kidman, along with seven other crew members, was involved in an on-set car accident early Thursday morning when a stunt went awry, according to both the Los Angeles police and fire departments… The studio said that the accident took place when the driver of a rig towing Kidman's car crashed while negotiating a turn. Using a rig is standard operating procedure for cinematic driving scenes. Paramedics arrived at the production's location around 12:25 a.m. and remained for 30 minutes before leaving, without transporting anyone to a hospital. Kidman was subsequently taken to the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by a private vehicle and was released about two hours later.
Nicole Kidman's car crash has understandably got the movie studio worried. Not because human error may have permanently injured or killed international superstar Nicole Kidman, but because blurred, out-of-focus footage of a truck accidentally towing a car into a lamppost at a moderate speed is easily the single most interesting thing that will happen to the entire production of a film most people have already seen three times anyway.
Hey, you want to see the Nicole Kidman Invasion car crash, don't you? OK then, here you go…
And now you don't have to go and see Invasion when it comes out in the summer. Just send the money you would have spent on a cinema ticket this way please.
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Fleazy says
That’s exciting – easily the best badly-filmed confusing half-crash these eyes have ever seen. An Oscar for Invasion!
Dr Phil says
She’ll be fine. Trust me, I’m a doctor.
Zippy says
Any plonker who thinks they were going 50mph must be a complete zombie themselves. They were doing 20mph at most before the tail started to slide and then by the time they hit the pole and slowed considerably. Trust me, I’ve crashed spectacularly at 60mph and the damage was significantly worse.
MFIC says
who cares
Snoozy says
That was about as exciting as watching paint dry.
Ecocat says
In 1968 I was 19 years old and had just returned home from the war. I remember being chased by a beaurtiful woman named Nicole in a parking lot. She was driving a 1968 Mustang and was very mad at me (I dont remember why). I do remember the car sliding around in the lot and hitting the curb. Both Nicole and I survived as well as several interested onlookers. I dont remember ever running into NIcole again. Somehow I find the memory of that experience far more interesting than watching this.
expert says
I suspect that some of those seven that were hanging on the rig and car got seriously injured. At least one was having trouble staying on even prior to the turn. Who cares about the overpaid star–the one that her flunkies had to protect against photographers with a flimsy sheet— what about the workers who go without any recognition?
Goose says
I love that all the coverage is concerned about Kidman, the actress safety buckled inside the steel roll cage, and not the six or seven stuntmen who were hanging by their knuckles onto the top of the vehicle and were thrown to the pavement on impact.