Below are a couple of quotes relating to Nicole, from recent interviews with Aaron Eckhart and Miles Teller:

Q&A: Lost in superstars’ glare, Aaron Eckhart happily excels

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Q: When you’re acting with someone, do you ever think, “Man, they’re great in this scene.”?

A: Yeah, absolutely. In “Rabbit Hole,” there were plenty of times where I was acting with Nicole and admiring her at the same time, her choices, the adjustments she made between takes.

Q: Both your performances are very natural.

A: Those are the greatest moments, when you know you’re not an actor anymore. That’s what I live for. I want to work with actors that don’t know they’re going to yell, “Action” or “Cut.” I would much prefer to live the part than act the part.

- azcentral.com

For Miles Teller, a role that was almost too real

But that vulnerability helped Teller get the part: During his audition, he blushed. Kidman, who produced the film and ultimately made the decision to cast Teller, thought his red cheeks signaled a lack of pretense.

“Nicole said she voted for him because that was just so real,” said John Cameron Mitchell, the film’s director. “The accident he had experienced just gave him this incredible emotional weight.”

- latimes.com

There’s also an interesting interview with Sandra Oh at FilmSchoolRejects.com, although there’s no real mention of Nicole.

Nicole has received another award nomination for her role in Rabbit Hole, this time from the Online Film Critics Society. Congratulations Nicole!

Best Lead Actress
Annette Bening – “The Kids Are All Right”
Kim Hye-ja – “Mother”
Nicole Kidman – “Rabbit Hole,”
Jennifer Lawrence – “Winter’s Bone”
Natalie Portman – “Black Swan”

This is the only nomination for Rabbit Hole from the OFCS. The winners are announced on January 3rd. View their official site here.

John Cameron Mitchell focuses on Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart

John Cameron Mitchell had never spoken to Nicole Kidman before he agreed to direct “Rabbit Hole,” the first movie from her Blossom Films shingle, in which she cast herself as a grieving mom coping with the loss of her 4-year-old son in an auto accident.

The closest he had come to meeting the actress was being in the same room with her at a Golden Globes ceremony. “It was like high school,” he recalled. “There were cheerleaders and there were jocks, and I was hanging out in the smoking area with David Lynch and Steve Buscemi.”

Then “Rabbit Hole” came his way. Mitchell wasn’t looking to direct just any film. “I’m good at saying no because I have cheap rent,” said the New Yorker, known for a long acting career and for directing “Shortbus” and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

But his agent had a “special feeling” about the ‘Rabbit Hole’ script, adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his own play. After he read it, Mitchell met with Kidman and told her he felt linked to the project because as a teenager he lost a younger brother to illness. “I felt I needed to do a little healing through this story.”

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As previously reported, Nicole was scheduled to appear on Regis & Kelly on December 24th. However, it turned out to be a repeat of last years appearance, when Nicole was on to promote Nine. Disappointing, as I was looking forward to another new interview! Maybe they’ll have her on again properly in the new year.

- Thanks to my friend Brianne for letting me know about this.

- You can also view the Rabbit Hole UK Facebook page here.

Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman has scored positive reviews, and a Golden Globe nomination, for her role as a mother dealing with the death of her child in the independent film “Rabbit Hole.”

The film was released last week in major U.S. theaters and expands around the country starting on Christmas day.

“Rabbit Hole” is based on the Pulitzer prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Kidman stars alongside Aaron Eckhart as grieving couple Becca and Howie. Kidman also produced the film, marking it the inaugural project from her company, Blossom Films.

Kidman, who lives in Nashville with her country star husband Keith Urban and their daughter Sunday Rose, spoke Reuters about the film, her family and being a mother.

Q: How did you come across the play?

A: “I read the review of ‘Rabbit Hole’ in the New York Times. Living in Nashville, I get the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. That’s my contact with the city because that’s where I used to live and I’m a theater buff. When I read the review, I thought, ‘Gosh, that sounds like rich material.’”

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Everyone experiences loss and grief but few films show it in such a naked and matter-of-fact manner as does Rabbit Hole. The Aussie actress Nicole Kidman was so passionate about David Lindsay-Abaire’s original Pulitzer Prize-winning play that she signed on as one of its producers as well as its star in order to see to that his script would get made into this film.

For such a glamorous Oscar winning actress, making this John Cameron Mitchell-directed film offered her an incredible chance to see this award-worthy examination of loss and recovery come to fruition. With a cast that included Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Wiest, this unvarnished and austere movie tells the story of a couple suffering through the process of coping with and living past the accident death of their child.

During a recent press conference and afterwards, the 43-year-old lithe redhead answered questions about what it took to get this film made and play such an emotionally-wrenching part.

Q: This film is about understanding the process of coping with grief. What did you learn about that process in making this film — did you draw from experiences in your life to connect to the characters?

NK: It’s something that I’ve always wanted to explore. I’ve explored it in other films in different ways. I explored it in a film called Birth which was in a very different way. So I feel like it is territory that I would even explore again because it’s so much a part of our journey, what we love, what we lose, and the fear of that.

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I’d like to wish all of our wonderful visitors, and of course Nicole herself and her loved ones, a very Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a great holiday, filled with yummy food, presents, and most importantly of all, Christmas joy!

A new UK poster for Rabbit Hole has been released! Rabbit Hole will be released in UK cinemas on February 4th 2011.

Fourteen-month-old Alyssa Miller had a special visitor when Hollywood star Nicole Kidman dropped in to spread some Christmas cheer among seriously ill and injured children and their families at Sydney Children’s Hospital this week. Kidman has been an ambassador for the hospital for more than 10 years.

- illawarramercury.com.au

(More photos and coverage from the Sydney Children’s Hospital visit can be found here).