NICOLE KIDMAN feared she’d made a huge mistake when she arrived in Spain to shoot creepy film THE OTHERS after realising the script she’d read had been overhauled. The Australian actress admits she fought with director ALEJANDRO AMENABAR for two weeks in an effort to persuade him to rethink his script changes, which turned her character into a child-beating mother. As part of a recent roundtable discussion chaired by trade paper The Hollywood Reporter and featuring EDWARD NORTON, FOREST WHITAKER and BEN AFFLECK, the actress revealed, “I read the script and thought, ‘Great.’ Then I went and did MOULIN ROUGE. “I went back and read the script, and there had been a rewrite on it, and I thought, ‘This isn’t the film I wanted to make.’ “I arrived in Spain and in this script, I am hitting a child – and I saw this film as being about a mother’s love for her children, not her desire to kill the children. “There was conflict for about two weeks between us (Kidman and Amenabar), and we ended up with a great experience together. (Later) he said, ‘I am so glad you fought for that.’” Kidman admits her ex-husband TOM CRUISE helped her through the experience: “He’d be like, ‘Nic, go in and voice your concerns. Trust me, it will be appreciated.’”

Baz Luhrmann’s ambitious “Australia” project once had Russell Crowe attached, but has now replaced with lead Hugh Jackman, is now proving a local boon for the actors.

In a past Sunday Herald Sun interview, Hugh Jackman was asked about the impact his taking the role over from his friend Russell Crowe had on their relationship. “I talked to Russell and we’re fine. I don’t really know the details, if I did know the details I wouldn’t tell you, but if it was ever a situation that was awkward I would definitely talk to him. For me no job is worth losing a friendship over. Whatever happened was solely out of my world but when that didn’t work out and I was offered the role I took it with glee; it’s the role of a lifetime. Things happen.”

Luhrmann has allegedly added local Aussie actors Barry Otto and “Star Wars” & “Kinky Boots” star Joel Edgerton for supporting roles according to The Sun Herald.

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Robbie Williams has told old pal Nicole Kidman to stick by her man Keith Urban, who`s in rehab with drink and drug issues.

Rob, who`s stayed friends with Nicole since they made Somethin` Stupid together, emailed the Oscar winner urging her to be a `rock` to her country crooner hubby.

Robbie told Nicole, “Please stick by Keith. He needs you now more than ever.”

The singer, who`s conquered his own drug demons, went on, “If he needs anyone to speak to about what he`s going through, I`m here. I know what it`s like.”

Former crack addict Keith – who checked into rehab in the US shortly after he got married – flew to Australia to be with his wife just days ago.

But he`ll be back in the States completing his treatment in the New Year. He`s also had stints in The Priory and Clouds in Wiltshire, reports the Mirror.

NICOLE Kidman and husband Keith Urban gazed lovingly at each other on a fairground ride just days after he left rehab.

The couple, both 39, looked like teenage sweethearts as they rekindled their romance in Sydney on New Year’s Eve.

Friends feared their six-month marriage was on the rocks after country singer Keith checked into a Betty Ford clinic in California for drink and drug addiction.

But the pair appeared to be having a great time after he flew 8,000 miles to be reunited with the Australian-born Hollywood star during a break in his treatment.

One onlooker said: “They looked like they were having the time of their lives.”

ACTRESS Nicole Kidman called police and said her holiday on the south coast of NSW was ruined after media followed her.

Kidman and her husband Keith Urban were angered by celebrity photographer Jamie Fawcett after he photographed them during a holiday at Rosedale near Bateman’s Bay, reported The Daily Telegraph.

Fawcett’s lawyers are due to appear at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on January 11 over allegations he was linked to bugging Kidman’s home.

An AVO obtained by police on behalf of Kidman against Fawcett over stalking claims was revoked in February 2005 after the case was dismissed.

Fawcett told the Telegraph Kidman rolled down her car window on Sunday and angrily said “f–k off Jamie”.

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It seems that Hollywood actresses even get star struck. It seems that Nicole Kidman came over all funny over Daniel Craig when she starred opposite him in the upcoming THE INVASION. According to the Daily Express, she immediately asked the James Bond star for his autograph.

“At first, it seemed like she was just teasing him.” A source said at the newspaper.

“Then she explained she really did want it because her son Connor is a massive Bond fan.

“I think it was probably the first autograph he ever signed as 007.”

Kidman also stas opposite craig in the movie adaptation of THE GOLDEN COMPASS, due in cinemas later this year.

NEW James Bond actor Daniel Craig has admitted being left shaken and stirred by Oscar winner Nicole Kidman.

He admitted the Australian beauty “turns me on” during an interview in US magazine W.

The actors co-star in new films The Invasion and The Golden Compass, the first screen adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s best-selling The Dark Prophecies.

And they smouldered together as they posed for this shoot for the front cover of W.

In the interview, Craig admitted there was a bubbling chemistry between them.

He said: “She turns me on. Not in a sordid, horrible way … well, come to think of it …”

Kidman, a little more tactfully, praised Craig as being “an actor’s actor”.

NICOLE Kidman dropped a bundle of cash at a swanky baby boutique in Melrose Ave last week – suggesting she is either stocking up for pregnant sister Antonia or preparing for her own delivery from the stork.

Proving the wives of Tom Cruise like the same stores, she chose the exclusive Petit Tresor as her retail therapy destination – the same trendy baby boutique previously hit up by Katie Holmes.

Along with a mobile, baby slippers and a green velour frog coat, Kidman picked up a $540 leather Mia Bossi diaper bag.

Too busy supporting hubby Keith Urban, Kidman had an assistant place the order, which was then trucked to her LA compound.

NICOLE Kidman will be at the side of her troubled husband Keith Urban when he launches a spectacular comeback tour in Australia this year.

Grammy winner Urban, 39, is planning a return to the spotlight and will start a world tour in April or May.

The country music star is being treated for alcoholism.

Industry sources say Kidman, acknowledged as a rock of support during Urban’s battle, will accompany her husband on his tour.

They say Urban used a recent holiday in Sydney to firm up the concert tour details, which will be locked in in the next few weeks.

Urban reckons the stage is the perfect place from which to answer the sensationalist frenzy that follows him.

“That is the biggest punch I can throw, the only way I can fight because I want to be there,” Urban said. “To get up there and do the best I can.”

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