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UPI
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Noma Dumezweni: Timing for 'Murderbot' is 'absolutely perfect'
1 of 3 | Noma Dumezweni and Alexander Skarsgard star in "Murderbot," now streaming. Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. NEW YORK, July 12 (UPI) -- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Undoing actress Noma Dumezweni says the themes of hope, community and acceptance in her futuristic sci-fi series, Murderbot, are relatable and important in 2025. "I have the joy of playing Dr. Ida Mensah from the Preservation Alliance," Dumezweni, 55, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "You can be whatever you want. We don't align ourselves with the polities of the Corporation Rim, which are all different planets, owned by corporations, and the timing for the show is absolutely perfect. It feels like right now." The adaptation of Martha Wells' novella stars Alexander Skarsgard as the titular, partly organic, security unit cyborg, which finds a way to override its "obey" function and think for itself as it is assigned to guard a group of free-spirited scientists led by Mensah (Dumezweni) and Gurathin (David Dastmalchian). Dune and Dexter: Resurrection actor Dastmalchian, 49, described his character as an "augmented human." "Though he is a human, he has a portal so he can connect to data through computer systems both through bluetooth technology and through cables," Dastmalchian explained. "He is an analyzer, a data analytic specialist. He's able to process large streams of data and store data and run it through his computation, so he's on the lookout for any anomalies, always on the lookout for making sure everything stays straight in alignment," the actor added. "He's very, what we would call, 'Type A.'" And that occasionally puts him at odds with the hippie scientist community he finds himself a part of. "It's wild," Dastmalchian said. "I'm right in the middle of this free-loving, socialistic [group]. We've got throuples over here. Oh, my God!" Dumezweni called Gurathin a "wonderful bridge between Murderbot and the Preservation." "They know what that world is, but they understand what the possibility of this world is, so therefore Gurathin's cynicism towards Murderbot is called for, but, for Mensah, [she is like]: 'No, we're all good. Let's try and find out what else we have in common." "He has a healthy dose of skepticism," Dastmalchian chimed in. The actor said the scripts by Paul and Chris Weitz expertly blend entertaining storytelling with important social issues. "It's the gift of great writing and being around an ensemble of great artists," Dastmalchian said. "You play it straight. We're never looking for the laugh. You're never looking for the sci-fi moment, the drama moment. You're playing the intention of the characters, their relationships to one another in the given circumstances and all the amazing, extreme mise-en-scene that comes with building a world like this is just all the fun." Dumezweni also credited Wells with creating such a dynamic, colorful world in the first place. "These stories are so clearly what we are creating and what Paul and Chris have created for us to be part of and that's the joy," she said. "From the well of Wells!" Dastmalchian added. Jon Cho, Jack McBrayer, Clark Gregg, Sabrina Wu, DeWanda Wise, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones and Tamara Podemski co-star. Season 1 is now streaming on Apple TV+. The show has already been renewed for Season 2.
Scottish Sun
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Nepo baby lands same big money modeling job as her Hollywood star mom – but can you guess her famous parents?
It comes after the teen starred in a handful of movies double take Nepo baby lands same big money modeling job as her Hollywood star mom – but can you guess her famous parents? A HOLLYWOOD nepo-baby has bagged a big-money modeling job with the same brand her actress mom signed up with 20 years ago. The 17-year-old Nashville-born beauty, who has followed in her parent's screen-star footsteps, now features in a new promotion for Omega. 6 A Hollywood nepo baby has landed the same big money modelling job as her Hollywood star mum Credit: Instagram/Omega 6 Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, daughter of actress Nicole Kidman, is now part of the Omega brand Credit: Getty 6 Sunday Rose flashed a pout in the brand's new campaign Credit: Instagram/Omega Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban is one of six fresh faces in the commercial for the watch company's new Aqua Terra collection, which also features Ashley Graham and Ariana DeBose, to name a few. The daughter of Nicole Kidman, 58, and country musician Keith Urban, 57, can be seen showing off her natural brunette locks as she sits side profile, donning a chic leather jacket. Like a pro Sunday Rose, who is wearing minimal make-up to let her natural beauty shine though, glances over her shoulder to flash a pout. She can be seen pulling up the collar of her garment, with her Omega wristwatch clearly seen on her left wrist. In Omega's Instagram image caption, the caption read: "Six inspiring women share the little secrets of our new Aqua Terra 30 mm collection. "Join the inner circle with Ashley Graham, Danielle Marsh, Tems, Marisa Abela, Ariana DeBose, and Sunday Rose Kidman Urban." Her famous actress mum has been a brand ambassador for Omega since 2005. She previously opened up on the partnership and said: "In everything I've done with OMEGA, they have shown extraordinary integrity, and that's important in this day and age. "Their watches are the same, and I've learned so much about the technology and history. "They've adapted and evolved with the times." Nicole Kidman's daughter Sunday Rose, 16, stuns in first modeling campaign for Miu Miu after Paris Fashion Week debut MODEL DAUGHTER Sunday Rose is busy carving out a career in the modelling and film spheres. She previously walked in the Miu Miu Paris Fashion Week show in October 2024. The pretty teenager opened the showcase of the brand's Spring/Summer 2025 collection. Sunday Rose then became one of the new faces of Miu Miu's 2025 Duets campaign. In the new gig, she starred alongside the likes of actress Liu Haocun, singer Eliot Sumner and Netflix favourite Joey King. As well as her catwalk work, Sunday Rose has also starred in The Angry Birds Movie 2, The Undoing and Big Little Lies. FAMILY AFFAIR Nicole shares daughters Sunday Rose and 15-year-old Faith, with husband Keith. Faith and Sunday Rose aren't the Moulin Rouge star's only children, as she shares daughter Bella, 32, and son Connor, 30, with her ex Tom Cruise. Nicole previously spoke out about how she parents her children. "I won't let them be on Instagram," she said in 2020 during an appearance on UK chat show Loose Women. "I have a 12-year-old right now who is chomping at the bit and wants to get into all of that. "It's just that constant push, pull. I'd say a lot of parents would say the same thing. "I think it's keeping their confidence and their self-esteem intact." Yet five years on, Sunday has her own page on the social media site. 6 Nicole shares Sunday Rose with musician Keith Urban Credit: Getty 6 Sunday Rose has followed in Nicole's acting footsteps Credit: Getty
Tom's Guide
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
5 best shows with Nicole Kidman to stream right now
Nicole Kidman has been a silver screen icon for decades. Yet like many A-listers, fans sometimes overlook just how strong her small-screen game is. She may not rack up dozens of TV credits, but when she shows up, Kidman delivers. Whether she's unraveling secrets in glossy, prestige dramas or popping in for a scene-stealing cameo, Kidman proves that star power doesn't have to shrink just because the screen does. Fresh off the second season of "Nine Perfect Strangers," her TV track record keeps expanding in surprising, genre-bending ways. Whether you're rewatching or just catching up, these five Nicole Kidman shows are more than worth the stream. Everyone loves a good cult story — unless you're in one. In arguably one of Kidman's best TV roles, she headlines the show 'Nine Perfect Strangers' as a "guru" named Masha, who runs a wellness retreat. The only catch? The "wellness" is served with a heavy dose of psychedelics and manipulation. Based on Liane Moriarty's book by the same name, the 2021 show debuted as a miniseries. You know a streaming series is popular when it gets an unplanned second season. That's right: 'Nine Perfect Strangers' snagged a renewal and the season 2 finale recently aired. Watch on Hulu Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant were the iconic 2020 mashup we didn't know we needed. The intense psychological thriller miniseries 'The Undoing' features Kidman as a seemingly normal therapist whose life gets turned upside-down when she contends with the fact that her missing husband, Jonathan, is a prime suspect in a murder investigation. Awkward. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Equal parts mystery and thriller as the stakes build with each episode. There's an argument that the stars shine brighter than the relatively run-of-the-mill mystery, but the acting and stunning cinematography more than make up for it. As for Kidman? Her character's intense unraveling yet again proves her range. Watch on Max A lioness doesn't just guard her cubs; she gets intel, too. The term also refers to a former military program helmed by female soldiers. They were tasked with searching, befriending, and getting intel from women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this series created by Taylor Sheridan, Kidman plays CIA senior supervisor Kaitlyn Meade, who oversees the Lioness field team. No pressure! Kidman toggles between being a straight-laced, no-nonsense CIA supervisor with a stellar poker face and a sly lioness whose emotions and cunning personality occasionally slip out. The layered performance is fascinating to watch. The cast includes other heavy hitters like Zoe Saldoña (Joe), Morgan Freeman (Edwin Mullins) and Dave Annable (Neal). Watch on Paramount Plus A perfect couple's perfection is only perfect on the page. Say that three times fast. In this murder mystery, Nicole Kidman's Greer built her thriving writing career on her seemingly storybook marriage with Tag (Liev Schreiber), a scion of one of the richest families in Nantucket who is harboring more than a few secrets. Until one of those secrets ends up in a body bag. Of course, Greer is a suspect, along with her entire family. And despite writing about crime for a living, she doesn't particularly try to look innocent. Kidman's nuanced portrayal of the deeply flawed matriarch makes audiences love and hate her in the same moment. That's not exactly an easy line to straddle. As far as whodunnits go, the twists and turns in 'The Perfect Couple' hit as everyone looks shady as hell. Watch on Netflix Ah, yes — another show about a false idyll. As is par for the course, the wealthy moms in 'Big Little Lies' are living the high, suburban life in their beach town until a chalk outline ruins the vibes. Hell hath no fury like a soccer mom scorned. Kidman's portrayal of Celeste, a domestic abuse victim and mother, is both heartbreaking and brutal to watch. For anyone who might be triggered, this is depicted quite violently on-screen. Celeste is one of the more kindhearted moms in the bunch, providing a sharp contrast to the show's more stereotypical suburban Mean Girls. Kidman's raw performance makes it impossible not to root for Celeste as she navigates her trauma and illustrates the difficulty of leaving an abusive relationship. The 2017 show marked the first time Kidman worked with series creator David E. Kelley, leading to a longstanding professional relationship. 'Big Little Lies' boasts a dynamite cast that includes Reese Witherspoon (Madeline), Shailene Woodley (Jane), Zoë Kravitz (Bonnie) and Laura Dern (Renata). Though the first two seasons aired between 2017 and 2019, the original novel's writer, Liane Moriarty, has a sequel in the works. The upcoming book sparked an already-announced 2026 reboot based on the yet-to-be-released sequel. Now that's trust. Watch on HBO Max
Irish Independent
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Nine Perfect Strangers' season 2 review: Thinly-drawn clichés, supremely irritating characters – and Nicole Kidman's awful accent
Then there's the other one: the producer-star who continually churns out glossy, empty, increasingly samey streaming dramas about the suffering rich, such as The Undoing, Expats and, of course, Nine Perfect Strangers (Prime Video, Thursday, May 22), which is back for a second season, despite originally being billed as a miniseries (a sneaky practice that's become commonplace). If you thought the first one in 2021 was a load of old drivel, the second, which opens with a double bill and lacks the foundation of Liane Moriarty's source novel, is nine times worse. Frequently almost comedically bad, but without the saving grace of anything resembling humour, it's the answer to a question nobody asked. Once again, Kidman dons a platinum blonde wig and adopts an off-the-peg 'Russian' accent that even Meryl Streep, during her funny-voices-and-silly-hats phase, would have been ashamed of as weird wellness guru Masha Dmitrichenko, who's fluent in psychobabble bullsh*t. Last time, Masha offered personal transformation to nine troubled – and very well-off – people at her luxurious sanatorium Tranquillum House by spiking their smoothies with psychedelic drugs without their consent to unlock repressed memories. Oh, and they'd also be able to commune with the dead. Well, sort of. Masha got high on her own supply so she could talk to her dead daughter, who she was still mourning. As Season 2 opens, the daughter's ghost is still hanging around and Masha is back in business, this time at a new sanatorium in the Bavarian Alps. At least the guests in Season 1 were more or less tolerable She was persuaded to set up shop again by her old mentor Helena (Lena Olin), who's bankrolling the operation so Masha can try out her revolutionary new treatment delivery system. Masha has become a global celebrity since the first outing, thanks to a bestselling book called, you guessed it, Nine Perfect Strangers. She's also the target of several federal investigations. The alpine location is ideal for her purposes. The mountains block out mobile phone signals and the roads are impassable by car, meaning those nasty prosecutors won't be able to serve her their writs and the new batch of guests won't easily be able to bail out if they get fed up with the whole thing. Luckily, viewers can leave any time they want, and I'm betting quite a few will long before the eight episodes are up. At least the guests in Season 1 were more or less tolerable. The new lot – who all know they'll be given drugs now that Masha's treatment methods are out in the open – are for the most part thinly-drawn clichés and supremely irritating. Christine Baranski, doing her usual Christine Baranski shtick, but without any funny lines to back her up, plays the sex-mad Victoria. She's agreed to meet up with her daughter Imogen (Annie Murphy), a whingeing, permanently angry Millennial who becomes even more whingey and angry when she discovers her mother has brought along her latest toyboy, Matteo (Aras Aydin). Tina (musician King Princess), a pianist and former child prodigy who now refuses to play, has been dragged to the sanatorium by her girlfriend Wolfie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) in the mistaken belief she was going for a holiday in a luxurious spa resort rather than a spell in a psychological torture chamber. Dolly de Leon is Agnes, a celebrity nun (eh?), who's lost her faith. Henry Golding is Peter, who's awaiting the arrival of his father, billionaire businessman David (Mark Strong), on whom Masha, who has previous with him, seems to be fixated. The only cast member who makes an impression is Murray Bartlett, excellent as ever, as Brian, a puppeteer and former children's TV presenter who's been unravelling ever since his show was cancelled after he had a meltdown on set that went viral. 'It is only the beginning,' Masha tells an adoring conference audience early on. Nope, Masha, for some of us, it's the end. I'm checking out. Rating: One star
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nicole Kidman 'up for' bringing together all her TV characters into one show
Nicole Kidman would be "up for" uniting all her TV characters into one show. The 57-year-old actress - who has appeared in programmes including 'Nine Perfect Strangers', 'Big Little Lies', 'The Undoing' and 'The Perfect Couple' in recent years - is always "game" for a new challenge and thinks it would be "hilarious" to bring all of her alter egos together. Asked about the possibility, she told People magazine: 'That's hilarious. I'd be up for it. 'As you know, I'm up for most things. I like to be able to say I'm game. So I'm always ready to try things. 'I have a huge passion for what I do. I love doing what I do, and I've been incredibly fortunate in my journey, and I'm just always a bit excited. I don't take any of it for granted. I'm like, 'Okay, thank you. Thank you, universe.' " Nicole can next be seen reprising her role as lifestyle guru Masha in a new series of 'Nine Perfect Strangers' and she was thrilled to get the chance to play such a "shark" again. Asked why she signed on for a second season, she said: 'Because she's fun and powerful, and [castmate] Maisie [Richardson-Sellers] said something like, 'Masha sharks it.' So I was like, 'What does that mean?' But I think that means she's a shark. She comes in, and I don't get to play sharks very often." Despite being "up for" most things professionally, Nicole insisted she won't be enlisting husband Keith Urban - the father of her daughters Sunday, 16, and 14-year-old Faith - to be her co-star in any of her TV shows or movies. She said: 'We're together in life, so we don't need to do our show together. Our life is a show.' The 'Babygirl' star - who also has Isabella, 32, and Connor, 30, with her ex-husband Tom Cruise - has also turned her attention to producing but teased recently that she is "still finding [her] voice behind the camera, and hopes her "best work" is still to come, having been mentored by the likes of former Paramound Pictures chief executive Sherry Lansing. She told HELLO! Magazine: "I love the involvement and the collaboration that being a producer offers. "I've had an amazing group of mentors and people who have pushed me. "But I'm still finding my voice, and I'm hoping that I haven't done my best work yet."
