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Nicole Kidman's Golden Globes Speech Was All About the 'Power of Women'


On Sunday, Nicole Kidman won a Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Limited Series for her performance in Big Little Lies, and fittingly, her acceptance speech was all about the power of women. While fighting back tears, the actress dedicated the award to her youngest two daughters, Sunny and Faith, before championing the actresses she’d worked with on the series.

“Thank you to HBO, Richard Plepler, for supporting and committing to us. When I say us, I’m talking about Reese Witherspoon and myself,” she said. “We did this because of our friendship, our creative union, and our support of each other. And I love you. Also, I want to say Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley and Zoë Kravitz, we sat at a table, we pledged allegiance to each other and commitment to each other and this is ours to share. Wow. The power of women.”

After thanking a long list of supporters, Kidman gave an especially powerful tribute to her mother, Janelle Kidman. “My mama was an advocate for the women’s movement when I was growing up, and because of her, I’m standing here,” she said. “My achievements are her achievements. Antonia Kidman, my sister, and I say thank you, Janelle Kidman, for what you fought for so hard.”

The actress continued by alluding to the anti-sexual harassment movement taking place not just in Hollywood, but many other industries as well, that was the topic of conversation on the red carpet Sunday night. In Big Little Lies she played the character of Celeste, who is trapped in an abusive marriage. “This character that I played represents something that is the center of our conversation right now: abuse,” she continued. “I do believe, and I hope, we can elicit change through the stories we tell and the way we tell them. Let’s keep the conversation alive. Let’s do it.”

Kidman concluded her speech with a shout-out to her husband, Keith Urban. “When my cheek is against yours, everything melts away,” she said to him. “And that is love. With that—it’s true. I love you so much. God bless you. Thank you.”

Like her Big Little Lies co-stars, Kidman wore black to attend the 2018 Golden Globes. Many actors and actresses donned black on Sunday in order to raise awareness about sexual harassment and assault, gender and racial inequality, and the #TimesUp movement. Along with her co-stars Zoe Kravitz and Reese Witherspoon, Kidman was one of 300 Hollywood women to sign an open letter introducing the #TimesUp movement, which raises awareness against workplace harassment and provides a legal defense fund for women in all industries.

Related: Nicole Kidman Got Subtly Political While Accepting Her Glamour Women of the Year Award





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'Little Women' PBS Miniseries Debuts First Trailer


Two years ago, the CW announced it was making a dark, gritty reboot of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. This is, after all, the same network that gave Archie and co. a sexy makeover on Riverdale. As reported by Deadline, the series would drop Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy in a post-apocalyptic Philadelphia, where they would try to uncover a widespread conspiracy while trying not to murder one another.

The trailer you’re about to see is not for this series, though. Unfortunately, we’ll never get to see this (frankly awesome) version of Little Women, as it was killed by the CW last year because “the script just couldn’t get there.” Instead, this trailer is for PBS’s decidedly dystopia-free miniseries remake of Little Women, which airs next spring. Starring Angela Lansbury as Aunt March and Emily Watson as Marmee, the Masterpiece adaptation of Little Women is a lot closer in tone and accuracy to the ’90s movie with Winona Ryder and Christian Bale.

The first trailer, which dropped on Monday, is only 30 seconds long and offers just a glimpse into what Masterpiece viewers can expect come May 13 and 20, 2018. It begins with Aunt March declaring, “Four small children is a recipe for heartache, headache, and indigestion” as the March sisters lob snowballs at one another. We get a first look at a rather dapper-looking Laurie (Jonah Hauer-King), Meg (Willa Fitzgerald) having the time of her life at Annie Moffat’s ball, and Jo (Maya Thurman-Hawke) being angsty about not having been born a boy. There’s not much of Beth (Annes Elwy) or Amy (Kathryn Newton), but it seems like they’ll get just as faithful of a treatment as their sisters.

This isn’t the only Little Women adaptation coming next year. According to Deadline, there’s a movie version in the works at ABC that puts the March sisters in modern times. Keep your fingers crossed—Little Women might be getting the Riverdale treatment after all.

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The 'Feisty Women' of 'Ocean's Eight' Have No Patience for Sexist Trolls


Like the rest of us, Sandra Bullock remembers all too well the nonstop stream of sexism faced by the cast of the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters last year—but she and the rest of the women of Ocean’s Eight are ready to defend themselves and their movie from any criticisms the trolls throw their way. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bullock explained why she, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Cate Blanchett, and the rest of the cast of the new installment of the (previously all-male) Ocean’s Eleven series won’t be fazed by misogynistic attacks.

Bullock, who plays Danny Ocean’s (George Clooney) sister Debbie in the upcoming film, said that she’s “still trying to figure out why” Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon were the targets of so much criticism before Ghostbusters had even arrived in theaters. “Forget what the final product was! There were four or five of the most talented comedians in that film. Everyone should’ve just taken a breath and said, ‘Let’s see what happens,'” she said. “It doesn’t take just five people to make a movie. It’s pretty much like around 300. So I keep reminding everybody, if you hate my film, remember there’s another 299 people all around me.” She continued, “We’re not a reboot. We’re just a ‘this is what’s happening in 2017.’ It’s not even a passing of the torch. It’s a parallel story of another family member that was raised in the same family Danny Ocean was, and what happens when Debbie steps out of jail with all of these amazing, powerful women.”

Bullock said that the Ocean’s Eight cast has already faced “some” sexism, “but boy, I mean, I’ll tell you, we’ve got some feisty women that will fight right back.” She added, “It’s like, let’s just take a breath and let’s just see if we come up with something fun. There should be a moratorium. There should be a rule: You’re not allowed to say anything nasty until after it comes out. Obviously, that’s never going to happen.”

The Oscar winner also talked about the collaborative environment of the Ocean’s Eight set. “If there’s ever more than two women in the film there’s rumblings of, ‘Oh, they’re having cat fights,'” she said. “[But] there was nothing, because, I think, because of the unique situation of this, and because we all are trying to achieve the same thing, we bonded pretty quickly out of necessity, and just because we like each other.” She continued, “I realized as women we have been isolated for a while. I don’t even want to touch on that other subject, but women are now taking care of each other. We all were like, okay, let’s just take care of each other for these six months and relish this opportunity we’re being given. But we don’t want it to be just for women. This is not a man-hating. We love the men. There’s men in this movie. We love them. But this one heist needs women.”

Ocean’s Eight hits theaters on June 8, 2018—but the first full trailer is rumored to be released sometime this month.

Related: Sandra Bullock Donates $1 Million to Hurricane Harvey Relief



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