Nicole Kidman Refused to Say "N" Word for Controversial Paperboy Role

Mike Gallagher

Oct 4, 2012 - 07:11

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Nicole Kidman Refused to Say "N" Word for Controversial Paperboy Role

Nicole Kidman went outside of her comfort zone to play a sexy role in The Paperboy, but there was one thing she wasn't willing to do.

"I asked her to use the 'N' word," director Lee Daniels revealed Wednesday during a press conference for the film. "I could feel the racial tension there in the town. She said, 'I won't do it.' I told my producer, 'She won't do it!' Then he mapped it out -- 'Lee, day one she is on a washing machine, day two she is urinating on Zac Efron, day three she's having telepathic sex . . . I think you can forgive her."

Kidman, 45, plays a trashy, bleach-blonde woman in the dark, twisted film set in the 1960s. The Paperboy stars Efron and Matthew McConaughey as two brothers investigating the case of a death row inmate played by John Cusack, who Kidman's character is obsessed with marrying.

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