Kidman Bidding for Asylum Novel Film Rights

20 April 2009

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Nicole Kidman is competing for the film rights to a novel about an asylumseeker as she is desperate to play the lead in a screen adaptation.

The Other Hand by British author Chris Cleave tells the story of a 14-year-old African who visits the U.K. in search of an English widow called Sarah.

According to British newspaper The Sunday Times, Kidman recently read the novel on a flight between Los Angeles and Australia and is so eager to play the role of Sarah that she is competing with a number of film studios to secure the film rights to the book.

The last time Australia-born Kidman played an English woman she scoopedan Oscar for best actress for her portrayal of novelist Virginia Woolf in The Hours.

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