To think Nicole Kidman's newest advert is even cringier than the Chanel one

[ConstanceMoan]

Wearing a wig she is new face of some airline or other

You'll need to scroll down for ad.

Is it more toe curling than the I love to dance cringe fest?

That looks bloody amazing.

I WANT TO TRAVEL WITH ETIHAD!

eeeee proper cringey stuff!!! Even with the sound off my toes were curling up. I imagined when she was being interviewed the sound of her eyebrow trying to lift was like the creaky sound Roger Moore's Spitting Image eyebrow used to make

It's not so bad tbh.
It's an advert for goodness sake!

( off to look on skyscanner to see if Ethiad fly Liverpool to Malaga!

Squoosh So do I, she looks great and I wish I had the £22,000 It would take to fly back to Australia :D

I wonder how much it costs to fly with them. You'd want it to be a long flight to get your money's worth!

Nicole Kidman gets on my wick and that little husband of her's who's always bouncing around her like a new puppy. She looks as though she wants to snap "down boy" at him all the time.

LadyT to look that great you'd need double that amount either to pay the botox\cosmetic artist and or the air brushing person

Oh no YADNBU Have you seen her in Bewitched? She's just soooo fake.

Constance, that photo sums up what I was going to say about how I feel she comes across - cold, aloof and she always has an expression on her face that looks if she's looking down on everyone as if they're dirt on her shoe (although that last one might be because her facial features have been frozen by too much botox or whatever)

Can't believe I had to watch a pre-advert to watch that, erm, advert!

I actually don't think it's as cringey as the Chanel one in which there was also a super-cringey man, but Kidman is really starting to bug me getting parts in films when she seems intent on becoming unable to move her face. I hated her in Paddington in a part that should have gone to Sheridan Smith or Maxine Peake. She wasn't in the spirit of it. Everyone else was cheerfully British with normal faces full of personality.

I don't hate her personally but I think botoxing your face into oblivion should rule you out of being in good films, because you just ruin them.

oops, didn't finish post ....re:the photo - she's turning away, arms by her side, no reciprocation and a fake, forced grimace smile on her face.

Cold as ice I reckon.

That is an astonishing amount of cosmetic work I reckon

So Nicole Kidman is today's whipping target?

I would be as cheesey as they like for a pay cheque from Ethaid

So Nicole Kidman is today's whipping target?

She deserves it for being so bad in Grace of Monaco that she made Naiomi Watts' portrayal of Princess Diana almost believable.

The one that really grates on me at the moment is the Natalie Portman one, it's a perfume one.

She jilts some poor bloke at the altar and pisses off in a helicopter with some other bloke with whom she has presumably been cheating on her fiance with, or she just lets random helicopter pilots snog her.

I feel very much that I'm expected to go 'Wooooo female empowerment and passion, look at you breaking conventions, you go girl! I will buy that overpriced perfume and follow my dreams'

Selfish bloody cow

That Natalie Portman one is weird. It's like a perfume ad crossed with an episode of The A-Team.

Why are people so judgmental to celebrities getting plastic surgery. I saw it on this thread and on the one about lana del rey. Nicole Kidman is more than her Botox and surgeries. She is a beautiful women and can we all be much nicer to celebrities who have had plastic surgery. Why is the surgery even relevant.

Well in the case of an actor it is relevant. Nicole Kidman is talented but I saw her in some film or other a while ago and her face was frozen from the botox. How can she act if she can't move her face?

As for Lana Del Rey I think it's sad that someone so young has had so much surgery.

Why is the surgery even relevant

She was naturally beautiful before the surgery, the question is why did she feel the pressure to try to maintain 'the youth'.

Because Hollywood loves the young and the beautiful, that's what's so fucking awful.

Only a few exceptions:
Meryl Streep
Diane Keaton
?
Can't think of any others atm.

Queenof I'm judgemental of anyone who thinks they shouldn't look older because it makes for a fake world, it doesn't look nice, and it percolates down to 'normal' insecure people who spend stupid amounts of money they don't have to look like dolls, it's ridiculous.

I totally agree that women who have the guts to keep their own faces (esp. actors) are to be admired and encouraged. Not called 'tired'.

You can't get brownie points for being "beautiful" when that "beauty" was achieved under the knife.

Fake fake fake.

Not that you should get brownie points for beauty. I mean, it's not an achievement like O Levels or learning to knit is it?

Agree with pleat fruit.

Emma Thompson and Kirstin Scott Thomas are two actresses who haven't messed with their faces and they look great.

Kathy Bates
Diana Rigg
Glenn Close
Julianne Moore
Sandra Bullock
Cate Blanchett
Helen Mirren
Judi Dench
Katharine Hepburn
Frances McDormand

I'm not saying none of them have had any work done, but they don't look like rubber masks. It's not true that there are no parts for older women who don't have loads of surgery and pretend to look forever 29.

It may be that there are fewer parts and that needs addressing, and there is more pressure on women who are getting older if they want romcom leading lady roles, and less equivalent pressure on men.

BUT the best female actors stick two fingers up to that and get to play the parts of older women who look their age. Julianne Moore just won an oscar for doing exactly that, in a film addressing an issue that affects older people.

Male or female, I don't enjoy watching any actor who can't move their face properly and seems primarily concerned with how young they look, because it detracts from enjoying the film / TV show properly. You're supposed to be seeing a character and their emotions and it means you can't believe in that.

I'm not slagging people off for having cosmetic surgery – I just don't like people who are supposed to be actors having so much cosmetic surgery that they can't do their job properly.

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Totally agree about the Paddington film. Such a shame they felt they had to bring in an American celeb like her. It didn't spoil it, but almost...
I can't work out whether she can act or not. The parts she has been best in require her to be a cold bitch (admit I haven't watched many of her films; do't seek her out)

The surgery is relevant because I like to watch actors who have expressive faces, not ones where every emotion looks the same.

I also like to see characters where mothers and grown-up daughters for example don't look as if there's only 5-10 years between them in age because the actress playing the mother has had so many fillers and proceedures.

But I don't think you can criticise without acknowledging the terrible double standards for male and female actresses.

If they were to cast Harrison Ford, or George Clooney, or even Matt Damon, against someone their own age it would look odd, so used are we to seeing them act alongside women 8, 10, 15, 20 years younger.

No wonder actresses feel they have to stay looking the same as they did 20 years before, when men are allowed to age