The Emmy derby is about to get a massive A-list shake-up when HBO's original film "Hemingway and Gellhorn" makes its long-awaited debut Monday, May 28. The film screens out of competition at the Cannes filmfest the week before.
Golden Globe winner Clive Owen ("Closer," 2004) and Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman ("The Hours," 2002) lead an all-star cast that includes Oscar champ Robert Duvall ("Tender Mercies," 1983), Emmy victor David Strathairn ("Temple Grandin," 2010), SAG Drama Ensemble nominee Molly Parker ("Deadwood," 2007) and three-time Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub ("Monk," 2003, 2005, 2006).
The star appeal of its cast should give "Hemingway & Gellhorn" some major Emmy attention when nominations are announced July 19. However, when HBO recently confirmed with Gold Derby all of their acting submissions for the year, Duvall was a notable omission.
They've teamed up to play one of the most famous literary couples of all time and Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen have now teamed up for a suitably sophisticated photo shoot.
The Hemingway & Gellhorn co-stars embody classic, timeless Hollywood elegance in the magazine pictorial.
Though their film is set in the 1930s, their outfits seems to have been inspired by the AMC series Mad Men, which is set in the 1960s.
Old Hollywood glamour: Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen bring timeless elegance to the May cover of W
Kidman, 44, appears with a platinum-coloured bouffant hairdo in a series of both colour and black and white shots in the May issue of W magazine.
(HBO/Associated Press) - In this image released by HBO, Nicole Kidman, left, and Clive Owen are shown in a scene from the HBO film, “Hemingway & Gellhorn.” Owen and Kidman portray writer Ernest Hemingway and war reporter Martha Gellhorn in the film debuting in May
By Associated Press, Published: January 13
PASADENA, Calif. — Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen play writers Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway in a new HBO film, but they’d prefer to keep their own lives off-screen.
At a news conference Friday promoting “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” Kidman said she likes her privacy and protects it “quite diligently.” She and husband Keith Urban live in Nashville, Tenn., with their two daughters. Her British co-star shares her viewpoint. Of a Clive Owen biopic, he said, “I wouldn’t want to see it.”
“Hemingway & Gellhorn” is set to air in May. It’s about the passionate, short-lived relationship of Gellhorn, a daring war correspondent, and the great novelist.
Kidman says she enjoys portraying inspirational women “who defy the odds and that burn bright,” as Gellhorn did.
