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Hat: Nicole Kidman says this costume element affected her movements.
(Ken Regan / Paramount Vantage)

NICOLE KIDMAN

By Paul Lieberman
November 21, 2007
On costume designer Ann Roth, who won an Oscar for "The English Patient," and grappling to figure out her Margot in "Margot at the Wedding"

"She just gave me the hat," which was floppy and reddish (think Diane Keaton). "She said, 'Here you go, walk around with that on.' " Then Roth gave her linen pants (think Hepburn) and director Noah Baumbach gave her a wine glass to hold at rehearsals. "Slowly these exterior kind of behavioral things started to just help me with the characterization. The way I walked, moved my head, because of the hat, and . . . a different gait because of the pants. And the wine actually penetrated deeper because there's something about just always having a wine glass."

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