From the interview:

Daniel Craig can’t stand listening to Nicole Kidman. In fact, it’s so painful that he has stuck his fingers in his ears and is humming loudly to drown her out. Meanwhile, Kidman is happily responding to a question about whether the 38-year-old actor changed after landing his role as James Bond last year.

“Oh, completely,” deadpans Kidman, 39, who was with him, shooting one of their upcoming films, The Invasion, when he got the call. “In 24 hours he became a diva,” she adds, with a nod toward Craig, who continues to hum his tune as the pair sit in the cozy bar of a London photography studio, where they’re sharing a bottle of sparkling water. But then Kidman breaks down and tells the truth: “Oh, he didn’t change at all,” she says in her haute-Aussie twang. “The thing about Daniel, and the reason I like working with him, is that he’s an actor’s actor.”

Of course, Craig has heard the whole thing, and he seems far more alarmed by the compliment than by the faux insult. “How dare you!” he shouts, and they both giggle.

It is a chilly, slate gray autumn Saturday, and Kidman, who’s barefoot and still wearing a caffe latte–colored Dior gown from the fashion shoot, and Craig, in a navy blue cardigan more suited to Mister Rogers than Mr. Bond, are punchy after a long day posing under hot lights. On Monday they’ll return to the London set of The Golden Compass, a fantasy-adventure film based on the first book in Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials. The movie, to be released later this year, is their second collaboration, the first being The Invasion, which is loosely based on Invasion of the Body Snatchers and is also due out in 2007.

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A DISTRAUGHT Nicole Kidman has called on police for protection, claiming her holiday with husband Keith Urban was ruined by harassment.

The star, who has been reunited with country music idol Urban, 39, after he began treatment for alcoholism, broke down in a roadside rage after requesting a police escort to help reach her Rosedale holiday home.

The outburst came when her ongoing feud with freelance photographer Jamie Fawcett boiled over again on New Year’s Eve after she said the celebrity snapper had been a constant presence during her break.

It was the first sign that Kidman, also 39, is not coping well with the public scrutiny of her marriage and Urban’s fall off the wagon.

Kidman is believed to have sent staff to make a complaint at Batemans Bay police station at noon on Sunday, saying the photographer had been a constant presence during her time away with Urban and her parents, Antony and Janelle Kidman.

The couple alleged Fawcett had a history of harassing Kidman and endangered her and others while following her.

Fawcett’s lawyers will appear at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on January 11 over allegations he was linked to bugging her Darling Point home this time last year. Checks on the police computer showed an AVO Kidman initiated over stalking claims was revoked in February last year.

Fawcett told The Daily Telegraph an unmarked highway patrol car was made available to Kidman’s convoy, which included a security vehicle carrying her minders and a black Audi driven by Urban.

The cars then set off for the couple’s Rosedale compound.

But just metres down the road, Fawcett claims the group pulled up, with the photographer taking the opportunity to begin snapping the stars.

Fawcett claims Kidman rolled down her window and angrily said: “f… off, Jamie.”

A Channel 10 news crew was also following and is believed to have filmed the altercation.

Kidman is upset and agitated in Fawcett’s photos, with Urban offering a calming hand.

“It was more her snapping than him. He appeared, in my view, to pull her back into the car,” Fawcett said.

“I was four or five metres from their car and entitled to be there. This situation was not my making. They pulled over.”

Batemans Bay police Inspector Gary Megay said the couple had been offered protection.

“Those roads around Rosedale are very narrow and with paparazzi around, we were just making sure everyone was safe,” he said.

Mr Megay said regular patrols found “no issues” with regard to harassment allegations.

The incident is believed to have led to an early end to the holiday trip, with the couple driving back to Sydney on Sunday and spending New Year’s at her sister’s Greenwich home. They flew out for Los Angeles on Kidman’s private jet early yesterday.

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Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban reunited in Sydney on Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean Urban is out of rehab, his rep says.

“Keith is on a leave in Australia to be with his family during the holidays,” Urban’s publicist, Paul Freundlich, tells the Associated Press. “This is a natural occurrence at this point in his treatment. He will continue with his rehab upon his return.”

The couple were photographed outside the Sydney offices of United International Pictures – their first appearance in public together since Urban checked into rehab in October.

Urban flew into Sydney on Tuesday, Australian Associated Press reported.

This visit marks Urban’s first time in Australia since he married Kidman in a lavish Sydney wedding in June. The couple, both 39, have been based mainly in Nashville, Tenn.

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Australia’s most famous couple, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, have been reunited in Sydney - just days after a woman claimed she’d had a long-running affair with the troubled country music star.

Urban, who had spent the past couple of months in rehab for alcohol abuse in the United States, reportedly flew back into Australia on Tuesday to be with his wife of six months.

The couple were caught by paparazzi leaving the United International Pictures office in the city on Wednesday.

Holding hands, the couple said nothing to the waiting snappers and quickly left in a luxury black car.

It’s the first time Urban has been home since the couple’s lavish and romantic June wedding at Manly.
He had been due to present an award at November’s ARIAs, but withdrew after he checked himself into rehab in October. He has previously acknowledged a former addiction to cocaine.

But Kidman was in Sydney just before Christmas.

The couple gave no sign of tension following an American model’s claim of an affair with Urban which she said ended only a month before his wedding to Kidman.

Amanda Wyatt, a 23-year-old part-time model who met Urban at a bar, told a London newspaper their relationship began in 2004 and continued until May this year - the month before Urban and Kidman married.

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