Nicole Kidman Reveals the Actual Stories Behind Her Most Famous Memes

Nicole Kidman has some bad news for anyone who is strongly invested in the idea that she claps like a seal. Or that she celebrated her divorce from Tom Cruise by throwing open her arms, tilting back her head and cheering. Or that she reacted to Will Smith smacking Chris Rock at the Oscars by rising up out of her front-row seat with her mouth agape. “There’s always something behind the actual images that go out there,” and none of is actually what is being speculated, the Oscar-winning actress told GQ magazine about her most famous memes. At the 2017 Academy Awards, she was filmed clapping just her palms, her long fingers curved back like a marine mammal’s fins. “I had a massive heavy borrowed ring on and it was really painful, and I was scared of wrecking the jewelry,” she explained. As for the picture of her “celebrating” her divorce, “That was from a film, that wasn’t real life,” she said. She also confirmed that she wasn’t really reacting to Smith’s infamous slap at the 2022 Academy Awards. The photographer who shot the viral image had previously said it was taken hours before the ceremony started, when Kidman saw actress Jessica Chastain. But there’s one meme that Kidman is fully on board with: the infamous “Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this” line from her AMC Theatres ad urging movie-goers to return to theaters after the Covid-19 pandemic. “I’ll do anything for cinema, so you can meme me as much as you want,” she said.

Beyoncé will be performing the halftime show at NRG Stadium in her hometown of Houston when the Texans play the Baltimore Ravens during the first of two games being streamed live by Netflix on Christmas Day. Netflix announced the performance with a trailer posted on social media. According to the company, the halftime show will be the “first live performance of songs from genre-bending and record-breaking album Cowboy Carter.” Netflix will broadcast two NFL games on Christmas Day, the latest venture in the company’s attempt to break into live sports broadcasting. However, critics are skeptical of Netflix’s ability to seamlessly stream the events after the primetime boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson broadcast last Friday was beset with streaming issues, including frozen loading screens and long buffering times for the prize fight. About 60 million households tuned in to watch the fight, Netflix announced on Saturday. Adding one of the biggest pop stars in the world to the bill could attract even more viewers in December.

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NBA star LaMelo Ball was fined $100,000 over the weekend after uttering an anti-gay term during a televised post-game interview. The 23-year-old Charlotte Hornets guard was “very apologetic” after the incident, which took place following the team’s nailbiter of a win over the Milwaukee Bucks Saturday night, according to Hornets coach Charles Lee. “As an organization that is obviously not something we condone, our standards and what is required of our players in the environment we create is really important to us,” Lee said. “I spoke to Melo and he’s obviously very apologetic. From what I’ve seen since I’ve been around him, he loves everyone. He’s a joy to have around the facility and it’s not typically how he operates. He and I talked about the seriousness of the situation and how he needs to conduct himself going forward.” Ball was not made available to reporters prior to the Hornets’ game against the Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday night.

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At least 160 homes in New York were given voluntary evacuation orders on Saturday night after windy conditions exacerbated a wildfire and pushed the blaze toward a town near the New York-New Jersey border. The Jennings Creek Fire has burned over 5,200 acres and is approximately 88 percent contained, a spokesperson for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation told the Daily Beast, but a state of emergency in Orange County, New York, was extended again through Monday. The evacuations took place in the communities of Greenwood Lake and Wah-ta-Wah Park, both of which are part of the Orange County town of Warwick. A spokesperson for the DEC said the evacuations were “successful and allowed emergency apparatus and firefighters to operate uninterrupted through the night.” It was not immediately clear how many residents evacuated on Saturday night, or how many returned to their homes on Sunday—although the order remains in place. “Our goal will be to get residents back home by tomorrow and we will evaluate if that can be done safely during our morning briefings,” a Warwick supervisor announced in a social media post on Sunday. The fire has already killed one person earlier this month, an 18-year-old Parks Department employee who was battling the blaze near Greenwood Lake, the New York State Police confirmed.

Alec Baldwin may have sparked laughter—and risked Donald Trump’s fire and fury—with his portrayal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Saturday’s Saturday Night Live, but that didn’t come without his own mistakes. The actor was ridiculed online after viewers noticed the actor had his fly down during the show’s end-of-episode bow. Some of the online mocking speculated whether the actor was intoxicated, while other armchair quarterbacks yelled at the comedian to gather himself. “Hey @AlecBaldwin learn how to zip your pants!” one fan posted to X. Baldwin spoofed the vaccine-skeptic-turned-cabinet-nominee during Saturday’s Charli XCX-hosted episode, his second appearance on the program this season after he lampooned Fox News' Bret Baier last month.

Matt Gaetz’s hometown newspaper slammed the former Florida congressman, calling upon the Senate to “prevent” his confirmation as attorney general. “Gaetz, who has called for defunding the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies, should be kept as far as possible from the Justice Department,” the editorial board of South Florida’s Sun Sentinel wrote on Thursday. When announcing the nomination, President-elect Donald Trump claimed Gaetz would “root out systemic corruption” at the DOJ. His decision was met with a flurry of controversy and shock. Gaetz, a fierce Trump ally, was the target of a two-year House Ethics Committee’s investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, sex trafficking of a minor, and illicit drug use. The Sun Sentinel branded the ex-House representative as a “rogue Florida congressman,” and “provocateur who’s good at delivering rhetorical red meat on the MAGA speaking circuit.” His attorney general nomination, they added, “lays bare the depth of Trump’s contempt for our vital national law enforcement apparatus and his determination to use it as a blunt instrument to seek revenge on his opponents.”

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President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory. Officials told the Washington Post that Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, are likely to be first used against Russian and North Korean forces to defend Ukrainian troops operating in Russia’s western Kursk region. Biden reportedly made the decision, which the New York Times reported divided his advisors, in response to Russia’s unexpected decision to bring North Korean troops to the front, hoping it will deter Pyongyang from sending any more forces. Russia is trying to retake sections of Kursk which were seized and secured by Ukrainian forces in August, with a rush of 50,000 forces, including some 10,000 from North Korea. ATACMS can be fitted with cluster munitions and conventional warheads, with a 190 mile range. The White House is trying to rush some $9 billion in aid to Ukraine before president-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. Trump—who called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to invade Ukraine “genius” in 2022—has vowed to limit additional support to Kyiv and claims he will end the conflict with Russia, though has offered no details.

Amazon MGM’s Red One seems primed to live in the red after the $250 million film opened to $34.1 million this weekend, a dismal showing during a quiet theatrical weekend. The film, starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans on a quest to rescue a kidnapped Santa Claus, also had a hefty $100 million marketing budget, according to Variety, making any quest toward a profit more a stroll than a sprint. The film still earned millions more than Venom: The Last Dance, which raked in $7.3 million in its third weekend. Theatrical showcases have been few and far between throughout the fall as exhibitioners gear up for the late-autumn tentpoles in Wicked, Gladiator II, and Moana 2, all of which open before the Thanksgiving holiday. “The one-two punch of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ are poised to deliver, along with “Moana 2,” one of the biggest Thanksgiving periods in box office history,” senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian told Variety. “And it can’t get here soon enough.”