This One Line From The Undoing Plays on a Loop in My Head
This One Line From The Undoing Plays on a Loop in My Head
Upper East Side Nicole Kidman is my favorite Nicole Kidman.
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My brain is sticky for throwaway lines, pieces of dialogue that are inconsequential, except that I would never in a million years think to say that word that way. Think: the way Carrie Fisher says “Really. Married.” at lunch with Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. It’s a laugh line, but the delivery is so specific and so utterly disappointed that it surprises me every time. The way Clive Owen, in Closer, sneers when he calls Jude Law the lowest of all professions: “You writer!” This is a column where I write about line readings I like, and usually they fall into that category: Julianne Moore, in Magnolia, saying “And you fucking ask me my life?” isn’t one of those lines that would be on the top of that AFI list I dutifully printed…
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