Speaking at the Rome Film Festival, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman said she will give up the role in Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai's project Lady from Shanghai.

 

 

The Oscar-winning actress said she wanted to accompany her newlywed singer husband Keith Urban, who entered a rehabilitation treatment center Thursday for alcohol abuse.

 

The Grammy-winning singer is publicly acknowledged as a former cocaine addict.

 

Despite the cancellation of the Hong Kong project, the Australian beauty seems to have a compact schedule next year with two blockbusters, Gone with the Wind and the US$150 million project The Golden Compass, co-starring Daniel Craig. 

 

(CRI October 23, 2006)