A look back at Nicole Kidman's role in the 2003 film 'The Human Stain' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, 2003
Nicole Kidman and director Robert Benton at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, 2003
The project was one of just a handful of adaptations to be made from the novels of Philip Roth. In its review, The Hollywood Reporter was taken by"a sexy performance from a red-hot" Kidman. When the lifetime tributes start to roll in for Nicole Kidman, don’t expect more than a passing reference to 2003’s. The project was one of just a handful of adaptations to be made from the novels of Philip Roth .followed Coleman Silk, who lives a quiet life of writing and teaching in New England until he is accused by two black students of racism for his use of the word "spooks.
As the story unfolds, we learn Silk is in fact an African American who has spent most of his life passing as a Jew. The tricky subject matter, which in many ways predicted the wave of identity politics to come more than a decade later, was helmed by Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning writer-director of 1979’s
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