What the Hell Happened to Nicole Kidman (movie Samantha)?

[TMC]

http://lebeauleblog.com/2013/04/20/w...nicole-kidman/

Later that year, Kidman starred opposite Will Ferrell and Shirley MacLaine in Nora Ephron’s big-screen adaptation of the TV show, Bewitched.

Ephron was faced with a big problem. Although beloved by many, Bewitched didn’t have enough substance to base a movie on. Her solution to the problem scores points for originality. Instead of adapting Bewitched, she made a meta movie about a Hollywood adaptation of Bewitched.

Ferrell played a vain actor cast in the role of Darrin in a Bewitched movie. Afraid of being upstaged, he insists that an unknown play Samantha. Kidman played a real witch who moved to LA to try to live a normal life. Eventually she is cast in the role of Samantha in the movie-within-a-movie.

Originality was about the only thing the movie had going for it. Fans of the show were disappointed by the meta concept. Reviews were terrible. The movie disappointed at the box office. Kidman and Ferrell won a Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple.

[comedyfreak]

It was bad casting and a bad story all around. I would have chosen Jim Carrey for Darrin since he really does resemble and has the same mannerisms of Dick York.