Kidman set for stardom

It's not every day when an actor playing a side kick role, ends up being push into the foreground and having some of the script changed in order to give them more screen time. But this is exactly what happened to Nicole Kidman, in her first feature film, BMX Bandits.

Director Brian Trenchard-Smith, fell in love with Kidman during her first audition for the movie. "When she came in, I could tell right away that she had great dramatic instinct. Some people are born actors. They have a grasp on how to make a line of dialogue believable" - BTS Entertainment  Weekly. However, the producers didn't feel as convinced as Trenchard, claiming Kidman was much taller than the other leads they'd already cast. But Trenchard stuck to his gut feeling and pushed the fact that she had a great look and excellent on-screen chemistry, which eventually won the producers over.

Throughout the filming of BMXB, Trenchard eventually started to position Nicole in the foreground, give her more screen time and dialogue. " I just knew that she had tremendous drive and was very dedicated and my feeling was she would go far" - BTS Entertainment Weekly.  Which she did!

After BMX Bandits, Trenchard introduced Nicole to Douglas Netter, the producer of Five Mile Creek. Who eventually got her in as a regular and asked Trenchard to direct her first episode. Trenchard would continue to introduce Nicole to agents and producers in an attempt to help her career blossom. But it was after the film, Dead Calm, with co-stars Sam Neil and Billy Zane that she would find herself one of Hollywoods family favorites, which one could argue, all started from her role in BMX Bandits.

But how could I end this paragraph without some slight trivia. During the filming of BMXB, Nicole, although an adamant bike rider, needed a stunt double to handle the more, dangerous of tricks. However, the production company could not find a female stunt double with similar physiological characteristics as Nicole, so they used a slender teenage boy wearing a red wig instead.