Kidman to shock in latest role

Nicole Kidman plays an “oversexed Barbie doll” in the hard-hitting murder drama The Paperboy, which premiered at the Cannes film festival yesterday.

The film is notable for arresting scenes of sex, violence, and urination.

In the adaptation of a Pete Dexter novel, the Australian Oscar winner plays trailer-trash bombshell Charlotte Bless, who is obsessed with a man on death row with whom she exchanges letters.