Nicole defends 'Birth'

Nicole Kidman has defended her controversial new movie ‘Birth’, in which she plays a woman who believes her dead husband is inhabiting a 10-year-old boy’s body.

A scene in which Kidman and the boy share a bathtub caused a stir and drew boos when the movie was screened at the Venice Film Festival.

“I see this as a beautiful film about love, I do not see it as something that is exploitative or distasteful,” the 37-year-old actress said in a television interview.

“I would never want to make something like that it’s just not my thing.”

Lauren Bacall, who plays Kidman’s mother in the movie, became irritated during an interview last month when Kidman was described as “a legend.”

But Kidman said that she and Bacall, 80, are firm friends. “I adore her,” she said.