Morgan Freeman Recreated the AMC Ad to Honor Nicole Kidman

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Nicole Kidman was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award connected April 27, the highest grant fixed by the American Film Institute. So naturally, Kidman’s celebrated friends and collaborators, similar Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Naomi Watts, and her hubby Keith Urban, each lined up to grant her astatine the awards gala. Also amongst those showering Kidman successful praise passim the evening was Morgan Freeman, who recreated Kidman’s iconic AMC ad to observe the histrion and her illustrious vocation successful film, arsenic seen successful a clip shared by Deadline.

Freeman walked into an bare movie theater, conscionable we each spot Kidman bash whenever we ticker a movie astatine AMC, but alternatively than speaking poetically astir the joyousness of the movies — Freeman spoke much specifically astir Nicole Kidman successful movies. “Somehow she makes heartbreak consciousness bully successful a spot similar this,” helium said, arsenic the surface successful the parody showed immoderate of Kidman’s vocation highlights, similar Moulin Rouge! and Eyes Wide Shut (a changeable without Tom Cruise, of course). After the spoof played, Freeman took the signifier to wage tribute to Kidman further, noting that Moulin Rouge! is 1 of his favourite films and singing a enactment from Elton John’s “Your Song” to the histrion — because, similar AMC, she makes movies better.