Nicole Kidman is outed as Valerie Plame

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Nicole Kidman has been cast as outed C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame in the movie biopic of her life setup at Warner Brothers.

Doug Liman (JUMPER) is set to helm. He told MTV that he is delighted to finally get the chance to work with the Australian actress after she was originally cast in his movie MR. AND MRS. SMITH before later dropping out...

Shes perfect if youve ever met Valerie. Nicole was supposed to play Jane Smith in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. We owe a movie together! Thats an unrequited thing between me and an actor where I fell in love with them for a role and never get to consummate it.

He goes on...

I have a really, really insane take on how to tell it. Its so outrageous, Liman enthused. Ultimately, Id be doing something no one has ever done before. Therefore its automatically appealing to me. Im just starting to explore whether is even possible to do.

Valerie Plame was a former a CIA officer who worked for the government for twenty years but had to retire in December 2005 when her identity was outed by an American journalist two and a half years prior. You can read about the extraordinary circumstances of her life on her Wikipedia page. Or just watch the video below (the second part is on Youtube)...

Kidman seems to be spot on casting. She is capable of strong lead performances for characters like this. She was great in THE INTERPRETER which came to mind straight away for me when I heard this casting, seems so perfect it couldn't have been anyone else.

Kidman's had her fair share of duds in the three years since THE INTERPRETER, I would love to see her return with a thunderous performance here. And anything that takes Liman away from hack projects he has been working on recently has to be a good thing.