Nic throws herself into New York role

OSCAR winner Nicole Kidman isn't having a knee-sy time of it as she films her latest movie in New York.

- Chris Riches

Not only is the actress left battered and bruised after falling on a grimy sidewalk, she is then flattened by a huge hound.

But when the cameras stopped rolling she immediately hugged her four-legged colleague and smiled at the crew members helping her up.

Her film Babygirl is far from a slapstick, as may be inferred by these photos, but is billed instead as an erotic thriller.