Nicole Kidman causes a splash with titillating bath scene in new film

NICOLE KIDMAN gives audiences an eyeful with a sexy bath scene from her new film Queen of the Desert with James Franco and James Pattinson.

 

 

Nipple, sorry, Nicole Kidman gets everyone in a lather with her latest big screen outing.

The Oscar-winning actress takes a very revealing bath in the lavish historical epic.

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It may look like the old-fashioned version of wet t-shirt competition, but this is the way they used to take baths in olden days.

Even so, it seems like the director, Werner Herzog, made the most of the opportunity for titillation.

 

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The scene shows Nicole Kidman taking a bath in the desert while wearing a long white shift.

She was the female Lawrence of Arabia... and took him to bed

Nicole Kidman

Unsurprisingly, everything is revealed as the thin material become transparent when wet.

The scene seems in keeping with the bold, unorthodox character portrayed by the Aussie actress in the film.

Victorian explorer Gertrude Bell broke the conventions of society at the time, travelling through North Africa and taking lovers, including Lawrence of Arabia.

As an adviser to the British Empire and a trusted ally of the desert tribes, she was instrumental in the creation of the modern state of Iraq in 1921 after the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.

 

Bell was known as the unofficial Queen of the Desert for her pioneering and political achievements.

Although remours persist that she also gained the name thanks to her rumoured role as the lover of the first King of Iraq, Faisal bin Hussein.

Queen of the Desert tells the story of Bell's incredible life and features Robert Pattinson and James Franco as her lovers, T E Lawrence and Henry Cadogan.

"She's the female Lawrence of Arabia," says Nicole Kidman.

 

"She was English, and basically defined the borders between Iraq and Jordan that exist today, borders that she negotiated between Churchill and different Arab leaders, " Kidman continues.

"She went out to the desert with the Bedouin and all the different tribes that were feuding at the turn of the 20th century."

Despite the incredible souce story, the actress is not having very much lucky recently with grand biopics.

Kidman's recent outing as the ill-fated princess in Grace of Monaco was savaged and ridiculed by critics and bombed at the box office.

Nicole Kidman and Robert Pattinson in Queen of the Desert

 

Queen of the Desert has also had a troubled route to the big screen and was actually shot back in 2013 and 2014.

Although it debutted at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival it will only make it to cinemas in the US in March this year, with no international release dates confirmed yet. 

It currently has a disastrous rating of 6% on Rotten Tomatoes with reviewers calling it "a bit of a plod," and "a passionless trudge that lacks both sweep and psychological complexity."

However, most reviews have also praised the performances of Kidman and her co-stars

    

James Franco plays Henry Cadogan in the film

 

"Kidman convincingly manages to play Bell as a delicate yet determined twentysomething, forging her way across untamed deserts, but still fragile enough to fall in love on two separate occasions," says Variety.

"She carries the film more than competently," adds the Hollywood Reporter.

Bell herself died in 1926, aged 59, from a suspected overdose of sleeping pills.

She was buried in Baghdad and her funeral was a major political event, attended by British dignitaries and the kind of Iran.

Queen of the Desert has not yet received a UK release date.