Luckily now you can just do the sparkle in post director Baz Luhrmann said of the history making custom necklace. Baz Luhrmann was ready for an Oceans 8 level heist on the set of “Moulin Rouge.
Oscar nominee Luhrmann recalled the strict security required for the then history making custom necklace worn by Nicole Kidman in the 2001 movie musical. While a crystal stunt double replica was made for a pivotal scene in which the necklace is ripped off of Kidmans Satine Luhrmann revealed that the real thing required its own security team.
Back in the day when we did Moulin Rouge we did our own version of a Cartier diamond necklace for Nicole Kidman Luhrmann told Vulture. See in those days you could not make something sparkle on film like real diamonds. You needed real diamonds. So that necklace is real. Its worth $2.5 million. The problem is if you bring something of real value on set you need two security guards standing by at all times. Luhrmann and his wife Oscar winning costume designer Catherine Martin conceived the lace diamond necklace with jewelry designer Stefano Canturi. The 134 carat white gold necklace is made up of 1,308 diamonds and has a Sri Lankan blue sapphire on the clasp per The Adventurine. Patricia Canturi the brand director of the Canturi label said Stefano spent weeks researching late 1800s French jewelry for the necklace to be as accurate as possible. Kidman neck and décolletage were fitted across three months for the custom piece. The iconic necklace currently resides in the private personal Canturi collection.
I am probably the Stanley Kubrick of confetti Luhrmann told Vulture of his signature Shakespearian operatic opulence onscreen. George Lucas saw The Great Gatsby and said The thing that you do is you create worlds and this is a great phrase with an immaculate reality. Meaning that it does not matter that the audience understands the rules on the outside only that on the inside the reality is immaculate. You can not just arbitrarily do a thing because you feel like it. The reality has got to be so immaculate that within it the audience will buy into the world. You have entered sci fi meaning you have entered another world an off planet world even though its set in this world.
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