Thandie Tidbits:
MTV:
Thandie Newton may be best known for playing desirable women in dramas like "The Truth About Charlie" and "Crash," but next month she'll make her comedic debut opposite Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy. "It's a very wacky, insane story, but I play a very kind, very optimistic, happy girl," Newton said of "Norbit," a "Klumps"-like comedy featuring a heavily made-up Murphy as not only the put-upon main character, but also his obese bully of a wife, neglectful Asian stepfather and other characters. "I'm the love interest for one of Eddie's insane characters," Newton laughed, referring to the repressed affections of Murphy's Norbit. "[All his] characters are believable, which is amazing." ...
Contact Music:
Movie beauty THANDIE NEWTON has a massive crush on Hollywood veteran
JACK NICHOLSON - but blew her one chance to seduce him. The actress - 34 and married to writer/director OL PARKER - literally bumped into the 69-year-old at the Venice
Film Festival, but was too star struck to talk. She explains, "Jack Nicholson's the only man who makes me star struck. I met him once at the Venice Film Festival when I was there to talk about THE CROSSING GUARD. "I fell into his lap by accident on a boat, then I sat opposite him and couldn't speak I was so over-awed. He's always so brilliant on screen."