Territorians and tourists watched from behind a line set up by guards as her character arrived at Stokes Hill Wharf on a dinghy. Another actor lifted her up by putting his hand on her bum - and got a dagger look from Kidman. She's been given the old Territory handshake, said one onlooker.
Every Territory girl has had one of those. But it was all part of the action - designed to show how Kidman's character is trying to make it in a male-dominated world. Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown and the cast of are in the Top End to film Darwin Harbour scenes Luhrmann said could not have been shot anywhere else.
Access to the wharf has been limited during filming on a closed set. And an exclusion zone has been declared by harbourmaster Bruce Wilson, preventing anyone going on the water within 300m of the wharf. Kidman plays an English aristocrat who flies into Darwin on a flying boat to sort out a cattle station she has come to own.
Old-looking boats are moored at the wharf for effect and metal pylons have been done up with fibreglass props to create the impression of an old wooden structure. The Darwin-shot scenes will make up less than five minutes of screen time, production staff said. Cars were banned from the wharf yesterday.
People were ferried from Frances Bay Drive past the set in a shuttle bus. Most of the movie is being filmed in Sydney and Bowen. But Luhrmann said he decided to film in Darwin because the colour of the harbour water could not be replicated.
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