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The cast of The Paperboy hit the Cannes red carpet for world premiere.

Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron at a gala screening of The Paperboy at Cannes. Picture: AFP Source: AFP

Kidman as the trashy sexual predator Charlotte in The Paperboy. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

IF THIS year's Cannes film festival is remembered for one thing, it'll be the sight of Nicole Kidman urinating on Zac Efron.

The golden shower isn't a publicity stunt gone wrong, but a scene from Kidman's new film,The Paperboy, which made its debut at Cannes and is giving her the best reviews of her career.

Critics have called her trashy, predatory Barbie doll in Lee Daniel's humid, swamp thriller "funny, sexy, poignantly vulnerable (and) romantic".

Even those who booed the film at the press screening were kind enough to note that Kidman hasn't been this funny since her 1995 black comedy To Die For.

Kidman, who is in Cannes with her husband Keith Urban, said of the role: "Lee said to me, 'Look we've got no money, you're going to have to do your own hair and make-up.' So I went into my bathroom, and I got out the fake tan and I put on lashes, and I got out a hairpiece thing it was platinum.

"I put it all on and took a photo and texted it to Lee, in all kinds of different provocative positions. What he sent back, which I cannot say, but it was like 'Thumbs-up!"

"And that's how it started to percolate."

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