Nicole Kidman Originally Had Kate Winslet Quot Role In Quot The Reader Quot

So I came back to Kate Winslet, who was available at that point. Al Q A screening of The Reader in New York on Tuesday night, director Stephen Daldry has revealed the back story of how Kate Winslet was cast in his film. So I offered to Nicole Kidman, I have worked with before, and she said yes. .. We started filming for several weeks, she was filming scenes in t, when we have word that she was pregnant.