Nicole Kidman to Play Dusty Springfield

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It looks like we'll be hearing Nicole Kidman sing again a she's reportedly taking on Dusty Springfield in a new biopic of the singer's life. The Hollywood actress will team up with Michael Cunningham who scripted her Oscar-winning performance in The Hours.

The film will be about Springfield's fame and the 60s, her battles with alcohol, drugs, and mental illness before she lost her battle with breast cancer in 1999.

Cunningham said:

"It will be the real Dusty. A great artist who no one knew what to do with. But she is going into history with The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.".

I wouldn't go as far to compare her to The Beatles or the Rolling Stones, but she's definitely part of music history. She put out some great stuff. I think one of the songs I enjoyed the most was her duet she did with the Pet Shop Boys in the 80s, "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"

Below is Dusty singing her first solo hit, "I Only Want To Be With You" on Dutch TV on January 23, 1964.