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Nicole Kidman, who was caught in Hong Kong quarantine storm, back in US after completing filming in city, publicist says

  • Hollywood actress stirred controversy over being granted exemption from the city’s lengthy quarantine period
  • Has finished shooting her scenes on time and as planned

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Nicole Kidman is spotted filming in Mong Kok last month. Photo: Winson Wong
Laura Westbrook
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman, who caused an outcry when she was exempted from quarantine upon arriving in Hong Kong for a shoot last month, has returned to the United States, her publicist has said.

“Nicole left Hong Kong when she finished shooting her scenes on the series Expats on time and as planned. She returned home to the US,” Kidman’s publicist Wendy Day stated in an email to the Post.

“The production continues to film with further scenes not involving Nicole and her co-star, Brian Tee,” she said, adding that 44-year-old Tee had also left Hong Kong on Sunday after having completed his scenes.

Day did not confirm whether Kidman, 54, would return to Hong Kong.

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Kidman and her husband, singer Keith Urban, have made their main home in Nashville, but also own residences in Los Angeles, New York and Sydney.

Americans are not required to quarantine on arrival in the US.

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Previously, local media reported that the actress had made an application for two months of leave, and flew out of the city on a private jet on Sunday. She was expected to return in November.

The star had been in town filming the new Amazon Studios drama Expats, but was said to have had differences of opinion with series director Lulu Wang, and was uncomfortable with working conditions on set.
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