Kidman, Penn Allowed On UN Premises 'Interpreter'

[Thursday, January 29th, 2004]
Sydney Pollock is being allowed to shoot in the United Nations building for his movie The Interpreter, which is to star Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, according to Variety.

Pollock has got permission which normally is turned down, one famous case is with Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest.

Chile's U.N. ambassador, this month's Security Council president, said on Tuesday he was asked by a senior U.N. official for his consent. He said the only query in the 15-member council came from his Spanish colleague, Ambassador Inocencio Arias, who wondered how one became an extra.

Kidman would play a Kenyan-born U.N. interpreter who overhears an assassination plot, becomes a target herself and helps stop the killing of an African leader addressing the U.N. General Assembly.

Munoz said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had given permission in principle and that the conclusion of The Interpreter was consistent "with U.N. values."

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