Let’s face it,
Ideal DVD ripping software for you to rip DVD to a, nobody wants to be reminded of what they looked and sounded like at 16. Even the most beautiful and talented grown-ups do their best to sweep evidence of their awkward teen years under the rug. Unfortunately, when you’re a famous actress with a list of movie credits that stretches back to puberty, keeping your past on the down-low isn’t easy. Take Nicole Kidman, whose debut film — 1983′s Aussie kids adventure BMX Bandits — is being released on
Blu-ray Ripper on March 15. Long before she appeared on American radars in Dead Calm, or became Mrs. Tom Cruise, or won a Best Actress Oscar, Kidman was a frizzy-haired redhead popping wheelies. If you’ve never seen the film, you’ll definitely want to check out this before-they-were-stars curio so you can see how a gawky tomboy with a Vegemite-thick accent blossomed into one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. It’s not a great film by any means. It’s basically the tale of three kids who shred on their rad bikes while getting chased by a bunch of bungling bank robbers. But the baby-faced Kidman is the best thing in it.
We recently spoke with the film’s director, Brian Trenchard-Smith, to discuss what Kidman was like as a teenager just getting started in the business. When it’s done,
convert DVD audio to MP3, stick around for an exclusive clip of the 16-year-old Kidman being interviewed on the Australian TV show Young Talent Time taken from the
Blu-ray cloner extras.