![]() It’s the opposite of her part in HBO’s “Big Little Lies.” Still, despite its small scale, the movie features Nicole Kidman as a brash punk rock promoter with loud volume and even louder hair. Nicole Kidman stars in John Cameron Mitchell’s new film, punk-alien love story “How To Talk to Girls at Parties.” A24/Everett Collection Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images “Sometimes, to my detriment, I don’t do jobs for money,” he says. Just the sort of fare Mitchell feeds off of. In it, an aspiring British punk rocker (Alex Sharp) falls in love with an American New Age cult member (Elle Fanning) who’s actually an alien. His latest, “How to Talk to Girls at Parties,” out Friday, is a genre-bender that mixes 1970s romantic comedy with science fiction. Now, when the director picks out-of-the-box projects, nobody bats an eye. Mitchell eventually replaced him, and won a Special Tony Award for it. “Hedwig” became a cult hit downtown, a 2001 film that he directed and starred in and a 2014 Broadway show with Neil Patrick Harris. And I was like, ‘How dare you? Versions of drag are as old as the Greeks!’” ![]() “It seemed to them to be a step down in my career. “They didn’t understand why I was doing it,” Mitchell, 55, tells The Post over lunch. ![]() When John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in the drag musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” in 1998, his theater pals were stumped.
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