Nicole Kidman was supposed to starr in 'Panic Room'

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Nicole Kidman was supposed to play Kristen Stewart's mom in 'Panic Room'

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated 1/27/22

Kristen Stewart's acting career was already an embarrassment of riches at 10 years old.

For Variety's "Actors on Actors" series, Stewart sat down with Nicole Kidman — and the two powerhouses reminisced on nearly co-staring in "Panic Room."

Before Nicole Kidman bowed out of #PanicRoom due to an injury, she spent weeks rehearsing with 10-year-old Kristen Stewart. "You were so nice to me," Stewart recalls. "You gave me walkie-talkies for Christmas!"https://t.co/znedDJtFOP pic.twitter.com/QvmKGBqnvg
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"I remember David Fincher saying, 'Oh, my God, we have discovered the most incredible. incredible actress,'" Kidman said. "And then I got injured and ended up not playing your mama, and Jodie [Foster] came in and just was brilliant."

"It's crazy how stuff falls off the truck like that because we spent a couple weeks rehearsing," Stewart added. "I was a little guy, but it's an interesting time to meet somebody and also have a sort of vivid memory of it because people — the way that you treat kids is so telling of you, of anyone. I just felt like I was buds with you, and that says so much.

"It was two or three weeks, but I was always like, 'Oh yeah, she's one of my friends,'" Stewart continued. "You gave me walkie-talkies for Christmas."

Directed by Fincher and written by David Koepp, 2002's "Panic Room" followed mother-daughter pair Meg Altman (Foster) and Sarah Altman (Stewart) after they've moved into a new home and have to hide in the steel-encased "panic room, a safe room" when three men break in and search for a missing fortune.