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Article: 'One gets paid to snog Ewan McGregor, the other to do the splits all night'; Life & Style: Everyone's talking about Nicole Kidman's role as a Moulin Rouge dancer. Alison Roberts goes to the Paris night club to find the real thing.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2001
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Byline: ALISON ROBERTS
THE girl sitting in the dressing room backstage at the Moulin Rouge the Moulin Rouge, in Pigalle, Paris - has long red hair, an Australian accent and legs encased in sparkly fishnets zooming up to her armpits.
This is not Nicole Kidman, however though she looks very like her), but Rachelle Connors-Sibbald, 27 this very day, and one of three principal dancers at the world's most famous nightclub. For a miniscule fraction of Ms Kidman's daily salary, Rachelle will dance twice tonight, once at nine and again at 11, sometimes wearing a top, sometimes not. She says she loves it, every last bit of it, but her real ambition is to perform ...