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‘Gotham’ star uses role to keep brother in check

NEW YORK

Talk about a way to keep a young sibling in check.

Clare Foley, who plays Ivy Pepper in Fox’s Batman prequel “Gotham,” says she’s got her baby brother convinced that she is the future Batman nemesis — and she’s using it to her advantage.

In an interview this week, the 13-year-old actress said she thinks “it’s kind of funny” that 4-year-old Declan, the youngest of her four brothers, truly believes that she and the character she plays — the orphan daughter of the man framed for the murders of Bruce Wayne’s parents — are one and the same.

Her mom says Declan was so frightened at one point that they had to assure him that his big sister was the “good Ivy.”

As for her other brothers, Foley laments that she doesn’t get the same respect. Also Batman fans, they think it’s “very cool” she has the role, but she says they realize that “I’m just their sister.”

Nicole Kidman explains ‘awkward’ experience with Jimmy Fallon

LOS ANGELES

Nicole Kidman says she wasn’t exactly trying to “seduce” Jimmy Fallon when the two went on a date years ago.

The actress reminisced with “The Tonight Show” host about their encounter at Fallon’s New York apartment in an “awkward” interview this week.

“Um, was I trying to seduce him? I don’t know if seduction is part of my repertoire. I think I was more just kind of open to the idea, which never eventuated, so ...,” Kidman said Thursday while promoting her new movie, “Paddington,” which opens Friday.

The two were set up by a mutual friend when both were single, a bit before Kidman starred in 2005’s “Bewitched.” Both are now married with children. Fallon said in the interview that he hadn’t realized the meeting was a date. He blushed and dived under his desk at one point in embarrassment.

Kidman apparently was also embarrassed while telling the story.

“So not planned. I mean, that should be apparent because it was so — I mean. Anyway, he’ll kill me. As I said, I’ll probably never be asked — I’ll never go back on the show. No, just joking,” she said.

Associated Press