Nicole Kidman was taken to an L.A. hospital after the Jaguar she was driving crashed early Thursday during a shooting of her new thriller "The Invasion". The accident occurred when the car was being towed by a camera rig that skidded while cutting a corner at about 45 mph, causing the car to hit a pole.
Kidman and 8 other cast & crew were was examined at Cedars-Sinai as a routine precaution and released 2 hours later sans injuries, according to her publicist.
"The stunt driver apparently went off course and hit a light post at about 1 a.m.," police Officer Karen Smith said.
The Oscar-winning actress, who stars as a Washington psychiatrist who unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, was trying to escape Tom Cruise zombielike characters on the hood of the Jaguar when the crash occurred, Olim said.
An official statement is pending per Warner Brothers......
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