Nicole and Matthew Spill the Stepford Secrets

Nicole and Matthew give us the scoop on all things "Stepford". Tune in...

Nicole Kidman as Joanna Eberhart- About her Character - I play Joanna who is this high powered out of control career woman who runs this network; and proceeds to have a breakdown. Her whole family is falling apart and her husband takes her off to Stepford, the town of Stepford, for her to recover and she goes because she wants to sort of salvage the marriage and that's how the movie begins.

About the world of Stepford - Everything is perfect and everybody is serene and nobody seems to have any stress and everyone lives in very, very big houses and nobody rocks the boat, and that's what she finds kind of extraordinary.

On the dream wife of the average man - You ask a lot of men and they do say "Yeah, I would like it to go back to, you know, the Nineteenth century when women didn't really work and they didn't really have an opinion, and it was all about me". You know, and a lot of men when they answer that question "Would you prefer your wife to exist completely for you, only for you and not to have an opinion?" If they answer it honestly, a lot of them say yes; I mean I don't know if deep down they would really want it but it certainly sounds appealing to them right?

On the cast - We have such a strong cast and we have, you know, Bette Midler, Glenn Close and, and Faith [Hill] doing her first movie.

Matthew Broderick as Walter Kresby- On the meaning of the term Stepford wife- It must be a powerful idea because it became a term that people use. "She's very Stepford" we hear, or "he's Stepford." I guess it was something to do with women's lib in the seventies and all these frightened men wanting to make a women behave like it was still the fifties.

On the roles of men vs. women - It's the battle that I guess everybody thought would be settled by now, but isn't. That is about, where men and women fit into roles, who does what, and, you know, men are from Mars and all those problems. But we do sometimes like different things.

On the cast - I think a lot of what the movie is, is Nicole Kidman, Chris Walken, Bette Midler all these, you know, great performers. To see them mix it up should be pretty exciting.