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Atqui I think her taking the stand was planned (by her) as she intended to 'put the boot in' in that she knew her blonde friend would tell the prosecutor about the conversation they had. So in order for those points to be raised, she had to be in the witness box.
Yes the while thing was planned when Nicole Kidman’s character phoned her lawyer friend Early in the morning and asked her to go for a walk with her as she wanted to talk to her. The lawyer friend knew the Prosecution lawyer from law school so would have passed the proposed plan and information about Hugh Grant’s past with Nicole Kidman‘s blessing. It was a clever twist that we didn’t see coming.