Nicole Kidman slammed after skipping Hong Kong quarantine

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman has recently sparked a backlash in Hong Kong after skipping the country's strict COVID-19 quarantine to shoot the Amazon series, Expats in the city.

According to reports, Kidman took a private jet from Sydney to Hong Kong on August 12 and was exempted from the city's seven-day hotel quarantine for vaccinated people arriving from Australia, despite Sydney going into lockdown following a surge in Delta variant cases.

A local news outlet reported that Hong Kong's Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, "under mounting public pressure" to explain Kidman's preferential treatment, confirmed that the Australian actors and other film crew had been granted an exemption.

On social media, the reaction has been uniformly negative. "Dear #HongKong friends and family, while you are locked into a hotel room for three weeks, how does it feel to know that if you are from Hollywood, you are exempt from the barbaric quarantine rules HK residents are subjected to?" wrote a user on Twitter. "Olympic medalists are required to quarantine in HK but Nicole Kidman doesn't because she is a Hollywood star and needs to film Expats", tweeted another one.

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