There are 102 acting credits against Nicole Kidman’s name on her IMDB entry, which also reminds us that she is an Oscar winner, as well as the recipient of more than 100 other acting awards.
However, there is one role she has revealed she’d consider revisiting, and it is perhaps one of her sometimes overlooked performances.
Kidman told The Guardian newspaper:
“Actually the character I would love to go back to is the character in The Others [the 2001 gothic horror directed by Alejandro Amenábar], Grace.
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Set in 1945 on the island of Jersey off the British Isles, The Others sees Kidman’s character desperate to protect her two young photosensitive children from the light, by fighting to keep the curtains closed at all times. As new staff infiltrate the house and she begins to experience new visions and sensations, Grace becomes more and more doubtful of her own mind, until the final twisting denouement. The film, made on a budget of $17million, went on to garner $210million at that year’s box office.
Kidman explained: “Because I feel like The Others gets overlooked and I loved that character.”
Her latest role, as a sexually awakened female CEO overwhelmed by lust for a junior colleague in Babygirl directed by Halina Reijn, has earned her a Golden Globe nomination following a Best Actress gong at Venice International Film Festival. Kidman told The Guardian why she couldn’t have given the same performance had she not been working with a female director, explaining:
“I don’t think I could have given the performance with a male director. She was the one that wrote it. She was the one that understood it. A man directing this, it wouldn’t have been the same, because he can’t actually be in my body, but she can.
“We share that form, and so we have the ability to communicate telepathically almost, with an understanding of what our bodies will do. And all bodies are different, but there’s a safeness, and there’s a secrecy almost to the sexuality that had to be shared. And that’s why it was a very, very, very different experience for me.”
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