This article is published in number 13 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 29, 2022
Often, as a woman, if you’re smart, you almost feel like you need to apologize. Lucille never apologized for her intelligence. ‘ Lucille stands for Lucille Ball, American TV legend. To quote her is Nicole Kidman, who plays her in About the Ricardos (original title: Being the Ricardos) by Aaron Sorkin, a role that earned her the nomination for best actress.
Whether she wins the Oscar or not, she is not the first formidable female figure, and more truly existed, in Kidman’s award-winning curriculum: Virginia Woolf (The Hours), Martha Gellhorn (Hemingway & Gellhorn), Diane Arbus (Fur – An imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus), Grace Kelly (Grace of Monaco). Each time she infuses the characters with such humanity that she falls ill, takes on their suffering, aligns her immune system with theirs. It happened later Big Little Lies – Little big liesin which he took on the role of a wife who was a victim of violence: «Often the body
he doesn’t know how to distinguish between reality and fiction ”, he continues.
Despite being the daughter of a psychologist (and biochemist) and having played disturbed characters in Batman Forever, The Undoing – The Untold Truths and Nine Perfect Strangers, Nicole Kidman is not very inclined to introspection: “I try not to analyze things too much,” she says shortly before minimizing her forty-year career: “I’ve always just found myself in the right place at the right time”. She doesn’t even define herself as a movie star: “My job is to focus on emotions and convey them.” She considers herself a character actor who, like Lucille Ball, has become aware of the power of being behind the camera. After launching Blossom Films over a decade ago with Per Saari, she committed to creating more opportunities for women. One of her next projects, Roara dark comedy anthology composed of eight stories that illustrate what it means to be a woman today, found an enthusiastic partner in Apple: “It’s a series that is in some ways a bit weird, which is perfectly fine: I’m a bit weird too and I like to support other weirdos ».
Nicole Kidman appreciates being able to reach viewers through the most democratic medium of streaming, and has felt the difference in audience response. «Before Covid, people used to say: ‘Can I hug you? I want to tell you my story ”. It had become an immediate, extraordinary relationship, very different from what I was used to. Movies like Portrait of a lady And Eyes Wide Shut they did not arouse these reactions, they left more detached ». The future? “When I no longer take on every role as if I had just left acting school, then it will no longer make sense to do this job.”
Nicole Kidman appreciates being able to reach viewers through the most democratic medium of streaming, and has felt the difference in audience response. «Before Covid, people used to say: ‘Can I hug you? I want to tell you my story ”. It had become an immediate, extraordinary relationship, very different from what I was used to. Movies like Portrait of a lady And Eyes Wide Shut they did not arouse these reactions, they left more detached ».
The future? “When I no longer take on every role as if I had just left acting school, then it will no longer make sense to do this job.”
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