Nicole Kidman has taken on a collection of powerful roles, however to play a home violence survivor in HBO’s “Massive Little Lies” introduced a brand new stage of stress.
The Oscar winner and up to date AFI Life Achievement Award recipient instructed The Hollywood Reporter that whereas filming the beloved collection, she realized there actually wasn’t “the time to go, ‘I have to deal with myself’” on set, which led to her being so annoyed that she threw a rock by a locked door, breaking its window to get by.
Kidman was requested in regards to the notorious on-set filming tidbit in the course of the interview.
“Whoa, that’s proper!” Kidman mentioned. “I threw a rock as a result of [the door] was locked, and I couldn’t get in. I’d by no means carried out that in my life. I clearly [had a lot] pent up. I broke the entire thing. It break the bank.”
She continued, “After which I went again the subsequent day, and I mentioned to Alexander [Skarsgård] and [late director] Jean-Marc [Vallée], ‘I threw a rock by the window,’ they usually have been like, ‘Whoa.’ I mentioned, ‘I used to be form of pissed off.’ However there’s a means during which we function the place the present should go on, and so that you simply maintain going — you present up and also you do it and do it and do it and do it. And a number of instances, it’s six months of 12-, 14-hour days and there actually isn’t the time to go, ‘I have to deal with myself.’”
The “A Household Affair” actress admitted that she needed to discover ways to stability her roles by leaping from severe dramatic components to lighter comedies, or simply stepping away to regroup solely.
“I nonetheless have bother with no,” the actress/producer mentioned. “A part of what we do is dive into issues which might be deeply uncomfortable. And I’ve needed to train myself to not at all times go, ‘I can’t try this.’ My preliminary response will be that as an alternative of, ‘OK, ease into it.’ As a result of I have to be coaxed generally. I’m nonetheless discovering that compass.”
Kidman not too long ago starred in Lulu Wang’s critically acclaimed Amazon collection “Expats,” during which she starred as a girl in Hong Kong whose youngster goes lacking. Kidman shared that she “went loopy” a bit making an attempt to determine the fitting stability after the collection wrapped.
“After ‘Expats,’ I went and did a comedy as a result of I went loopy with my very own psychology. I used to be like, ‘That is unhealthy,’” Kidman mentioned. “And it’s one thing that I believe we have to speak about as actors — defending your physique so that you simply can dwell for so long as you might be given on this earth. As a result of it’s very powerful on the psyche.”
“Massive Little Lies” ranked #11 on IndieWire’s record of Nicole Kidman’s best performances of all time.