When Nicole Kidman was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, she spent a big portion of her speech thanking the administrators whom she’s labored with all through the years. The respect for the job, although, doesn’t she imply has any want to step behind the digicam herself.
“I really feel like I might be a horrible director as a result of I all the time have so many concepts. A director has to make decisions, and that’s not my sturdy swimsuit,” Kidman informed The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday night time on the AFI crimson carpet, noting {that a} producer’s duties rather more align together with her pursuits. “I’m excellent at being passionate and supporting the voices and studying a script and going ‘I like this script,’ or seeing anyone and going, ‘I like this actor, I like this director, how do I help them?’ They usually possibly have achieved nothing [before], however I need to get behind them. That’s what I like doing; it excites me, and it actually makes me joyful. I like shining the sunshine on different folks or serving to to try this.”
By way of her Blossom Movies, Kidman has produced initiatives together with Massive Little Lies, 9 Good Strangers, The Undoing, Love & Loss of life, Particular Ops: Lioness and Expats.
Contained in the tribute occasion, the star elaborated on that want to shine a lightweight on others, telling the gang contained in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood: “There’s so many extra thrilling younger administrators and voices which are fully unique and should be heard, and so they have rather a lot to say. We have to give them an opportunity to say it and to listen to them, and I’m right here, I’m able to roll up my sleeves. I’m right here all the time to help these voices.” Kidman additionally listed off the names of all of her earlier administrators and thanked them individually throughout her acceptance speech.
Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts, Zoe Saldaña, Aaron Sorkin, Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Joey King, Mike Myers and husband Keith City had been all readily available to honor Kidman on the occasion, as she weighed in on receiving a life achievement award at simply 56.
“After they informed me that Meryl acquired it at across the similar time I used to be like, ‘OK, that’s OK, that’s cool,’” Kidman informed THR. “However on the similar time you simply go, I’ll take no matter you give me as a result of by way of the work, I simply love doing the work.”