Nicole Kidman doesn’t take it along with her. The stress of the characters she’s performed. The panic, each delicate and superb. The screams. All of that goes into the waste bin following the martini shot, alongside along with her scripts apparently too. Forward of her AFI Life Achievement Award gala, Kidman just lately spoke with The Los Angeles Occasions and admitted to shredding all her scripts, together with for “Eyes Broad Shut”.
“Nicely, it appears like baggage,” mentioned Kidman. “It’s all simply going to go sit in an attic or down in a basement. I’m a touring actor and might stay out of a suitcase. That’s how I strategy life as a result of I’ve all the time needed to shove every thing in a suitcase and transfer on.”
Impermanence appears to be a standard thread in lots of the roles she’s performed all through her profession. Even her AMC adverts purpose to seize the essence of the theatrical expertise and its momentary splendor. Being within the second is a part of Kidman’s magic and nobody is aware of this greater than her “Delivery” director, Jonathan Glazer.
“Typically three or 4 pages of dialogue would flip up at her home at midnight to shoot the next day, utterly completely different to those she’d ready for,” he advised The Los Angeles Occasions. “She’d arrive within the morning, by no means late, realizing the brand new traces completely and with out grievance.”
Commenting on the expertise, Kidman added, “With Jonathan, I’d get these pages late at evening and it was superb as a result of the writing was so good. Nice writing is straightforward to be taught. That’s by no means an issue. When it’s not so good, then, that’s one other story.”
Kubrick’s course of, not-so-surprisingly, required much more flexibility with Kidman saying, “Stanley would rewrite scenes that we’d spent six weeks capturing. And also you simply go, ‘OK. Nice. How do you see it this time?’
That composure and dedication to the craft is the form of trademark Kidman has change into identified for, nevertheless it comes from an extremely fragile place. In discussing her father’s loss of life and her perception within the afterlife, she mentioned, “I’m open to concepts and I modify and shift and develop. There are occasions once I really feel strong in my energy of who and the place I’m. And there are different occasions once I go, ‘Ooof, every thing’s been eliminated and every thing feels very tenuous and I’m not fairly positive what’s what.’ And that has to do with having misplaced folks very all of the sudden. I believe that leaves you unsteady. As a lot as we’re all presenting concepts, none of us has the definitive energy to know what’s happening.”