Nicole Kidman doesn’t take it along with her. The stress of the characters she’s performed. The panic, each delicate and wonderful. The screams. All of that goes into the waste bin following the martini shot, alongside along with her scripts apparently too. Ahead of her AFI Life Achievement Award gala, Kidman lately spoke with The Los Angeles Times and admitted to shredding all her scripts, together with for “Eyes Wide Shut”.
“Well, it feels like baggage,” stated Kidman. “It’s all just going to go sit in an attic or down in a basement. I’m a traveling actor and can live out of a suitcase. That’s how I approach life because I’ve always had to shove everything in a suitcase and move on.”
Impermanence appears to be a typical thread in most of the roles she’s performed all through her profession. Even her AMC ads intention 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 “Birth” director, Jonathan Glazer.
“Sometimes three or four pages of dialogue would turn up at her house at midnight to shoot the following day, completely different to the ones she’d prepared for,” he advised The Los Angeles Times. “She’d arrive in the morning, never late, knowing the new lines perfectly and without complaint.”
Commenting on the expertise, Kidman added, “With Jonathan, I’d get those pages late at night and it was glorious because the writing was so good. Great writing is easy to learn. That’s never a problem. When it’s not so good, then, that’s another 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 you simply go, ‘OK. Great. How do you see it this time?’
That composure and dedication to the craft is the sort of trademark Kidman has grow to be recognized for, nevertheless it comes from an extremely fragile place. In discussing her father’s demise and her perception within the afterlife, she stated, “I’m open to ideas and I change and shift and grow. There are times when I feel solid in my strength of who and where I am. And there are other times when I go, ‘Ooof, everything’s been removed and everything feels very tenuous and I’m not quite sure what’s what.’ And that has to do with having lost people very suddenly. I think that leaves you unsteady. As much as we’re all presenting ideas, none of us has the definitive power to know what’s going on.”
