Nicole Kidman has acquired numerous accolades in her decades-long profession, because of her chameleon-like talents on-screen. (Who can neglect that prosthetic nostril in The Hours?) Off-screen, although, she solely needs to feel and appear like herself.
“I’ve bought to have the ability to stroll a purple carpet and really feel comfy,” she says, “really feel like myself and really feel very free. If I really feel too confined, that received’t be good for anybody. That skill to be at liberty and regular in these actually excessive conditions, I’m wired for that now.”
It seems that sense of freedom will not be innate. It’s one thing that has include age to Kidman, who’s 59. “I began modeling at 14 and 15, and I began performing on the similar time. I wished to be an actress, however I used to be utilizing the modeling to become profitable in order that I may fund my performing,” she says. “Individuals used to at all times say to me, ‘Once you develop up, you’re gonna be so fairly. I used to be like, ‘Huh?’” The backhanded compliments did their harm. “I’d look within the mirror and I’d go, What does that imply? I wanna be fairly now. However I suppose I used to be a gawky sort of teenager.” Kidman, 5’10 even then, towered over her friends—“I used to be all legs and arms, and I didn’t have management over my physique, in a means’” she says—and lamented not having pin-straight, blonde hair.
These early assessments to her confidence didn’t hamper her performing profession; if something they could have fueled it via an astonishing collection of memorable roles. In 2026, she’s had one other busy yr (the brand new season of Lioness debuted this month, and the sequel to cult basic Sensible Magic is slated for launch in September). She additionally fronts a video collection, The Many Sides of Radiance, a marketing campaign for Clé de Peau Beauté, unveiled Monday, for which she has served as a spokesperson since final yr. That collection focuses on her performing work, her work as a producer, and her advocacy for fellow girls movie administrators and actors.
Nicole Kidman in Clé de Peau Beauté’s “The Many Sides of Radiance” marketing campaign.Courtesy of Clé de Peau Beauté
It’s what Kidman calls “the various sides of myself.” In pursuit of these totally different sides, she’s not a stranger to journey, having performed an Attract cowl interview final yr in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. For her work on digital camera, she says, “I really like the thought of making a personality. That’s what make-up costumes, hair, all of it—even altering the way in which you progress, does.” These are nuances she’s at all times been delicate to. Previous to technicolor, she notes that motion coaches had been de rigueur, and he or she’s enthused by their return. “They’re actually using how one can turn out to be totally different characters,” she says, “I’ve zero curiosity in taking part in myself on display.”
