Nicole Kidman Revealed the Number One Advice She’s Carried Throughout Her Career & We’re Taking Notes
If you’ve been keeping up with all the new shows and movies this year, you might’ve noticed that Nicole Kidman is in a lot of them. From The Family Affair and The Perfect Couple on Netflix to the upcoming critically acclaimed release Babygirl, Kidman has had quite a crazy schedule.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair for their annual Hollywood Issue, the Oscar winner talked about her recent projects, and how she manages to not get too ahead of herself.
“I am very spontaneous and I have immediate yeses,” the Big Little Lies star admitted. “When [director Susanne Bier] called me, we didn’t have all the scripts for Perfect Couple, but I was like, ‘Yes.’ When [director Halina Reijn] reached out for Babygirl, I was already going, ‘Okay, just the title alone, I’m in.'”
“If I feel freedom and safe with a person, then I can just give them everything,” Kidman explained. “But I’ve got to feel arms around the project and me—that allows the expression. So much of what you’re offering is deeply personal. It needs to be held in that regard for it to really work.”
Most of all, it seems Kidman isn’t too tied down to what her next projects will look like and just takes things one at a time.
“I have been crazy in life, so whatever happens, it comes out in many different ways,” she said. “I feel things intensely. I read a lot. I’m raising a family. I’m a wife, I’m a sister. I’ve got all these friends. I’m moving through the journey of life.”
As a reminder, in addition to her daughters Sunday and Faith with her husband Keith Urban, Kidman also shares adopted children Bella and Connor with ex-husband Tom Cruise.
When speaking about her career choices, Kidman reiterated how important it’s been for her to stay in the moment.
“It can be really hard, especially if you’re very present and emotional and in it,” she said. “And then there’s an enormous amount of sheer joy.”
“That was one of the greatest pieces of advice I was ever given once: Don’t think ahead to something bad happening,” she remembered. “Stay in the moment when it’s good because you need to nourish during that time. You will have the fortitude to ride out when it’s not. If you’re already not allowing in the nourishment of the joy and the good times, that’s the wrong way to live.” We’re taking notes!
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