It’s been a door opener: Nicole Kidman on life coming ‘full circle’ with ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’

By PTI

NEW DELHI: As somebody who began her performing profession with the miniseries format, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman says she is amazed to see her profession do a full-circle due to the recognition of her current restricted exhibits equivalent to “Big Little Lies”, “The Undoing” and now “Nine Perfect Strangers”.

The Oscar winner says it has been thrilling to work on the small display screen which has allowed her extra display screen time to discover her characters.

“I’m amazed as a result of, unusually sufficient, I began off in Australia, doing a few movies however then I did a factor, which was very well-known on the time as miniseries.

One of them was known as ‘Vietnam’ and the opposite one was known as ‘The Bangkok Hilton’.

“So to have come full circle…And now we are doing an enormous amount of work in limited series. This is fascinating to me. It is a fascinating medium to work as an actor because you get so much more screen time to explore a character,” Kidman mentioned in response to a query from PTI throughout a roundtable with worldwide journalists.

One of probably the most well-known faces in Hollywood motion pictures, Kidman has been part of a few of the hottest in addition to critically-acclaimed movies equivalent to “The Hours”, “Eyes Wide Shut”, “Moulin Rouge!”, “Dogville”, “Cold Mountain”, “Bewitched”, “Lion”, “Beguiled”, “Aquaman” and “Bombshell”.

But lately, the 54-year-old Australian actor has wowed her followers along with her turns as Celeste Wright, a retired lawyer and mom whose seemingly picture-perfect life slowly unravels in “Big Little Lies”.

She adopted it up with an equally spectacular flip in “The Undoing” as Grace Fraser, a extremely profitable psychologist caught in her husband’s internet of lies.

Kidman mentioned the success of the format has been a “door opener” for her.

“Right now as we know, there just isn’t the voracious appetite for film as there is for television. So to have that opportunity to work on even though it’s the smaller screen but still bring that cinematic language, and hopefully storytelling to the smaller screen, that’s exciting. And it’s been a door opener for me, actually,” she mentioned.

Kidman govt produced “Big Little Lies” and “The Undoing”, each HBO exhibits, the place she collaborated with creator David E Kelley.

Her upcoming present “Nine Perfect Strangers” reunites Kidman, Kelley and “Big Little Lies” novelist Liane Moriarty.

The eight-part collection, which can completely premiere on Amazon Prime Video on August 20 worldwide apart from the US and China, has a stellar ensemble forged in Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Boone, Bobby Cannavale, Luke Evans, Michael Shannon, Regina Hall, Manny Jacinto, Melvin Gregg, Samara Weaving and Asher Keddie.

Kidman performs the mysterious director of a boutique well being and wellness resort that guarantees therapeutic and transformation and hosts 9 careworn metropolis dwellers making an attempt to get on a path to a greater way of life.

The actor mentioned the present gave her the prospect to discover a few of the massive philosophical and existential questions as these characters search reinvention and therapeutic.

“…those things are really interesting to me. And when you see all eight episodes, I think they’re quite deep philosophical questions, which I know David E Kelly is very interested in,” she added.