ItEBN- Nicole Kidman, the 57-year-old international actress who has starred in a fair number of films, in different and distinctive roles, revealed in a recent interview that behind the intense impersonation required for some characters, there was great suffering and a psychological battle she was fighting, in order to be able to separate between the role she was embodying and her real personality.
She also pointed out that her last film, “Baby Girl,” drained her psychologically and almost harmed her mentally, because of her identification with the character and the many mixed emotions and feelings she was feeling.
“I give everything I have to every role I play, and I didn’t know that it was coming at the expense of my mental health,” she said. “My latest film took a huge toll on me, because it’s really hard to go through all these emotions. Sometimes the director would stop filming and hug me to give me energy to keep working.”
She then mentioned that she went through a similar emotional trauma while filming the series “Big Little Lies” and said: “It was very disturbing to me psychologically, because I couldn’t distinguish between what was real and what wasn’t real.”
“I am still learning not to sacrifice myself for art,” she concluded. “My self-esteem is a new journey I am on.”
Baby girl movie
The film is a romantic drama, which premiered on August 30, 2024, at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where Kidman won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
The film was also named one of the ten best films of 2024 by the National Board of Review, and Kidman also won the award for Best Actress.
had its North American premiere at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2024, and is scheduled to be released in the rest of the United States on December 25, 2024.
The film revolves around Romy, played by Kidman, an executive married to a theater director, who finds herself in a romantic relationship with a younger colleague at work, putting her career and family at risk.
The film stars Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor, Vaughan Riley, Jayte Jansen, Isabel Marr, Victor Slezak, Anoop Desai, Bartley Bose, and Maxwell Whittington Cooper.
