Nicole Kidman reveals which famous film role she almost quit
The role in question went on to win the actor her first Oscar
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Your support makes all the difference.Nicole Kidman has opened up about her career during a Bafta lecture in London.
The Australian actor was in the UK's capital for the Life in Pictures event which saw her discuss her career as well as gender imbalance in the industry and the impact of HBO series Big Little Lies which she stars in alongside Reese Witherspoon.
During the talk, Kidman revealed she almost dropped out of playing one of her most high-profile roles: Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry drama The Hours (2002).
“It was interesting because I got very, very scared and tried to pull out of it because I was going through things in my own life," she said. "I just felt ‘I’m completely overwhelmed and is there any way you can cast somebody else?’ To which they said ‘no, get on the plane. Get here'. And then I just got so immersed in her. I started to — she just came into me, I don’t know any other way to explain it.”
Kidman went on to win Best Actress for the role at the 2003 Academy Awards
, who will next be seen in DC film Aqauman, said that she's considered quitting acting multiple times, but described the profession as “this slow thing that pulls me back and I love it.”
Speaking about Hollywood's gender imbalance, she said: “I made a pledge a couple of years ago to work with a female director every eighteen months because you’ve got to act to change the statistics; I have to do something. We can talk about it and we can all talk about it or I can actually just get out there and do it.
Kidman is being touted for awards consideration thanks to her forthcoming role in Karyn Kusama film Destroyer. In it, she plays a police detective who attempts to make peace with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past.
In 2019, Kidman will return for a second season of Big Little Lies, this time alongside Witherspoon and Meryl Streep.
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