Nicole Kidman’s message to Singapore: If you have any good stories, send them my way
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Nicole Kidman'south message to Singapore: If yous take any skilful stories, send them my way
The Oscar-winning actress puts on her executive producer hat once again as she takes over the small screen in HBO's new psychological miniseries The Undoing.
Nicole Kidman stars in HBO's The Undoing (Photo: HBO Asia)
There is something about Nicole Kidman that is very compelling to watch, even when she'south treading somewhat familiar territory and fabric.
As New York upper crust therapist Grace – happily married to Hugh Grant's successful and charming oncologist Jonathan until a shocking plough of events shatters her seemingly perfect life – the 53-year-old extra does what she does best in her new HBO show The Undoing: Play a adult female with hidden layers and complicated depths.
"I was just incredibly grateful to have such a great role," Kidman told CNA Lifestyle in an sectional interview to promote the new miniseries.
"And to be working with Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland! And to be directed by (Oscar winner) Susanne Bier! And so that was just remarkable that we got to make this and I was just grateful to be able to do information technology."
Indeed, The Undoing is as A-list star-powered prestige television equally information technology comes.
Based on the 2022 novel You lot Should Have Known past writer Jean Hanff Korelitz, HBO's latest twisty drama reunites Kidman with Large Little Lies' David E Kelley, who once again dons the same evidence creator-writer hat.
Helming the half-dozen-episode miniseries is Susanne Bier, best known for the Tv set miniseries The Night Manager and feature films Brothers, Bird Box, and her Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language film In A Better World.
Not content with merely acting alongside co-stars Grant and Sutherland, Kidman also serves as the series' executive producer. It is the creative role – bated from existence an award-winning actress – that she clearly relishes. I that she uses unabashedly to champion women and trivial-known talents in the industry.
"I would honey to come and film in Singapore!" she said when we tell her almost the potential talent in the island-metropolis.
"We have a number of shows in our visitor (Blossom Films) that we're developing. We're actually developing something that we'll be shooting in Hong Kong called Expatriates, so you know, I'm always looking for good stories."
"And then if you accept them, send them my fashion!" she added.
Indeed, there is an affinity with Singapore. Kidman's younger sister Antonia lived in the land for a decade with her husband and children, earlier relocating back to Sydney tardily terminal yr.
"I love it at that place! I've been a number of times and then I would dearest to come up dorsum," said Kidman.
The Undoing has been lauded by critics for both Kidman and Grant'due south performances, which allow for involving storytelling that's hard to tear yourself away from.
With recent intricate roles such every bit her All-time Extra Emmy-winning turn equally domestic corruption victim Celeste in Big Little Lies and now The Undoing's Grace, does Kidman very specifically get for such polygonal characters at this point in her career?
"I wait to work with directors that I really feel are going to be strong and compelling," explained Kidman.
"And I look for slap-up stories. This, to me, was a great story… information technology was well-nigh a woman in a relationship, not merely with her husband, but her son and her begetter. And all the different facets of that, while her whole life is falling apart. Her husband has what she thinks is a secret life, her whole life falls autonomously, then it takes you on this roller coaster thriller ride when zip is what it seems"
Then was there anything she learned about herself afterwards what she says was an emotionally draining role?
"I don't know how much yous acquire almost yourself," she confessed with a laugh.
"(What) I realised was, my gosh, I can actually work – doing half dozen hours of television, carrying the thing myself and still make information technology to the finish line."
For Kidman, who said at a TCA Panel for The Undoing earlier this year that "choosing to unknow things things is a fascinating part of human nature", she is "not quite certain" what she would similar to unknow given the current climate of the world.
"I do sometimes walk effectually sort of (with) my head in the clouds, considering information technology makes it easier," she admitted, calculation that she is in the middle of shooting another show right now. "I'm extremely focused right now considering nosotros're trying to shoot during the pandemic."
Merely she is "really happy" that the Undoing is coming out to the earth right now.
"I mean, it's a Hitchcockian thriller" she said with a smile. "And hopefully people volition want to tune in because they want to lookout man something that takes them on a thrilling ride."
The make-new limited HBO Original series, The Undoing is bachelor on meWatch, HBO GO and HBO. New episodes premiere every Monday at 10am with a same day encore at 10pm.
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