Nicole Kidman Says She Got ‘Brusses’ On Her Body From Big Little Lies

Nicole Kidman he gets so deep into the characters that he plays, that he has scars that show it.

“Sometimes I find that it’s really taxing when you go through all those emotions that are so intense and so deep that your life, in fact, you get, kind of – your mind doesn’t have it. [know that it’s fake],” Kidman, 57, shared Variety “Actors to Players” interview no Zendaya on Friday, December 13. “You’re actually dealing with it, and you have to have ways to get rid of it.”

The Oscar winner recalled how to film the HBO series Big Little Lies — which ran for two seasons from 2017 to 2019, with its third season running now — hit him hard. “That disturbed my body and my mind because I could not tell what was real and what was not,” he explained. “So, it was like, ‘Oof. This is hard.’” (Kidman plays Celeste in the series, who is abused by her husband, Perry, played by Alexander Skarsgård.)

He continued: “I would have bruises all over my back, body and legs.” And so, I’ll be seeing it and my mind is saying, ‘Well, hang on. He’s injured.’ So, I do, kind of these things that cleanse my chakras and I pray and I do all this, you know, and I get the genius out. Honestly, I say, ‘I’ll take anything. Just get me in here so I can go into the next place free and unscarred or bruised or bruised,’ which sounds like I have bats—I’m crazy, but I’m not.”

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Kidman went through a similar, and “extremely intense” situation filming her latest film, Baby girl. The film, which opens in theaters later this month, stars Kidman as a CEO who puts his family and work life at risk by starting a relationship with a young student, played by. Harris Dickinson.

“There were parts of Baby girl what is not in the film now but the focus is that we captured that kind of, yes, after a while, it was worrying,” he said. “But it also disturbed me emotionally, that’s how I put it.”

Learning to take care of herself while giving her all to play is something Kidman says she’s “not good at.” He added: “I’m still learning not to sacrifice my body and myself for one thing, for the sake of art, because part of me almost wants to do that.” And two, you just have to appreciate who I am. So, it’s a journey.”

While we were talking Baby girl in the October discussion no VarietyKidman admitted that getting “everything” was difficult to film. “Because of the nature of that film, it’s going to be vulnerable and exposed, or you’re going to be protected, and the thing is not connected,” he said at the time. “When I met him [director] Halina [Reijn]and we talked about it, I was like, ‘Give us a safe place,’ and I said, ‘Please don’t make me look like a fool.'”

Despite experiencing physical and mental strain during production, Kidman made the call Baby girl “a very liberating film” in conversation with it The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “There have been people who say it’s the most disturbing movie they’ve ever seen, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry,'” she said.

Kidman noted that she is also excited to bring a new kind of female-centric story to the big screen. “Many times women are abandoned at some point in their career as sexual beings. So it was really good to be seen in this way,” he explained. “From the minute I read it, I said, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I’ve never seen, this is a place I’ve never been, I don’t think there was an audience.’ My character has reached a stage where he still has all these powers, but he doesn’t really know who he is, what he wants, what he desires, even though he seems to have everything. And I think that’s really related. “

Baby girl hits theaters on Wednesday, December 25.