FANCY AND FREE

Quintessential film star Nicole Kidman talks to Christina Morales about the isolating fame of her Hollywood years, her latest West End role, and the freedom she has found in Nashville with husband Keith Urban and their daughters

Photography PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

“ FINELY POISED.” “Superb.” “Decisive.” “Commanding.” Those are the words British theatre critics are using to describe Nicole Kidman’s award-winning West End performance in the recent run of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51—but remove the context and they could easily be talking about the actress herself. I meet Kidman in London a week before the play is due to open and she’s terrified about her coming role. She has gone back to her roots, exercising a whole set of skills and muscles she’d forgotten she had. “When I said I’d do it, I actually didn’t realise how much fear I would have,” she says. “But I’m so glad I did, because it pushed me so far out of my comfort zone and made me find that place where there’s no…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2016

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