Nicole Kidman is thankful to Jodie Foster for changing her in 2002’s “Panic Room” when she used to be “having a breakdown.”
“There’s this misconception that somehow female actresses are at each other, or they don’t like each other or whatever,” Foster, 61, instructed The Hollywood Reporter right through a roundtable dialogue with Kidman, Naomi Watts, Brie Larson, Jennifer Aniston, Anna Sawai and Sofía Vergara. “Like, Nicole, I took over a movie that you had to leave.”
Kidman replied: “Yes! And thank you. I was in a really bad way. I was like, ‘I’m having a breakdown.’ And Jodie took over, thank the Lord.”
The 2002 mystery adopted Foster and a tender Kristen Stewart, who performed her daughter, as they’re pressured to cover within the panic room in their Pristine York condo when intruders split in.
Kidman had began filming the film however bowed out next she sustained a significant knee trauma from 2001’s “Moulin Rouge” musical, in line with Leisure Weekly.
She didn’t elaborate within the Hollywood Reporter interview at the explanation why she felt she used to be having a “breakdown,” however it used to be round the similar era her marriage to first husband Tom Cruise led to 2001 next 11 years. She is now married to singer Keith City.
Previous this 12 months, she mentioned the toll her split-up took on her whilst her occupation collision pristine heights.
“I was struggling with things in my personal life, yet my professional life was going so well,” the 56-year-old instructed Dave Karger for his store “50 Oscar Nights,” which got here out in January. “That’s what happens, right?”
Kidman used to be explaining how she wasn’t ready to revel in her 2003 Oscar win for “The Hours,” in line with Family copy.
“So, I literally walked in [to the Vanity Fair party afterward], carried it around, was completely overwhelmed, emotional, shaking and I didn’t enjoy it,” Kidman recalled. “I was almost apologetic, which is so stupid. I wish I could have enjoyed it more.”
In 2022, Kidman instructed Number of “Panic Room,” “Jodie came in and was just brilliant.”
Kidman and Watts additionally mentioned their “40-year” friendship right through the dialogue, which the “Big Little Lies” actress famous “did not start in acting.”
“No, it started down at the pub,” Watts affirmative.
Kidman elaborated on how sure roles can also be tough for her emotionally, citing she as soon as threw a rock thru a window at her area next a tricky pace at the prepared of “Big Little Lies.”
“I threw a rock because [the door] was locked, and I couldn’t get in,” she defined. “I’d by no means achieved that during my hour. I clearly [had a lot] pent up. I needy the entire thing. It break the bank.
“And a lot of times, it’s six months of 12-, 14-hour days, and there really isn’t the time to go, ‘I need to take care of myself.’”
She stated she additionally needed to tackle a lighter function next taking at the grief-filled layout “Expats.”
“After ‘Expats,’ I went and did a comedy because I went crazy with my own psychology. I was like, ‘This is unhealthy,’” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “And it’s something that I think we need to talk about as actors — protecting your body so that you can live for as long as you are given on this earth. Because it’s very tough on the psyche.”