Vogue interviewed Nicole Kidman while she was in London shooting Practical Magic 2 at the end of the summer. She and Sandra Bullock scheduled shooting there in July and August so that they could have their children with them for summer vacation. She said they all had a great time: “Going to Hyde Park and concerts, Glastonbury and Salisbury — so much summer fun — Evita, seeing theater, walking Hampstead Heath, swimming there. Went to Portugal, went to Greece, had my nieces and nephews around, lots of family: my sister, my best friend since I was four, and her three children.”
Her next project, an adaptation of the forensic scientist Scarpetta from Patricia Cornwell’s novels, is being filmed in Nashville, where she and her daughters live, which will allow her to “almost have a normal job.” After co-producing Big Little Lies with Reese Witherspoon, Nicole committed to working with a woman director every 18 months. She said in recent years, she has worked with 20 female directors.
Her favorite characters to play were Satine in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! and Celeste in Big Little Lies. She said when she was filming Eyes Wide Shut, she asked director Stanley Kubrick, “Well, Stanley, what does this mean?” and he replied, “Don’t ever ask me that!”
She doesn’t mind being photographed bare-faced without makeup and likes her nose left red when she is crying in a scene. “I love the color of skin changing. I love flaws in the skin and I love real tears.” Although she admits that Sunday Rose’s new modeling career is “a bit frightening,” she also says, “I started working at 14, so I don’t really have a leg to stand on.” Her advice about haters, judgment, online excoriation: “Literally walk away from it. Because it will fell you. It will destroy you.”
Read the full interview here. Note: this Hollywood fashion episode had three different covers (Ayo Edebiri, Nicole Kidman, and Greta Lee).