We’ve reached the top of one other week. However earlier than we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving credit score the place it’s due. Nicole Kidman is the most recent champion in our Winner of the Week collection.
“We come to this place for magic…”
If it felt like Nicole Kidman was type of all over the place final yr, that is as a result of she was. The Oscar winner has been engaged on twice as many tasks as her A-list friends for the previous few years, and for a superb cause (extra on that in a sec). However after the breakneck tempo of her output in 2024, she’s taking a step again. In fact, “taking a step again” for Kidman seems to be like doing a film and a TV present. She’s simply that productive.
At South x Southwest for the premiere of her new movie Holland (coming to Prime later this month), Kidman instructed The Hollywood Reporter that 2025 is “really not as loopy. I used to be way more on the market final yr; this yr I’ve Holland, I’ve [season two of] 9 Excellent Strangers, after which I’m off for the remainder of yr. So, oh nicely!” Evaluate that to all the pieces she was in over the course of 2024: Expats, A Household Affair, Babygirl, The Excellent Couple, Spellbound and Lioness.
There is a easy cause Kidman has been a workaholic of late: with Hollywood in, as an instance, a bizarre area recently, she’s one of many few stars whose identify can really get a mission green-lit.
“There are such a lot of alternatives by way of having the ability to be of service to the people who find themselves arising, and utilizing what I’ve and may do for individuals…I’m considering, ‘I can create extra work for individuals. I can create jobs for individuals.’ And likewise, I adore it. I’ve the fervour. I’ve simply bought to deal with my physique. I want I had superpowers as a result of I’d like to be all over the place,” she instructed Variety in October 2024.
Serving to individuals work is nice by itself, however look a bit nearer at Kidman’s filmography and you will see she’s not simply selecting tasks at random. Nicole Kidman is sort of single-handedly boosting the variety of tasks directed by girls in Hollywood.
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