“I broke the car window with a stone.” Nicole Kidman talks about her psychological difficulties on the set of Big Little Lies.

On April 27, Nicole Kidman was in the center of the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Awards, receiving her Lifetime Achievement Award. But if the Australian, Oscar winner for the portrayal of Virginia Woolf the hours Undoubtedly a huge actress in 2002, all this is not without the occasional risk to her mental health. in the last episode of A roundtablehas published a series of interviews with actors and actresses The Hollywood ReporterNicole Kidman discusses the psychological challenge her role in the series presents Big Little Lies . In front of actresses Jodie Foster, Jennifer Aniston, Sofia Vergara, Brie Larson, Anna Savoy and Naomi Watts, she says she once “threw a rock” through the car window “because the door was locked and “He born could not to enter.” “I had never done that in my life,” he admits. I was obviously very tense. I broke everything.”

In Big Little LiesWinner of 4 Golden Globes in 2018, including Best Actress for Nicole Kidman, the Australian plays Celeste Wright, a woman whose family seems perfect a priori and yet suffers from domestic violence. A role that visibly took the form of a psychological challenge for the actress, who, despite this incident, which should have been alert, did not take her foot off the gas. “We act by saying that the show must go on, so you go on, you come, you do, you do, you do, you do and you do. “A lot of times it’s six months of 12- or 14-hour days, and you don’t have time to say, ‘I have to take care of myself,'” she explains.

“I did crazy things with my psychology”

Later though Big Little LiesNicole Kidman followed up with another dark role, Migrants. In this series released in 2024, she plays Margaret Wu, a New York architect who emigrated to Hong Kong with her husband and three children, whose life as a couple is turned upside down after the disappearance of her lover. “After Expats, I did comedy because I was playing crazy with my psychology,” he admits. I said to myself. “This is unhealthy.” For the actress, mental health is a topic that actors and actresses need to talk about. “Protect your body so that you can live as long as it is given to you on this earth. Because it’s very hard on the psyche,” he advises. And confronting Sofia Vergara, who agrees that “the body only knows what you’re going through [n’est pas réel]”, Nicole Kidman answers. “He doesn’t know that. But the idea is to be able to go for a massage or a hot bath or even a pat on the back, just to have someone touch you and say, “It’s going to be okay.”

And because he says it, he does it. Nicole Kidman is currently starring in the film family affair a romantic comedy in which she plays Brooke Harwood, a mother who falls in love with a famous actor much younger than her, played by Zac Efron. The series can be found on Netflix on June 28.