In 1996, Nicole Kidman turns for the director Jane Campion. Wednesday, March 8, 2023, until diffuse portrait of a woman from 8:55 p.m., an important film in the career of the actress. At the time aged 28, the former companion of Tom Cruise embarks on a rewarding and devastating adventure. From the start, she reveals that getting the role was no small feat. Duringan interview given to journalist Bobbie Wygant on July 12, 1996, the actress admits to having loved the eponymous novel by Henry James and the character of Isabel Archer that she dreamed of playing on screen. Although she felt privileged to work with Jane Campion on this project, she had to submit to a two-day audition, then a week of waiting before finding out if she had the role. Upon hearing the good news, she broke down in tears. The filming began with a rather negative feeling on the part of Nicole Kidman, before gradually giving her a confidence in herself that she desperately needed at the time.
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A premonition by Nicole Kidman
Nearby Los Angeles Times, on October 1, 1995, the actress confided on the set of this film which was so close to her heart. His family had settled in London for the filming needs of both Mission Impossible and the first part of portrait of a woman. The other part of the film was to be shot in Italy, another destination to take their two children. “I will probably be plunged into a deep depression after this film”, had then declared the actress to our American colleagues. A strangely premonitory statement… This feature film, “hard and difficult”, combined with the gray weather of the English capital will indeed be right for the morale of the actress. According IMDBshe will remain bedridden for two weeks at the end of filming to recover from a deep state of “emotional stress”. This will not be the last time that Nicole Kidman will experience psychological hell by interpreting a complex character in the cinema.
“Depression can manifest itself at different times”
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After this experience, Nicole Kidman is cast to play the main roles in The Sorceress, Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick and red Mill by Baz Luhrmann. But it’s in 2002 that she knows the consecration when she agrees to lend her features to a tortured Virginia Woolf In The Hours. For this interpretation, the actress will be rewarded with the only Oscar of her career in the Best Actress category. But playing that role had consequences just as disastrous as that of Isabel Archer. In the show This Cultural Life on BBC Radio 4 in 2021, Nicole Kidman reveals that this role came just after her divorce from Tom Cruise. Her mental health was considerably altered by this separation and she consequently let herself be sucked into her character.itself in the grip of darkness. “I think I was depressed myself, outside of my own body. The idea that Virginia Woolf was reliving through me was the door open to this drift”, she explains. If she did not wish to go into the details of this depressive episode, she admits having lost herself in the game, sometimes forgetting certain dangers by dint of replaying the suicide scene again, again and again. “Depression can show up at different times. I was ready to accept it, which I think is probably the beauty of acting.”she concluded.
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