February 7, 2017 – Hollywood, California, U.S. – NICOLE KIDMAN promotes television series ‘Big Little Lies.’ Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born June 20 1967 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is an Australian actress and film producer. Kidman’s breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm and television thriller miniseries Bangkok Hilton. Appearing in several films in the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in the stock-car racing film Days of Thunder (1990), the romance-drama Far and Away (1992), and the hero film Batman Forever (1995). Other successful films followed in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) earned her a second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical and her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kidman’s performance as Virginia Woolf in the drama film The Hours (2002) received critical acclaim and earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival. Upcoming releases: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Beguiled (2017), Big Little Lies (TV Series 2017), How to Talk to Girls at Parties 2017), Top of the Lake (TV Series 2017), Lion (2016). (Credit Image: © Armando Gallo via ZUMA Studio)
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On Music: Nicole Kidman, Getting Into a Trance

February 9, 2017
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Armando Gallo

Nicole Kidman co-stars and co-produced with Reese Witherspoon the new upcoming miniseries Big Little Lies, created by David E. Kelley and based on the book of the same name by Liane Moriarty. The seven episodes – infused with music, from 1960s vintage to Michael Kiwanuka -were directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, who played music all the time on the set. We asked Nicole if music is important in relation to her acting.

“Music can bring me into an emotional memory like that.  I love using music, it’s something that speaks to me viscerally, immediately. Jean-Marc actually plays music on the set.  And Garth Davis on Lion would play music on the set to set the tone. I love when a director does that because, as anyone who loves music knows, you can be transported 20 years back. Or suddenly there is this classical piece being played and it just lifts you up and almost puts you in a trance. There are so many different ways to use music to create a performance.  But I am also lucky because I am married to a musician so we have music in our house pretty much all the time.  It’s weaved into my life now.  And my little one plays guitar, and my eight- year-old can play Adele’s “Hello” and “When I Was Seven Years Old”.  So music is a beautiful form of expression.”