Nicole Kidman said Monday that she still tackles roles like a 21-year-old after the premiere of her shocking new horror movie at the Cannes film festival.
The Hollywood A-lister is the queen of Cannes this year with four different projects at the world’s top cinema showcase, including “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” where she plays a suburban mum who has to choose one of her children to sacrifice.
“I don’t have to work but I do because it is still my passion, the way in which I express myself,” the 49-year-old Oscar winner told reporters after the premiere of the creepy thriller.
“At this stage of my life I’m just trying to stay very bold and open and try things and support filmmakers that I believe in... I’m at that place in my life where I still try to act as though I’m 21 and starting my career.”
Kidman and Irish actor Colin Farrell play a couple of married doctors in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, who wowed Cannes two years ago with the dystopian love story “The Lobster.”
The new picture takes that movie’s laconic tone and twists into something much darker, after Farrell’s heart surgeon character operates on a man while he is drunk and kills him.
Years later, the dead man’s teenage son plots revenge, telling the surgeon he must choose a member of his family to kill or they will all suffer an excruciating death.
Kidman admitted the film was disturbing, after a few dozen queasy critics walked out of the screening when the blood began to flow. It drew a mix of boos and applause as the curtain fell but strong reviews from leading critics.

Source: Arab News