Kidman transforms into ‘real middleaged woman’ for new film
Actor Nicole Kidman has ditched her usual glamorous look, and she will be seen as the “real middle-aged woman” for her role in Destroyer.
The Oscar-winning actor, 51, appeared gaunt and weary in the first photograph from her upcoming film, which is being directed by Karyn Kusama, reports people.com. Kidman will play a Los Angeles Police Department police officer named Erin Bell. The story tells how Bell went undercover as a young woman with a criminal gang and still faces the traumatic events 20 years later.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Kusama said that she had a clear vision of how she wanted Kidman to look for the role.
Kusama said, “We always knew that what we wanted her to look like was a real middle-aged woman with a past that she wears on her face. With sun damage and sleep deprivation and stress and rage, just in her whole physical body.”
Of Kidman’s transformation, Kusama said the actor “hates being in the make-up chair”.