Nicole Kidman is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. The Australian actress has been immersed in the world of acting for more than four decades, and although she can boast of having an impeccable career full of great titles both on the small screen and in film, her beginnings were more complicated than we might think. .
The performer has started the year promoting her new series, Expats, which will arrive on Prime Video on January 26. On the occasion of the imminent premiere of the fiction, the 56-year-old actress went to the Radio Times podcast to promote the launch of the project, but she also took advantage of her visit to open up about her beginnings in the world of cinema.
During the interview, Nicole Kidman acknowledged that her beginnings were not easy at all, as she received many negative comments about her physical appearance and even heard that she would never have a place in the film industry. ”They told me: ‘You won’t have a career. “You’re too tall,” she said. And the Australian actress was already 1.75 m tall when she was only 13 years old.
After constantly hearing this series of comments about her height, the Big Little Lies performer decided that the best thing she could do was lie about her measurements in the different auditions she did. ”I say she’s 1.79m tall, but I’m actually 1.80m tall,” she explained. ”People told me, ‘How’s the air up there?’ Now they tell me, ‘you’re taller than I thought,’ she declared.
And although she does not give importance to these types of comments now, the Moulin Rouge interpreter claimed that sometimes she had wished she were smaller. ”But there are times when I appreciate it and I can use my height in my work,” she asserted.
Furthermore, the actress confessed that those insecurities had become her greatest strength and that she felt very grateful “for being healthy and being able to walk.” “I have had problems with my knees and all kinds of things, partly due to my height. But what I tell my daughters is that none of that matters. What matters is how you allow other people to tell you ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ and whether you accept it. Inner resilience as a human being is the real superpower,” he said.
