Nicole Kidman Was Told ‘You Won’t Have a Career. You’re Too Tall’; Says One Audition Had Actors Being Measured at the Door: ‘I Was Mortified’

Is it time to officially anoint Nicole Kidman as the queen of prestige television officially? Because she’s exactly that, and kudos to her and her agents for reading the tea leaves on the shifting industry ages ago. After helping usher in the new era of prestige peak TV with “Big Little Lies,” and following that up with a lot of acclaimed TV work— “Top Of The Lake” for Jane Campion, HBO’s “The Undoing,” “Nine Perfect Strangers” for Hulu, Apple TV+’s “Roar,” “Special Ops: Lioness” for Paramount+, and currently on Prime Video, the series, “Expats” from director Lulu Wang— Kidman has yet another hot TV package in the works that sounds like it’ll be at the top of the most anticipated TV series of 2025.

Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the two-episode premiere of “Expats,” now streaming on Prime Video. Lulu Wang can’t escape Blondie’s “Heart of Glass.” At first, the acclaimed writer-director of “The Farewell” thought she was just hyper aware of the 1978 classic after she’d handpicked it to score the single moment of genuine happiness in the premiere episode of “Expats,” her new Prime Video limited series. The scene in question finds series stars Nicole Kidman and Sarayu Blue letting loose and dancing to the song during a late-night meal in a Hong Kong restaurant.

Nicole Kidman has always marched to the beat of her own drum. In her new cover shoot with Vogue Australia, the "Expats" actress poses in black lingerie, her shoulders adorned with a slithering black snake. "I like them," she says of the reptiles.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director How do you choose between Tom Cruise and Quentin Tarantino? It’s a dilemma Austin Butler faced before his Oscar-nominated performance in “Elvis” turned him into a global star. During an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast (via People) while promoting his new Apple TV+ series “Masters of the Air,” Butler confirmed reports he was in the running to star opposite Cruise in the blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick.” “I ended up having to choose between going to the screen test for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ or saying yes to Quentin Tarantino,” Butler said.

Having already worked with compatriots Baz Luhrmann, James Wan, Kim Farrant, Phillip Noyce, and John Polson (who is directing her in the upcoming “The Last Anniversary” from author Liane Moriarty), Nicole Kidman generally finds a way to work with every notable Aussie filmmaker she can. And now she can add one more to the list: Justin Kurzel, the celebrated indie filmmaker known for “Macbeth,” “Assassin’s Creed,” and “True History of The Kelly Gang,” starring Aussie Russell Crowe.

Nicole Kidman is talking Big Little Lies!

with multiple hidden details. wore the sexy style to the New York premiere of Expats, her upcoming Amazon series. Her black gown features a structured bodice literally strapped onto her chest by mere ribbon, and a kind of half-skirt that wraps around the back to leave a hip-high slit.

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Nine Perfect Strangers and The Undoing — Blossom Films and Made Up Stories – have put together another solid film that Nicole Kidman will star in for director Justin Kurzel.

Expats.”Kidman said she and “Big Little Lies” co-star Reese Witherspoon are “texting every day . . .

“The Farewell”), and is based on the novel, “The Expatriates” by Janice Y.K. Lee. The series follows wealthy Margaret (Kidman, 56) and her husband Clarke (Tee), who are Americans living in Hong Kong in 2014, trying to raise their kids and get on with life after tragically losing a child.

Elizabeth Taylor “Big Little Lies” Season 3 is coming along nicely. “We’re at work on it,” Nicole Kidman told Variety Sunday night at the New York premiere of her new series “Expats.” Kidman says she and Reese Witherspoon are “texting every day” about the third season. “And there’s a timeline and we’re doing it.” She laughed when asked for more details.

Nicole Kidman is stunning at the premiere of Prime Video’s Expats!

Zack Sharf Digital News Director One of the most anticipated documentary premieres at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival is “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” which tracks the eponymous star’s rise to Hollywood icon and the near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Reeve’s children — Will, Matthew and Alexandra — appear as subjects in the movie and joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible to discuss their father’s legacy. Alexandra called the documentary a “beautiful gift” because it’s rare to “see your parent’s life told in its totality…to see a life well lived on screen and in its full complexity.

Nicole Kidman has revealed that she felt unable to film one particular scene in her forthcoming Amazon Video drama set in the expatriate world of Hong Kong.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jodie Foster said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible while at the Sundance Film Festival that the $1.4 billion success of “Barbie” helps prove that Hollywood no longer views women directors as too much of a risk. That wasn’t always the case, as Foster often saw women filmmakers being marginalized during her career ascent in Hollywood. “I’ve had the beauty of being able to be in the business since the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and so on,” Foster said to Variety’s Rebecca Rubin.

Nicole Kidman opened up about a major concern at the start of her acting career.

Nicole Kidman has revealed the fib she used to tell to secure auditions in her early career.The Big Little Lies star recently told The Radio Times Podcast that she used to lie about her height in order to make it through to auditions, after she was told she wouldn’t make it as an actor on account of being “too tall”.Kidman is five foot 11 inches, but used to pretend she was five foot ten and a half inches, to try and improve her chances of succeeding in an acting career.“I was told, ‘You won’t have a career. You’re too tall’,” shared the Australian actor.“People would say, ‘How’s the air up there?’ Now I get, ‘You’re so much taller than I thought’, or men grappling with how high my heels should be,” she continued.Speaking on red carpet fashion, she said: “Whenever I go on the red carpet, I get sent shoes that are always so high.

on her BBC podcast “Rule Breakers.” “I thought, I will do. Come hell or high water, I will work on screen,” she told Visage, 55, who had asked Waddingham what was the biggest rule she had ever broken. The British actress said the harsh words “gave me a complex for years.” According to Waddingham, who won an Emmy award for her role as Richmond FC owner Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ series in 2021, she used her teacher’s words as an influence in her acceptance speech.

Radio Times Podcast. “People would say, ‘How’s the air up there?’”“I was told, ‘You won’t have a career.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. has long defended his role in “Tropic Thunder,” the 2008 comedy from director Ben Stiller that cast the “Iron Man” star as an egotistical Australian thespian who takes Method acting to an extreme by undergoing “pigmentation alteration” surgery to darken his skin in order to play a Black solider in a war movie.