Nicole Kidman compares acting to being a snake

Nicole Kidman compares acting to being a snake. Nicole Kidman believes that taking on different acting roles is similar to the life of a snake.

By Megan Sauer

The ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ actress, 56, who has played a number of ultra-stressed women on screen, including tortured writer Virginia Woolf, added that she is fascinated by crawling reptiles because of the way they move. and they constantly shed their skin.

This is what he told Vogue Australia in a cover interview in which he posed with a black snake coiled around his neck:

“I like them… I think it has something to do with the same way I skydive or scuba dive. I think they are very beautiful.”

Nicole, a mother of four, added that she finds snakes ‘attractive’ and is obsessed with the way they ‘slide and move’ and the notion of shedding their skin.

The actress continued:

“You can convert and try different things, all the time, which is what excites me.”

When asked if she felt like she was still reinventing herself at this stage in her 40-year acting career:

“’I don’t even see it as a reinvention. I think it’s more of different facets that you discover exist, but you are in tune with their discovery. Yes, I’m still very open and I’m still very passionate about what I do and I’m curious.

And those elements have not been affected. You can become more rigid as you get older, but you can also become freer.”

Born in Hawaii but raised on the north shore of Sydney, Australia, Nicole said her obsession with snakes is probably also related to the deadly wildlife that abounds in her homeland.

Nicole, who adopted Bella, 31, and Connor, 29, with ex-husband Tom Cruise, 61, and has Sunday Rose, 15, and Faith Margaret, 13, with her musician husband for 18-year-old Keith Urban, 56, added:

‘We are used to it. You dive into the pool and we say: -Be careful with the funnel-shaped nets that can form a bubble at the bottom of the pool.

With children, you say: -Eyes wide open, eyes wide open!- When you walk barefoot on the rocks: -Blue-ringed octopuses, be careful, in the little cracks!-

‘But that doesn’t stop you from walking on rocks. That doesn’t stop you from exploring… which I suppose is largely a metaphor for the Australian spirit. They can’t stop us.

There was also always that search for dangerous things. Because of the drama it entails.