Saturday’s AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards marked the primary ever public Kidman-City household outing, with the couple’s two teenage daughters making their purple carpet debut.
“There’s an infinite quantity of luck in my life, however there’s additionally a very powerful factor — love, massive, massive love,” Kidman mentioned from the stage contained in the occasion, the place she accepted the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Gesturing to City and their kids, she informed the group, “Proper there may be the love of my life and the loves of my life. My daughters have by no means been wherever publicly with me on a purple carpet, tonight was their first evening, so that they’re right here, Sunday and Religion.”
Sunday, 15, and Religion, 13, joined their mom and father alongside a number of of their cousins and and Kidman’s sister on the occasion’s household desk.
“That is all due to you and I really like you a lot,” Kidman mentioned, additionally shouting out her mom watching from residence. “There’s no place like residence, as they are saying, click on click on. You’re my residence.”
Meryl Streep introduced the achievement award to Kidman, telling the group about working along with her good friend on Large Little Lies: “That’s the time once I actually got here inside respiration distance of the formidable presents Nicole has, and her course of and her seismic financial institution of emotion she’s bought locked up inside there and her stamina and her drive to be an artist and her self-discipline.”
Onstage, Kidman returned the praise, saying “Meryl Streep, I simply love you, I’ve at all times beloved you; I don’t know what it’s however you’re a beacon of excellence and heat and generosity however you’ve been my guiding gentle, so to obtain this from you, you don’t have any thought. My husband will attest, my mother and father will attest, it’s at all times been you, and nobody can contact you.”