When Nicole Kidman was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, she spent a big portion of her speech thanking the administrators whom she’s labored with all through the years. The respect for the job, although, doesn’t she imply has any want to step behind the digital camera herself.
“I really feel like I might be a horrible director as a result of I at all times have so many concepts. A director has to make selections, and that’s not my sturdy swimsuit,” Kidman advised The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday evening on the AFI pink carpet, noting {that a} producer’s duties way more align along with her pursuits. “I’m excellent at being passionate and supporting the voices and studying a script and going ‘I like this script,’ or seeing someone and going, ‘I like this actor, I like this director, how do I help them?’ And so they possibly have completed nothing [before], however I need to get behind them. That’s what I like doing; it excites me, and it actually makes me completely satisfied. I like shining the sunshine on different individuals or serving to to try this.”
Through her Blossom Movies, Kidman has produced tasks together with Large Little Lies, 9 Good Strangers, The Undoing, Love & Loss of life, Particular Ops: Lioness and Expats.
Contained in the tribute occasion, the star elaborated on that want to shine a light-weight on others, telling the group contained in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood: “There’s so many extra thrilling younger administrators and voices which might be fully authentic and should be heard, they usually have quite a bit to say. We have to give them an opportunity to say it and to listen to them, and I’m right here, I’m able to roll up my sleeves. I’m right here at all times to help these voices.” Kidman additionally listed off the names of all of her earlier administrators and thanked them individually throughout her acceptance speech.
Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts, Zoe Saldaña, Aaron Sorkin, Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Joey King, Mike Myers and husband Keith City have been all readily available to honor Kidman on the occasion, as she weighed in on receiving a life achievement award at simply 56.
“Once they advised me that Meryl received it at across the identical time I used to be like, ‘OK, that’s OK, that’s cool,’” Kidman advised THR. “However on the identical time you simply go, I’ll take no matter you give me as a result of when it comes to the work, I simply love doing the work.”