Nicole Kidman is ‘astounded’ by the ‘harsh way women are judged’ in films.
The 51-year-old actress plays Erin Bell – a police detective who is drawn back into an old case that left her traumatised – in Destroyer and says the action movie offers a ‘gritty and raw and totally authentic’ look at her character who doesn’t adhere to traditional beauty ideals.
‘A lot of times if you are going to be a female in an action film, they want you to look gorgeous, be bad-a**, be capable of firing guns and doing high kicks and still having lipstick and being svelte and being in a whole different class of action hero,’ she told The Guardian.
Hot stuff: Nicole Kidman is ‘astounded’ by the ‘harsh way women are judged’ in films. Seen in The Paperboy in 2012
Grungy: The 51-year-old actress plays Erin Bell – a police detective who is drawn back into an old case that left her traumatised – in Destroyer and says the action movie offers a ‘gritty and raw and totally authentic’ look at her character who doesn’t adhere to traditional beauty ideals
‘This is gritty and raw and totally authentic. It’s very different to give screen time – and this amount of screen time – to a woman who looks like this, who behaves like this, who is riddled with shame and anger and fury and rage, yet is also a mother and not a good mother.
‘I’m always astounded at the harsh way in which women are judged, and I shouldn’t be,’ added the wife of Keith Urban who are raising two daughters together.
‘I should know that by now, but it is what it is.’
A classic beauty: The blonde speaks onstage during the Big Little Lies panel of the HBO portion of the 2019 Winter TCA in February in Pasadena, California
The star has been the sexy action woman in sexy films – Dead Calm, Batman Forever, The Peacmaker,
The actress went on to explain she hopes to help change things.
She added: ‘Maybe in 20 years time, for the next generation of women, it will be different but by god, I want to be one of those women who’s helping carve a path for the next generation.
A sexy action star: She had several scenes filled with terror int he 2008 film Australia
A perfect example: The siren had to look stunning when running from explosions opposite George Clooney in 1997’s The Peacemaker
‘I’m the recipient of those that have come before me to even be in this position.’
This comes after her daughter Isabella Cruise has thanked her Hollywood star dad Tom Cruise for helping her through her Church of Scientology training.
The 26 year old – who is the adopted child of high ranking Scientology member Tom and his ex-wife Kidman – has spoken out about how her training to become an auditor within the London branch of the unconventional religion was ‘exactly what she needed’ and is the ‘missing piece’ in her life.
A different vibe for her: Here the Oscar winner is seen in How to Talk to Girls at Parties from 2017
An auditor is extensively trained member of the sci-fi cult who helps other members through intense self-examination sessions using an electronic device called the E-meter and encourages those being audited to share traumatic experiences either in this life or past incarnations.
In a lengthy letter posted to Tony Ortega’s blog The Underground Bunker, she writes of her training: ‘It turned out it was exactly what I needed.
‘I dragged out the testing and correction, just made it through the drilling and then finally began my auditing adventure, and wow, I wasn’t prepared. This IS what I had been searching for. The missing piece. Suddenly everything began to make sense.’
Another action movie for her: Nicole was in the biggest action movie of 2018, Aquaman
Isabella – who has a brother Connor, 23, who was also adopted by Tom and Nicole – says the course has now shown her ‘without a doubt’ that the ‘tech’ of Scientology works and she is committing her life to the church.
She added: ‘The internship, for me, is what made me a Scientologist. I don’t just believe the tech works now. I know without any doubt that it does.’
Scientology was created in 1952 by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard and is based on the belief that human beings are immortal, that a person’s life experience transcends a single lifetime.
Her eldest daughter: This comes after her daughter Isabella Cruise has thanked her Hollywood star dad Tom Cruise for helping her through her Church of Scientology training. Seen in 2016
Bizarrely, Hubbard claimed that billions of extra-terrestrial beings were sent to Earth by Xenu – the dictator of the ‘Galactic Confederacy’, comprised of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth – who gathered them around volcanoes and then destroyed the aliens with hydrogen bombs.
The aliens’ souls attached themselves to chosen humans, known as thetans, who will be one day be saved from their life of spiritual harm.
Isabella went on to praise her dad Tom, 56, and claimed she would have ‘drowned in her own problems’ without the help of the ‘Top Gun’ star.
She wrote: ‘Thank you to my Dad for everything … I would have drowned in my own problems if you hadn’t been there to sup [sic] me or get me through the preliminaries. It took a whole family and an org to get me here.’
They were a power couple: Nicole and Tom seen in love in 1992; they made Days Of Thunder and Far And Away together