- Title: Nicole Kidman tells Cannes her rebel spirit pushes her to strange films
- Date: 22nd May 2017
- Summary: CANNES, FRANCE (MAY 22, 2017) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** VARIOUS KIDMAN ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHERS KIDMAN WALKING UP STEPS PHOTOGRAPHERS KIDMAN GOING UP STEPS KIDMAN WALKING INTO NEWS CONFERENCE WITH DIRECTOR, YORGOS LANTHIMOS JOURNALISTS TAKING PICTURES AT NEWS CONFERENCE NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English), ACTRESS, NICOLE KIDMAN, SAYING: ''I'm still in that place of - I am sorry to throw the word around - but exploring, I love to be part of the exploration of the human condition or of the world, I love to be asked to be in those things because that's just where I am at and I have always had that slightly rebel spirit where I have gone 'I don't want to conform, I want to find a way not to, and that's just who I am' - you know.'' CAMERA AT CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English), ACTRESS, NICOLE KIDMAN, SAYING: ''I've worked a lot, I don't have to work, I work because it is still my passion, it is still the way in which I express myself." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English), ACTRESS, NICOLE KIDMAN, SAYING: ''You know a lot of it is when you're an actress trying to juggle motherhood with the work that you want to do and I am fortunate in the sense that I am married to as musician so our schedules are able to be juggled and we're able to go and follow, pursue our artistic creative life as well as have a very solid home life and I keep in simple in that regard.''
- Embargoed: 5th June 2017 14:11
- Keywords: Nicole Kidman The Killing of a Sacred Deer Cannes
- Location: CANNES, FRANCE / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- City: CANNES, FRANCE / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA0016HX86KT
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- Story Text: For an A-list star who, as she says herself, does not have to work, Nicole Kidman has been pretty busy ahead of Cannes, appearing in three movies and a TV series screening at the film festival.
"I don't have to work. I work because it's still my passion it's the way in which I express myself," she told a news conference after the screening of "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" one of two Kidman movies competing for the Palme d'Or.
Kidman - whose other Cannes offerings are science fiction teenage film "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", an episode of Jane Campion's TV series "Top of the Lake" and "The Beguiled" by Sofia Coppola - said she deliberately sought out unusual projects.
That certainly applies to "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" in which she plays the mother of children mysteriously struck with paralysis, which director Yorgos Lanthimos says is a comedy, but plays out much more like a horror film.
"I love to be asked to be in those things because that's just where I am," Kidman said. "I have always had that slightly rebel spirit where I have gone: 'I don't want to conform, I want to find a way not to.' And that's just who I am."
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