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COVER STORY
A MOTHER’S
LOVE
Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman dishes
out on her on-and off-screen roles as a mother
IMAGES BY SHUTTERSTOCK ; WORDS BY TOM SHONE | THE SUNDAY TIMES | THE INTERVIEW PEOPLE
Nicole Kidman’s two youngest
daughters get a little freaked out by
the strange women who sometimes
shows up in their kitchen. They
didn’t mind the villain from Paddington because
Paddington, is well, Paddington, and villains are
pretty cool. But the most recent woman who
showed up while mom was shooting the new
series of Top of the Lake with Jane Campion –
wild grey hair, freckles?
“I loved the way I looked in it,” Kidman says.
“It was very freeing. My kids were, like, ‘Oh my
God, you look like a witch!’ And I was, like,
‘Come on, not a witch!’ They’re used to seeing
all the different women. I morph into – these
funny women showing up in the kitchen. Yeah,
they don’t like it. It’s, ‘Where’s Mom?
Right now, mom is sitting in a private room in
the restaurant of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills,
while her husband, the country singer Keith
Urban, lays down some tracks in a studio not too
far away. Wearing a Michael Kors shirt, jeans
and Gucci loafers, Kidman has caught a break
from planning dinner and breaking up fights
between her daughters to talk to me about
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