Nicole Kidman talks about love and balancing her work and family life in the May issue of WSJ. Magazine.
The Australian beauty has been married to Keith Urban for almost 14 years and the 52-year-old Oscar winner fondly remembers the moment they fell in love.
‘He’s pretty much the flip side of neurotic.’ Kidman gushes of the ‘mellow’ musician who she met in 2005.
Hollywood beauty: Nicole Kidman talks about love and her family life in the new issue of WSJ. Magazine
The couple met by chance at an industry event and he took her for a ride on his Harley-Davidson to Woodstock, New York.
The New Zealand born crooner topped off the date with a picnic in the woods. Kidman reminisced, ‘I was a goner—I mean, c’mon.’
Now, with two daughters together; Sunday Rose, 11, and Faith Margaret, nine, keeping her family close knit is her number one priority.
‘I’ll pass on films,’ The Bombshell star explains, adding that sometimes she’ll select projects that shoot on the East Coast when her kids are not at school or take supporting tole parts so she can balance work and family time.
‘I was a goner—I mean, c’mon’: ‘Nicole tells WSJ. Magazine that husband Keith Urban took her for a ride on his Harley-Davidson when they first met
‘He’s pretty much the flip side of neurotic’: Nicole calls her husband of almost 14 years ‘mellow’
‘We have a system worked out to keep the family together,’ she says. ‘When Keith’s not touring, it’s much easier. He’ll be on tour next year, and then I just don’t work as much. Literally—it will become imbalanced, and we will change it.
She adds, ‘We don’t have the answers, but the one thing we do know is that we will not jeopardize us.’
And what projects Kidman picks can vary widely, as she explains, ‘My taste is really out there. There’s no sense. I’m a complete random nonconformist,
Screen icon: The 52-year-old actress stuns in a pared down look for the WSJ. photoshoot wearing black and white clothes
‘People are like, “What are you doing?” I’m like, “I don’t know what I’m doing.” I’ll very much go on the record saying I have no idea what I’m doing.’
Kidman goes back to her roots in the accompanying photoshoot, showing off her natural curly locks.
She models a pared down look with a natural makeup look and wears a selection of elegant black and white outfits.
Her Hollywood career spans four decades but Kidman admits her sometimes intense movie roles can still take an emotional toll.
‘Certain things penetrate psychologically in a really deep way. There is just no getting around that, and I wish there was,’ she says.
‘I haven’t been taught it. I have tried to learn it. I don’t have the ability. It does take a toll on my health, and it takes a toll on my spirit,’
‘We have a system worked out to keep the family together,’ Kidman says, explaining she’ll pass on movie roles if it means the family will be apart too long
‘Certain things penetrate psychologically in a really deep way. There is just no getting around that, and I wish there was,’ she says of the toll certain movie roles have on her emotionally
The Hawaii-born star says she copes by writing down her experiences and practicing meditation, taught to her by her psychologist father.
‘I’m always trying to dig in. The unfortunate part of it is that the feelings are intense. I wish I could be the kind of person that’s like, eh,’ she says, shrugging. ‘I have an unbelievably understanding husband and children—the little ones who are going like, “Why are you looking like that, Mummy?” [But] their ability to understand artistically is very deep already.’
WSJ. Magazine’s May Issue, hits newsstands May 2.
Back to her roots: The actress reveals her naturally curly hair in the photoshoot
Cover star: WSJ. Magazine’s May Issue, hits newsstands May 2