Why Middle Age Suits Nicole Kidman Better Than Ingenue Days

The Hollywood star is on a roll, and she brings Marie Claire inside her quiet, Nashville life.

Nicole Kidman attends the TIME 100 Gala celebrating its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People In The World at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)        (Photo credit should read ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images)
Nicole Kidman attends the TIME 100 Gala celebrating its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People In The World at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Nicole Kidman graces the October cover of Marie Claire, and the Oscar-winner opens up about her “quiet life” in the accompanying profile. It’s not exactly the stuff of Hollywood cliches.

Russell Crowe, who co-stars with Kidman in this fall’s Boy Erased, chimes in too, telling Marie Claire that he’s always found himself hypnotized by Kidman. Now more than ever.

Kidman spends most of her days in Nashville, where she and her husband Keith Urban are raising their children. Over the last several years, most notably in her Emmy-winning role in Big Little Lies, Kidman has been ubiquitous, and she sees this as a particularly emotive era of her career. “I feel probably more than I ever have. I’m incredibly sensitive to the world and to the way in which we’re all navigating together as people. Artistically, I can make statements,” she told Marie Claire.

One of the longest-running fans of Kidman’s work is Crowe, who has known her since they’re early days in Australia. “I waited a long time to be married to Nicole,” Crowe said. “We didn’t talk until a jam-packed house party in Darlinghurst… I saw we talked, but I actually don’t think I got more than a word or two out. She’s kind of held me spellbound ever since.”

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