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‘The more relaxed you are, the better you are as a human’: Nicole Kidman on Kubrick, sharks and risk-taking

The Oscar-winning American-Australian actor answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Jackman and Naomi Watts

The 57-year-old Australian megastar is talking about Amelia Dimoldenberg, the comedian and host of the video series Chicken Shop Date, who buttonholed her for a quick chat on the red carpet at an awards bash in London. In the erotic thriller, directed by Halina Reijn, she plays Romy, the kind of chilly protagonist we might recognise from her: a hyper-competent CEO of a robotics company with a doting husband (Antonio Banderas) and multiple swish homes. She has never been scared to take risks and defy expectations, notably when she signed up with then-husband Tom Cruise to make the 1999 erotic psychodrama Eyes Wide Shut, which would be Stanley Kubrick’s last film.

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