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Nicole Kidman: 'I Would Be a Terrible Director', Plans to Stick to Producing


Nicole Kidman has no desire to be a director. Instead, she wants to stick to acting and prodcing: "I would be a terrible director," she says

A director has to make choices, and that’s not my strong suit,” Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter Saturday on red carpet at the American Film Institute, where she was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award. Nicole Kidman also shouted out directors she’s worked with in the past, including Jane Campion, Yorgos Lanthimos, Phillip Noyce, Gus Van Sant, and Lars von Trier. Kidman’s laundry list of film and television roles also includes 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, 2003’s Cold Mountain, 2002’s The Hours, starring as Lucille Ball in 2021’s Being the Ricardos opposite Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, 2019’s Bombshell, 2018’s Aquaman, 2023’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, 2018’s Boy Erased, 2018’s Destroyer, 2017’s The Beguiled, 2017’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 2016’s Lion, 2014’s Paddington, 2008’s Australia, 2007’s The Golden Compass, 2005’s Bewitched, 2002’s Panic Room, 1998’s Practical Magic, 1995’s Batman Forever, 1992’s Far and Away, and 1990’s Days of Thunder.

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