by Nathaniel R
We've seen set photos but this is the first official image from Annapurna of Nicole Kidman in Destroyer, her LAPD drama and suspected second Oscar bid. She plays Erin Bell, a woman haunted by her past when she was undercover with a criminal gang...
Nicole is reportedly in every single scene (YAS) despite richly talented co-stars like Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan, and Bradley Whitford. Director Karyn Kusama wanted her to be a woman who "wears her ugliness on the outside."
Nicole filming a scene
Sebastian Stan on set
The film is due in theaters for Christmas, because everyone loves a traumatic character study for the holidays! We love Nicole Kidman (as you well know) but we hope this doesn't mean that De-Glam is back as an Oscar tactic. We lived through far too many years of actresses downplaying their innate glamour and unreal beauty as a gimmick to win "SHE TRANSFORMS!" praise. We've been spared it for awhile but it's always lurking, ready to attack Oscar ballots again. The tactic goes way way back to gorgeous Olivia de Havilland as the 'plain' spinster of The Heiress (1949) and Grace Kelly as a regular housewife WITH GLASSES (*screams in terror*) in The Country Girl (1954). We've been spared it for awhile but its last truly successful blaze of glory was the one-two-three punch of Kidman-Theron-Swank (02-04) all with either makeup prosthetics to make them less attractive or damaged in some way or no makeup at all or whatnot. Deglam is always out there lurking, ready to strike Best Actress Oscar shortlists whenever you let your glamour-loving guard down.
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