When Nicole Kidman was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, she spent a big portion of her speech thanking the administrators whom she’s labored with all through the years. The respect for the job, although, doesn’t she imply has any need to step behind the digicam herself.
“I really feel like I’d be a horrible director as a result of I at all times have so many concepts. A director has to make decisions, and that’s not my sturdy swimsuit,” Kidman advised The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday evening on the AFI crimson carpet, noting {that a} producer’s duties rather more align together with her pursuits. “I’m excellent at being passionate and supporting the voices and studying a script and going ‘I really like this script,’ or seeing any person and going, ‘I really like this actor, I really like this director, how do I assist them?’ They usually perhaps have accomplished nothing [before], however I need to get behind them. That’s what I really like doing; it excites me, and it actually makes me joyful. I really like shining the sunshine on different folks or serving to to do this.”
By way of her Blossom Movies, Kidman has produced tasks together with Massive Little Lies, 9 Good Strangers, The Undoing, Love & Demise, Particular Ops: Lioness and Expats.
Contained in the tribute occasion, the star elaborated on that need to shine a lightweight on others, telling the gang contained in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood: “There’s so many extra thrilling younger administrators and voices which might be utterly unique and have to be heard, they usually have lots to say. We have to give them an opportunity to say it and to listen to them, and I’m right here, I’m able to roll up my sleeves. I’m right here at all times to assist these voices.” Kidman additionally listed off the names of all of her earlier administrators and thanked them individually throughout her acceptance speech.
Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman, Naomi Watts, Zoe Saldaña, Aaron Sorkin, Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Joey King, Mike Myers and husband Keith City had been all readily available to honor Kidman on the occasion, as she weighed in on receiving a life achievement award at simply 56.
“Once they advised me that Meryl acquired it at across the similar time I used to be like, ‘OK, that’s OK, that’s cool,’” Kidman advised THR. “However on the similar time you simply go, I’ll take no matter you give me as a result of when it comes to the work, I simply love doing the work.”