Nicole Kidman Is Unrecognisable As She Transforms For New Film

In her new role she plays an LAPD cop 'with a past that she wears on her face'

Nicole Kidman Is Unrecognisable As She Transforms For New Film

by Phoebe Parke |
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We’ve got a first look at Nicole Kidman’s next film – a film called Destroyer where she plays LAPD police officer Erin Bell who went undercover with a gang who lived in the California desert in her 20s, and is still dealing with what took place there.

With a mop of brown hair, no makeup and two baggy jumpers – it’s a far cry from the Hollywood glamour we’re so used to seeing from Kidman.

‘We always knew that what we wanted her to look like was a real middle-aged woman with a past that she wears on her face,’ director Karyn Kusama told Vanity Fair. ‘With sun damage and sleep deprivation and stress and rage, just in her whole physical body.’

And it seems like Kidman was on board with the whole no makeup aspect of the role.

‘Ironically, she also hates being in the makeup chair,’ Kusama said. ‘She just wants to be on set working. So we had to make it as short an application as possible.’

Some think she’s angling for an Oscar nomination with this new role – the last time she won an Oscar she had undergone another drastic transformation, and donned a prosthetic nose to play Virginia Woolf in The Hours. She won Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for that role in 2003, and has been nominated twice since then – for Rabbit Hole in 2011, and Lion in 2017.

We will have to wait until December to see just how different Kidman looks in Destroyer when it’s out in cinemas.

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Most outrageous looks from The Oscars 2018

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Salma Hayek

Salma went a bit overboard with the lilac, but we're kinda obsessed.

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Blanca Blanco

Blanca Blanco caused controversy by wearing a red dress to the Golden Globes when everyone else sported black in support of Time's Up. We're feeling her Oscars outfit way more, tbh.

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Andra Day

Andra is all of us at 3am after a night out

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Emily Blunt

We're getting slight Cinderella vibes from Emily Blunt, and we're absolutely feeling it.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg absolutely killed it with this UH-MAZING floral gown.

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St Vincent

Get us a pair of those boots, stat.

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Bleona Qereti

Up there with one of the more subtle outfits on the list x

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Janelle Monae

Definitely one of the boldest (and best) on the list.

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Angela Sarafyan

We have a headache just looking at Angela's orange gown, but in a good way.

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Agnes Varda

This literally could not be more our vibe. And Agnes' sunglasses are bang on trend for S/S 2018.

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Miley Cyrus

We're not so sure about the pink zig-zag print here, but obv Miley gets away with it.

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Clare Grant

If you can't wear a long silver ruffly ensemble at the Oscars, when can you?

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Karen Gillan

This kinda looks like loads of children were set loose on with with paintbrushes, and it's definitely a vibe.

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Thaila Ayala

We kinda want this to be out festival aesthetic tbh.

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James Ivory

LITERALLY GET US A TIMOTHY CHAMELET SHIRT IMMEDIATELY.

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