Australian actress, Nicole Kidman has admitted that in many ways, her marriage to Hollywood heavyweight, Tom Cruise protected her from sexual harassment.
Kidman said this in an essay written for the New York Magazine.
In the essay, the actress examined her own influence in the industry and how it was able to allow her to take on projects like ‘Big Little Lies’ (which she co-Produced) and how taking on projects such as her latest one, Destroyer, showed her just how much more power she might need.
“‘Destroyer’ was hard to get made,” Kidman said. “You have a female director, Karyn Kusama. You have me in a lead role as an avenging undercover cop who looks the way I look in that movie — not glamorous. It’s about a very complicated, angry woman. People are not going, ‘We can’t wait to make this film!’”
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The Australia actress also claimed that she had her #MeToo moments a couple of times in her career but she declined to give specific examples
“Do I want to expose them in an article? No. Do they come out in my work? Absolutely,” Kidman said. “I’m open and raw…I want to have my well of experience and emotion tapped into, used — and I’m not just talking about sexual harassment. I’m talking about loss, death, the full array of life. But it has to be by the right people so it’s not abused again.”
She was very open about her relationship with Tom Cruise whom she married early and explained how that protected her from a lot of the fates that affected her colleagues.
“I got married very young, but it definitely wasn’t power for me — it was protection,” Kidman said. “I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed. I would work, but I was still very much cocooned. So when I came out of it at 32, 33, it’s almost like I had to grow up.”