Kidman has since worked with auteur after auteur. When certain directors call, she doesn’t even read the script before saying yes: she gleefully signed onto Lars von Trier’s 2003 avant-garde thriller Dogville; Yorgos Lanthimos’ unsettling 2017 drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer; and Robert Eggers’ bloody 2022 fable, The Northman.

Nicole Kidman receives one compliment so often that she's grown to dislike it. The Practical Magic actress recently spoke to Time Magazine about the flattering remark that puts her under a lot of pressure,