Actress Nicole Kidman poses for photographers during the photo call for the film The Killing Of A Sacred Deer at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 22, 2017. (Alastair Grant/Associated Press)
CANNES, France — Unveiling a new chapter in her already-considerable career, Nicole Kidman has brought four projects to Cannes this year, making her almost ubiquitous at the French Riviera festival.
“I’m at that place in my life where I’m trying to pretend I’m 21 and starting my career,” Kidman, who turns 50 next month, told reporters on Monday. “I want to try new things and support the filmmakers I believe in.”
Kidman’s projects at Cannes include Yorgos Lanthimos’s brutally dark family comedy “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” which premiered Monday. On Sunday, the actress’ ”How to Talk to Girls at Parties” – a 1970s punk-alien romantic romp by John Cameron Mitchell – debuted.
Still to come is Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled,” a female-perspective remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film, and the second season of Jane Campion’s acclaimed series “Top of the Lake,” in which she plays a character she’s described as a “radical feminist lesbian.”
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