From her "witchy" looks on 'Practical Magic' to her Michael Kors suit in the iconic AMC commercial, Nicole Kidman has undoubtedly stolen our hearts with her on-screen style! Nicole recalls how her yellow gown for the 1997 Oscars was created just for her, "going with the flow" for the 2016 Met Gala and so much more.
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00:00And I love it when makeup artists go,
00:01I'm just going to give you a lip that looks like you've just
00:04been kissing and you've been slightly bitten on your lip.
00:07Yum.
00:08Hi, Allure.
00:09I'm Nicole Kidman, and I am here to break down
00:12some of my iconic looks for you.
00:21It's your doctor, Dr. Lewicki.
00:23I don't think he's actually seen me before.
00:25Days of Thunder.
00:27Oh my god, I was so excited.
00:29I couldn't believe it.
00:31I met Tony Scott, I met Tom Cruise,
00:33I met everyone at Paramount.
00:35I was like, this is big time.
00:38We went to Daytona, and we started shooting,
00:42and it was spring break, and I'm like, gosh, this is America?
00:46Why did I straighten my hair?
00:50I love my hair there.
00:51That is my natural hair.
00:53Isn't that crazy?
00:54So little girls out there, embrace the curl.
00:57Do not follow in my steps and straighten your hair.
01:01I look like my daughters.
01:03Well, that makes sense.
01:04There's certain things you can get that when you blow dry and scrunch your hair, and you just...
01:12The curl comes back in abundance.
01:14I can do that to my hair still, but it needs to be kind of humid, and I need to use the right product.
01:19But it was very humid down there.
01:22Thus, I have very wild curly hair.
01:24I can't believe it.
01:27I'm in love.
01:29Moulin Rouge.
01:30Was working with Baz Luhrmann on Vogue Australia, what got you the role of Satine?
01:34I think that sort of was part of the thing that got me the job.
01:38I'd seen Strictly Ballroom in Australia, so I'd reached out to him and just said I really loved it.
01:44Not just the film, I'd seen the stage production, and we'd stayed in contact,
01:50and then this photoshoot with Vogue came up, and then he came and saw me in the Blue Room.
01:54The combination of the photoshoot, and us just staying in contact, and then the performance in the Blue Room.
02:01And he sent me a dozen long-stemmed red roses in a white box, very Baz.
02:07And he said, will you be my Satine?
02:09I said, but I can't sing!
02:12We did a three-month workshop, and over the process of that three-month workshop,
02:17we danced, we sang, we workshopped the script.
02:20Baz was trying things.
02:22So, yeah, we did live singing, which was terrifying, but Ewan and I had rehearsed so much.
02:28So by the time you get on set, it's like, oh, we've done this before.
02:32We did a lot of makeup tests, some of them are even in the film,
02:36because a lot of the way in which he works, which I've used as well now,
02:40when you do a makeup test, rather than wasting time just standing there,
02:44you actually create the character on film, you watch it back, you play around.
02:49Hair colour was explored, costuming, everything.
02:53And I've subsequently seen the show on Broadway and seen other people playing Satine,
02:57and it's just fantastic to have been the originator of the character.
03:01I just love to be Satine.
03:05I'd go back any time.
03:06My life has been stolen from me.
03:14I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in.
03:16I'm living a life I have no wish to live in.
03:20The hours, what's there to say about Virginia Woolf?
03:24I think it took two and a half, three hours, yeah, to do the prosthetics.
03:28Obviously, they'd be able to do that a lot.
03:30I think they'd be able to do that far more quickly now.
03:34But that was, you know, it was old school time.
03:38So that was that.
03:40And I would just sit there and I would listen to music,
03:43or I would listen to her speaking, or I would listen to,
03:47and there's not very many recordings of Virginia,
03:49I would just sort of have to zone out, which is kind of a great way to start the day,
03:54honestly, because you just have to start in a relaxed state of mind.
04:00And strangely enough, I also would roll my own cigarettes,
04:03because that's what Virginia smoked all the time.
04:07And I have this really weird thing where if my character smokes,
04:11this happened with Lucille, when I played Lucille Ball as well,
04:15I smoke for the character.
04:17And then the minute I'm done, I don't touch a cigarette.
04:20And I have no desire.
04:22We're character actors, and people always go,
04:25oh, well, you know, she did the nose or this and that.
04:28But that's our job as an actor.
04:30We're there not to present ourselves.
04:33We're there to present a character.
04:39Met Gala. Magical dress.
04:43After an 11-year break from attending the Met Gala,
04:45what brought me back?
04:46Anna.
04:50Anna will always bring me back.
04:52I've known Anna pretty much my whole career.
04:55I love her, and I will do anything to support her.
04:58And also, I just thought this was the most glorious gown to wear.
05:03You know, it felt really, really special and celestial,
05:07and it was easy to wear, and it was fun.
05:09I really like the braids too.
05:11A tallow who did my hair decided on the braids.
05:15I'm actually kind of, I go with the flow.
05:18I'm like, okay, what are we doing?
05:20Show me, mold me, make me, because I'm not the expert.
05:25The other people around me are the expert.
05:27I'll weigh in, but I'm very interested in always broadening and expanding what I think.
05:33Because if you stay only in your lane and what you like, then you're going to stay exactly the same.
05:39That's great for some people.
05:40It doesn't really interest me.
05:42He's just so intense.
05:43I mean, he talks about our relationship in terms of centuries.
05:50Sometimes we just stay up all night.
05:52Practical magic.
05:53The genesis and the root of it is the sisters.
05:56And then that expanded into the witchcraft and the magic of the film.
06:01But there's an emotional core, which is the sisters.
06:05And I love Sandy.
06:06And so the natural kind of sisterhood that we have, I think, is reflected in the film.
06:12It was just a really fun film to make as well.
06:16I remember we would throw parties and we would hang out a lot.
06:20We would go and dance salsa.
06:22I threw a party once and it was sort of Moroccan themed.
06:25And we had all sorts of, I mean, we just had fun.
06:28And I think the fun, you feel that in the film.
06:31And then you feel the strength of the sisters.
06:35She's just Jillian.
06:36I created Jillian.
06:37The redheaded witch.
06:39Weren't you burned for that?
06:40There's talks about Practical Magic 2.
06:42There is.
06:43It's definitely coming to fruition rapidly.
06:46Hold on to your husbands.
06:48Hang on to your husbands, girls.
06:55Academy Awards.
06:57I was actually doing Eyes Wide Shut at the time.
07:00I was in the UK.
07:01And so I would go to Paris on the weekends a lot.
07:04And that's how I built my relationship with John Galliano.
07:07And I didn't realize that it was sort of such a bold move for the Academy Awards at that time.
07:14It just seemed like an exquisite gown and creation.
07:19It was made for me and made for my body.
07:23It was just fantastic.
07:25And I still have it.
07:26I own it.
07:27And I love it when makeup artists go,
07:29I just want to give you a lip that looks like you've just been eating berries.
07:32Isn't that nice?
07:33Or the other one is, I'm just going to give you a lip that looks like you've just been kissing
07:38and you've been slightly bitten on your lip.
07:41Yum.
07:43And it was smashed down the back.
07:45I mean, when you see the dress, your jaw drops.
07:49All of the embroidery.
07:50I mean, it's so intricately, beautifully made.
07:54It just seemed like, wow.
07:55You know, because I grew up with a grandmother who was a seamstress.
07:58My mother was a seamstress.
08:00They could embroider.
08:01They could knit.
08:01They could sew.
08:02They could do everything.
08:03I was the child that had the couture clothes.
08:06But the couture was made by my grandmother and my mother.
08:10And I would have little faux collars.
08:12And I would have little coats.
08:13And I would wear gloves.
08:14And I would wear little hats.
08:15And I was so, I was that child.
08:17And it makes me feel loved.
08:19This is the weirdest thing.
08:20So it makes me feel loved when I'm standing there in a fitting
08:23and you're putting a dress on me and you're fitting it to me and you care.
08:26Because that, I had a grandmother and a mother that,
08:29that's how they express their love to me.
08:31So there's some deep psychology for you.
08:36Being the Ricardos, inspiring.
08:45Like a high wire act because it's Aaron Sorkin's dialogue.
08:49Mixing in with, I'm not playing Lucy.
08:53I'm playing Lucille Ball.
08:54Very different.
08:55But it was the biggest challenge really of my career.
08:58And it was so difficult and it was so fulfilling.
09:02It's so beautifully written, that role.
09:05And to have been nominated for it and acknowledged in that way,
09:09I'm so grateful.
09:10Because the work that it took technically,
09:13as well as emotionally to combine the two, was enormous.
09:18There was a physical transformation, but Aaron did not want that.
09:21He's like, I want to see you.
09:23I'm not interested in the, oh my gosh,
09:25we've pulled off the feet of making her look exactly like Lucy.
09:28He wanted the essence of her.
09:30So vocally we committed to that.
09:33But in terms of the actual look, he's like, that's not what I'm looking for.
09:36Otherwise I'd do it all with AI, you know, we're not doing that.
09:40Lucy Arnaz is an amazing support through it.
09:43And she was a lifeline for me.
09:45And she gave me so much confidence when we first screened it.
09:48And people accepted me in the role.
09:53And I remember walking into, I think it was in Westwood and there'd been the first screening of it.
09:59I literally started crying.
10:00So that shows you how much pressure I felt.
10:03And you know, she was of that era where you dressed, you were a lady, you know,
10:08you came in, but boy, as I always say, she was the smartest person in the room, male or female.
10:15I'm just grateful I got to play her.
10:17We love you, Lucille Ball, you carved the way for us.
10:20We come to this place for magic, the AMC commercial.
10:26Are we still talking about that?
10:30I'm very, very glad to be able to say that we did that during COVID.
10:35The people that did it with me, there was Billy Ray who wrote it and the cinematographer who directed
10:41it, he and his brother.
10:43We all just were like, okay, we can do this.
10:46Let's quit, buckle down.
10:47We'll do it in a day.
10:48And let's, let's do this because we owe this to our industry and to cinema.
10:52And that was that.
10:53And it was the purest of intentions.
10:56It kind of took on it a life of its own.
10:58Thank God.
11:00I never thought it would take on this life, but, but I'm grateful that it did.
11:05It was a Michael Kors suit.
11:07My stylist, Julia Von Baum was just like, here, this is it.
11:10And there was no sort of overthinking of anything.
11:12It was just very matter of fact and direct.
11:16And that was that.
11:17Have you seen your outfit immortalized as a lounge fly backpack?
11:20Oh my gosh.
11:23Are you kidding?
11:24That's amazing.
11:26I'm still, see, I'm still deeply connected to AMC theater.
11:30I go, I pay money and I go and I see my commercial in the AMC.
11:37But then I always go and see movies.
11:39I'm a paying member of the public who goes to the movie theaters with huge enthusiasm.
11:45And I love it.
11:47How did you get in here?
11:49I came in through the door.
11:54I'm Masha.
11:56Nine Perfect Strangers.
11:58How would you describe Masha?
11:59What do you want to know?
12:03Masha is a healer with her own trauma and her own troubles.
12:09But she's actually there to help.
12:12That was really fun to play.
12:14We also shot that during COVID in Byron Bay.
12:18And the show has that dream quality.
12:20And the whole thing was like a dream.
12:22It was Noriko, my makeup artist, who's Japanese, was like,
12:26I really think this is the feel and it felt right.
12:31Then we slowly put together the clothes and the movement and vocally.
12:37It's not like it happens where you're mapping it out.
12:41It's more like it starts to unfurl.
12:45It gets discovered as you're in the rehearsal process.
12:48And the whole thing just eventuates that way.
12:51How is Masha reinventing herself for season two?
12:54Does she have completely different hair?
12:55She needs to for a reason.
12:59It's a crazy ride.
13:02Very different to the things I've done.
13:03Thank you for having me, Alua.
13:06I had the best time doing this shoot.
13:08Thank you for existing.
13:10I get lots of tips from you.
13:12So keep it up.