Nicole Kidman intends to take the rest of 2025 off – after her next two projects are released, that is.
The Oscar-winning actress had a particularly busy schedule in 2024, starring in movies such as Babygirl, A Family Affair and Spellbound, as well as Expats, The Perfect Couple and season two of Lioness on TV.
However, Kidman has now revealed that she’s planning to take a break from acting in the coming months.
She will next be seen starring alongside Gael García Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen and Jude Hill in Holland, a new mystery thriller film for Amazon Prime Video, out later this month.
Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter of her workload: ‘[2025 is] actually not as crazy.
‘I was much more out there last year; this year I have Holland, I have Nine Perfect Strangers, and then I’m off for the rest of year. So, oh well!’
The acclaimed actress also served as a producer on Holland, and Mimi Cave – the film’s director – has observed that Nicole was ‘a real champion of the script and a champion of me’.
The filmmaker added: ‘She really believes in directors, so once it’s in my hands or any director’s hands, she lets you go.’
The new movie – which calls itself ‘wildly unpredictable’ and premiered at SXSW on Sunday – tells the story of the meticulous Nancy Vandergroot (Kidman), a teacher and homemaker whose picture-perfect life with her community pillar husband (Matthew Macfadyen) and son (Jude Hill) in tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles into a twisted tale.
Nancy and her colleague (Gael García Bernal) become suspicious of a secret, only to discover nothing in their lives is what it seems.
Producer Kidman also has the second season of Nine Perfect Strangers, based on Liane Moriarty’s novel, where her eccentric wellness guru Masha will welcome a new cast of characters to her retreat, including Mark Strong, Annie Murphy, Christine Baranski, Murray Bartlett and Henry Golding
Meanwhile, the hard-working star previously shared that she’s been happy to take ‘bold risks’ in her career, such as Babygirl’s explicit subject matter which saw her crowned best actress at Venice Film Festival, as it’s ‘the road I’m on’.
‘If it’s seen as a risk, I’ll take these risks. And if they’re bold risks, then I’ll take those risks, but I’m not going to hang too much on that because fear can set in. That’s very, very destructive to the expression and the desire,’ she explained to Vanity Fair.
The actress and producer, who has also further cemented her reputation for making envelope-pushing work in recent years, also conceded that working in Hollywood can be a ‘rollercoaster’ experience because ‘everything’s hard now. Actually everything’.
‘I mean, maybe not Deadpool, but there’s nothing that’s, “Oh my gosh. Yep. This is it. Greenlight, let’s go.” Or maybe it’s just the things that I do,’ she added.
‘I just think that’s the nature of what we’re dealing with now. Things are shrinking in terms of shows being done and films being made. I definitely feel it. I’m sure most people in the industry feel it.’
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