Nicole Kidman looks nothing like herself in her new film, Destroyer. The Aussie actress was photographed on the set of the upcoming crime flick, sporting heavy makeup, a brown wig, a drab leather jacket, bootcut jeans, and flat boots—a drastic departure from her usual, glam red carpet style.
The Oscar-winner plays LAPD detective Erin Bell, who went undercover with a cult-like gang in her early years as a cop. Years later, the gang leader re-emerges, and Bell has to "work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past," according to Deadline.
Destroyer is helmed by Karyn Kusama, the indie director behind Jennifer's Body (2009), Aeon Flux (2005), and Girlfight (2000). The project aligns with Kidman's pledge to work with a female director every 18 months, to ultimately increase the number of women filmmakers in Hollywood.
'Because that's the only way statistics will change when other women start to go, 'Oh, I'm actually going to choose only a woman now.' So every 18 months there has to be a female director in the equation,' Kidman explained to The Sydney Morning Herald in May.
She later elaborated at Cannes Film Festival, where she promoted her film The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola. "Only 4.2 percent of women directed the main motion pictures of 2016," Kidman said.'There were 4000 episodic television series last year and only 183 women directed them. That says it all.'
Even Kidman's hit TV series, Big Little Lies (which she stars in and and co-produces with Reese Witherspoon), will be helmed by a woman. Andrea Arnold (American Honey) is slated to direct the show's second season, replacing Jean-Marc Vallée, who directed Season 1.
On top of all of that, Kidman is also starring in the Rebecca Miller-directed dramedy, She Came to Me, opposite Amy Schumer.
