Nicole Kidman has revealed, for the first time, that she suffered from depression while playing Virginia Woolf on the set of 'The Hours', a role for which she won the Best Actress Oscar.
In the current landscape, mental health is one of the most talked about topics in the public sphere. Largely because of the pandemic that the world has suffered since 2020 and that has caused emotional havoc to countless people.
There are several stars who have been talking for years about giving importance to mental health, telling in the first person how they have suffered from depression or some type of disorder or problem. Thus, the last to do so has been Nicole Kidman.
The Australian actress has confessed that she lived with depression during the filming of 'The Hours', in 2003, a role for which she would end up receiving the Oscar for Best Actress.
Nicole Kidman brought to life the British writer Virginia Woolf, an essential figure in feminism and literature in the first half of the 20th century. Sadly, the author took her own life in 1941 in the River Ouse. Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman herself had to deal with her own demons and it hasn't been until now that she has revealed it.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life program, the interpreter recounted how hard it was to face that mental battle: "I wasn't in my own body," she said, referring to the alienation suffered by people suffering from depression.
"I don't know if I ever thought about how dangerous it was for her. I was very into it," she referred to the specific moment in which the playwright ended her life in the film. She also recalled the scene in question in which she showed how she carried out the suicide: "I put stones in my pocket and walked to the river again and again."
Because of how hard it was to shoot these scenes, Nicole Kidman says the film's director, Stephen Daldry, was very considerate of her because he knew what she was going through: "I think Stephen was so gentle with me because he knew."
Although the artist has not found an exact origin of this problem, she reports that she felt "out of place, out of my own body". They were not easy years for the Oscar winner, as she was divorced just two years before she was her partner for 11 years and after two children together, Tom Cruise.
These statements to British public radio are linked to the recent interview he gave to The Guardian in which Kidman delved into the support of his family and the feeling of melancholy that invades him for much of the day: "There is a lot of melancholy, right? ? I mean, when you really study melancholic people, it's very present. I have a lot of that. I think a lot of people have melancholy too, don't you think?"
