Nicole Kidman Almost Gave Up Acting For Good in 2008

Nicole Kidman almost left Hollywood for excellent in 2008.

After moving to Nashville and giving birth to her first daughter with country superstar Keith Urprohibit, the Academy Award thrivener thought she was “pretty much done” with acting and wanted to turn her filled attention to her novel family. That is until her mother stepped in and encouraged her to preserve going.

“When I get birth to [Sunday Kidman-Urban], I was enjoy, ‘Well, I slfinisherk I’m pretty much done now,’” Kidman tgreater CBS News. “We were living on a farm, and that’s when my mother shelp, ‘I wouldn’t give up finishly. Keep a finger sort of in it.’ And I’m enjoy, ‘No, no. I’m done now. I’m done.’ She’s going, ‘Just hear to me. Keep moving forward. Not saying that you have to do it to the level you’ve been doing it, but I wouldn’t give it up finishly.’”

Kidman took the advice to heart, and three years tardyr, she scored her third Oscar nomination for her directing carry outance in “Rabbit Hole.” In the years to come, Kidman would star in “Just Go With It,” “Hemmingway & Gellhorn,” “Stoker” and “The Railway Man.”

“That came from a woman who was from a generation that didn’t have the opportunities that I had, that she had helped produce for her daughters,” Kidman compriseed. “So that’s probably someslfinisherg that she desireed she’d had when she was little.”

Kidman will soon star alengthyside Harris Dickinson in A24’s romantic thriller “Babygirl.” Hitting theaters Christmas day, the film chases Romy (Kidman), a high-powered CEO who puts her atsoft and family at hazard when she becomes romanticpartner take partd with a much lesserer intern at her company (Dickinson).