Nicole Kidman: 'I have yet to deliver my best performance'
Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman is certain she is yet to deliver a truly great performance, and believes her best work is still to come.
The Australian actress, who won an Academy Award for her role in The Hours in 2003, began her career determined to star in a genuinely great film and believes she is still to deliver a really exemplary rendering of a role.
She tells Britain's Seven magazine, "I had huge expectations. You
start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You
want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great
movie. I want to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great
epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard
to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role.
"Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But
what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and
to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep my
alive.
"I still don't think I've done my best work... I want somebody to
discover a great performance in me. I still don't think I've given
a great performance and I'm waiting."
The actress' latest film, Grace of Monaco, was panned by critics
when it premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival earlier
this month (May14), and over the weekend, Kidman revealed she
turned down the chance to play Hanna Schmitz in 2008's The Reader
because she was pregnant with her daughter Sunday Rose.
Kate Winslet went on to win a Best Actress Oscar for the role.