Nicole Kidman says she’s fibbed about her top all through her profession.
The actor acknowledged that she has been rounding down her top for a while throughout an interview on the “Radio Times” podcast, which got here out Tuesday.
“I say I’m 5-foot-10-1/2, but I’m really 5-foot-11,” she revealed, noting how she was as soon as advised: “You won’t have a career. You’re too tall.”
The “Big Little Lies” star mentioned that her top has been a problem from the beginning, explaining that she was virtually turned away from an audition for “Annie” when she was a only a little one.
“I had to talk my way through the door because they were measuring you when you went in!” she recalled, noting that she had been 2 inches over the 5-foot-4 top restrict.
Though she wasn’t forged, Kidman mentioned that she was grateful for whoever determined to miss her stature that day.
“I didn’t get the part,” Kidman mentioned on the podcast. “I didn’t even get a callback, but at least I got to sing four lines of ‘A Chorus Line.’”
The “Eyes Wide Shut” actor mentioned that she’s gone via her justifiable share of rejection, however added that she’s additionally skilled occasions when individuals have been prepared to “take a bet” on her — offering a lesson that she’s handed on to her three daughters.
“What I tell my daughters is that none of it matters,” she mentioned. “What matters is how you allow other people to either say yes or no to you, and whether you accept that. Inner resilience as a human being, that’s the superpower, really.”
