NICOLE undone

She’s Australian film royalty, a critically acclaimed Hollywood heavyweight and our First Lady of country music: Nicole Kidman needs no introduction, but let us anyway. On the eve of the release of her new TV thriller, The Undoing, editor Nicky Briger meets the woman, the star, the legend

- Nicky Briger

Nicole Kidman slips into our light-flooded Lavender Bay studio in Sydney without fuss or fanfare. Dressed in track pants and a slouchy tee, her hair swept back into a tight topknot, you’d almost be forgiven for missing her entirely, except for the fact she’s nudging six foot and seems lit from within, thanks to her famed alabaster skin. She’s been up past midnight every night this week, pulling 14-hour days shooting the TV adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers, but you wouldn’t know it. She’s warm, spry and chatty as she enthusiastically sifts through a full rack of high-fashion pieces: “It feels like ages since I’ve properly dressed up. I’m excited!”