1) Nicole Kidman embraces the “simplicity” of country life on the 45 hectare New South Wales property she bought for $6.5m in 2008, in which she does her chores in Kors (Michael). Her floor-length white nightgown is a world away from the “vintage black flapper dress” she wore to her high-school formal.
2) Kidman is a friend of the animals. She owns six alpacas, a herd of Black Angus cows, collects eggs from the hen house (in the nightie) and makes her own jam (probably not in the nightie). Her childhood cat was called Gregory and her spirit animal is an otter.
3) She might have played the baddie in Paddington recently, but when it comes to kids TV, she’s a fan of the cuter characters. Kidman can do spot-on impersonations of Tweety Bird and Little Quacker, and her favourite Sesame Street resident is Snuffleupagus.
4) Like every redhead, she has a love-hate relationship with the sun. Her favourite phone app is the weather app and her favourite place to hang out in Sydney is the beach but she clearly belongs to the slip-slop-slap generation, advising all visitors to the city to wear sunscreen. Your mate Baz Lurhmann got there first, Nic.
5) Kidman adores “the love, the joy, the purpose” of having children but that doesn’t mean they don’t still leave their toys lying around the house for her to trip over when Vogue comes round. Elegantly.
6) As far as alternative careers go, she would have liked to have been a scientist finding a cure for cancer or an opera singer (check out the grand piano in her front room). Yet her favourite music makers of all time are Australian rockers AC/DC and INXS and her favourite other four-letter words are “shit” and “G’day”. Onya!
7) Kidman has eclectic tastes in food. She like truffles on her pizza but keeps Lipton tea in her guest cottage (which any Brit will try and tell you barely counts as tea). She likes warm homemade bread with reggiano but dislikes ham.
8) She wishes more people had seen her 2004 film, Birth, the supernatural thriller by British director Jonathan Glazer in which she shared a bath with a 10-year-old boy. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw didn’t think it sucked either, praising the shot “held continuously for what seems like five minutes on Kidman’s magnificently stricken face at a classical concert, while she absorbs the awful possibility that her husband has come back from the dead”.
9) According to Kidman, the best way to decompress is to “make love”. Also no one gets any sleep on her husband Keith Urban’s tour bus. “Being on top of each other” is the best thing about it, she says.
10) She’s not averse to a spot of danger, having jumped out of a plane, raced around a car track at 200 miles an hour and scuba dived with sharks. But Kidman’s “the Pool Shark”, which she proudly proclaims as her nickname on the farm.
