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"I don't have to work. I work because it’s still my passion,
it’s the way in which I express myself," she told a news
conference after the screening of "The Killing of a Sacred
Deer", one of two Kidman movies competing for the Palme d'Or.
Kidman -- whose other Cannes offerings are science fiction
teenage film "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", an episode of
Jane Campion's TV series "Top of the Lake" and "The Beguiled" by
Sofia Coppola -- said she sought unusual projects.
"I want to support people who are trying different things or
have a very, very unique filmmaking style," she said.
That certainly applies to "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" in
which she plays the mother of children mysteriously struck with
paralysis, which director Yorgos Lanthimos says is a comedy, but
plays out much more like a horror film.
"I love to be asked to be in those things because that's just
where I am," Kidman said. "I have always had that slightly rebel
spirit where I have gone: 'I don't want to conform, I want to
find a way not to.' And that's just who I am."
The Cannes Film Festival runs until Sunday.
(Editing by Catherine Evans)
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