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The Oscar winner swaps her blonde locks for a
short bob and rugged style to play Erin Bell, a detective whose
past continues to haunt her years after infiltrating a criminal
gang undercover in an operation with devastating consequences.
"I just felt her and I felt sadness and I felt pain for her,"
Kidman said at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday.
"I thought there was a restlessness and a complexity to her
anger which I thought I had never seen on screen, particularly
in the form of a female."
The 51-year-old is no stranger to changing her looks for roles,
such as when she played Virginia Woolf in "The Hours", for which
she won an Oscar.
Critics have praised her performance in "Destroyer" and
described her appearance as "almost unrecognizable".
"The way I look and behave in the film is the result of a lot of
trauma," Kidman said. "That's the beauty of cinema, you use the
image, you don't always have to have the words."
Director Karyn Kusama described Bell as a "really complicated
human" dealing with regret, guilt and shame. A team of
hairdressers and makeup artists worked together to transform
Kidman's looks.
"We talked a lot about sun damage and lack of sleep and drinking
too much and not eating well and we landed at a very extreme
version of all of that lack of self-care," Kusama said.
(Reporting By Jayson Mansaray; Additional reporting by Hanna
Rantala; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Daniel
Wallis)
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