Actress Nicole Kidman takes the cover of Vogue Australia Magazine‘s February 2024 edition lensed by fashion photographer Steven Klein. In charge of styling was Christine Centenera, with set design from Montana Pugh, prop styling by Hook Props, and production by Travis Kiewel and That One Production. Beauty is work of hair stylist Akki, makeup artist Jenna Kuchera for Pat McGrath Labs, and manicurist Honey. For her ninth Australian Vogue cover, Nicole is wearing Gucci dress, Cartier jewelry, and Gentle Monster glasses.
You can become and try different things, all the time, which is what excites me. I don’t even see it as reinvention. I think it’s more like different facets that you discover that are in existence, but you are attuned to the discovery of them. Yes, I remain very open and still very passionate about what I do, and curious. And those elements haven’t been dampened. You can either become more rigid as you become older, but you can also become more free.
I’ve been on these quite intense journeys with these women recently, which has been fantastic. And I feel very safe with them. I have a very close relationship with my sister and my daughters and my nieces and my mother and my aunts. I’m very, very comfortable with sharing everything with them and hearing the way they see things and their perspective… It’s a very, very powerful place of protection for me with women.
I wish expectations weren’t there, because I think the idea of having to fulfil an expectation — that doesn’t feel good. That feels frightening. I don’t want to be a role model for anyone, I’m not interested in that. I’m interested in artistically exploring what it means to be a human being…the idea of life and death and love and pain and joy. I keep a lot of distance between me and what everyone thinks or wants or how I’m meant to behave. I try to keep a shield around me.
Nicole Kidman’s new series Expats is streaming now on Prime Video.
Photography © Steven Klein fod Vogue Australia, read more at vogue.com.au
