Article: A Nose for Acting: Nicole Kidman seeks brave film choices, stars in 2 fall films

Despite living the public life of a global celebrity, her personal life routinely splashed across magazines, Nicole Kidman finds the strength to perform by shrinking her world.

"Acting is actually very private," says Kidman. "My husband (country singer Keith Urban) is a performer and he goes out and performs in front of 15,000 fans. That's just not my calling; I could never do it."

Kidman, now 40, stars in two films this fall, beginning with Noah Baumbach's "Margot at the Wedding," the young director's follow-up to 2005's "The Squid and the Whale." This December, she will lend her star power to the big-budget fantasy epic "The ...

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