Kidman has since worked with auteur after auteur. When certain directors call, she doesn’t even read the script before saying yes: she gleefully signed onto Lars von Trier’s 2003 avant-garde thriller Dogville; Yorgos Lanthimos’ unsettling 2017 drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer; and Robert Eggers’ bloody 2022 fable, The Northman.

Oscar-winning star Nicole Kidman has worked with female filmmakers on at least 19 occasions since 2017, surpassing her goal to work with a woman director every 18 months since the #MeToo movement. Talking to Time that first-time female directors are saddled with the undue pressure to “be perfect” in their debut outings,