{"id":10521,"date":"2021-01-12T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=183948"},"modified":"2021-01-13T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:08:31","slug":"nicole-kidman-the-undoing","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/nicole-kidman-the-undoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman: &#8220;My Immune System Doesn&#8217;t Know The Difference Between Acting And Truth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_183950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183950\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-183950\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/THE-UNDOING.png\" alt=\"Nicole Kidman\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starring <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/nicole-kidman-learning-italian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicole Kidman<\/a> and Hugh Grant, thriller television series <em>The Undoing\u00a0<\/em>has already garnered awards season buzz following its debut in October 2020. But according to the Australian actress, the success has come at a real cost and admits that production took a toll on her mental and physical health.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Mark Maron on his <em>WTF <\/em>Podcast, Kidman said, &#8220;I went down for a week because your immune system doesn&#8217;t know the difference between acting and truth when you&#8217;re doing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Undoing <\/em>follows an affluent therapist Grace Fraser (played by Kidman) and her family in New York and a twisted turn after it is learned that the husband ,Jonathan Fraser (Grant), could be responsible for a heinous crime. The modern day &#8216;whodunit&#8217; plot is injected with drama, secrets and lies as the mental health of the Fraser family is quickly unraveled. Viewers are immediately enthralled in the make-believe universe &#8211; I watched all six episodes in one evening.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Undoing: Official Teaser | HBO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BqeQVi1nPqs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn <em>The Undoing<\/em> it kind of happened where I was suddenly in this place of&#8230; there was sort of a disquietedness to my personality, where I was uneasy and there was duress on who I was,&#8221; she tells Maron.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time Nicole Kidman has looked to method acting either. In 2017, the actress told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2017\/03\/big-little-lies-nicole-kidman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> of the pain she used to endure on the set of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/reese-witherspoon-and-nicole-kidman-talk-big-little-lies-season-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Little Lies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>In the same year, Miles Teller revealed to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/subscribe\/news\/1\/?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a&amp;dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2Fhow-miles-tellers-brush-with-death-gave-him-perspective-and-passion-for-only-the-brave%2Fnews-story%2Fdcd4022bd421abbd2746218cdb89b24b&amp;memtype=anonymous&amp;mode=premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that the actress would ignore him on set to develop a similar relationship to their characters in\u00a0<em>Rabbit Hole.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ByEUqgdphjG\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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