‘Awful’: Kidman forced to stop mid-interview

The Aussie star shared her shock before the interviewer was forced to step in and come to her aid mid-interview.

Nicole Kidman’s fan base also extends into the insect world, at least going by how many of them swarmed the star at her recent glitzy premiere.

Kidman was at the Los Angeles premiere for her new show The Perfect Couple, starring Meghann Fahy and Ishaan Khatter, when she became the target of some annoyingly clingy critters.

As she chatted with E! News, a bug was discovered in the Oscar winner’s hair, and she didn’t appear particularly pleased.

Kidman appeared shocked as the critters begun landing on her. Picture: Facebook

“This is awful,” the Australian star said as a journalist tried to remove the tiny terror from her blonde mane.

“What is going on here? We’re being swarmed!” she uttered.

Kidman wasn’t the only one to notice the critters, with her co-star Fahy exclaiming during another interview: “This is unhinged!”

“We got to leave LA,” she joked while spotting another bug had landed on her.

Kidman takes on the role of renowned novelist Greer Garrison Winbury in Netflix’s new six-part series.

The mini-series, based on the book by Elin Hildebrand, is a murder mystery set at the wedding of a wealthy couple’s son in Nantucket. But when a body is found, secrets are revealed, and everyone becomes a murder suspect.

The showrunner, Jenna Lamia, shared with The Hollywood Reporter how she had to change the name of a lead role, which Eve Hewson plays, to Amelia from Celeste, which is the original name of the character in Elin Hilderbrand’s novel.

Kidman was forced to pause the interview as the journalist attempted to remove the bug from her hair. Picture: Facebook

Lamia did the change “just to avoid any potential confusion” or heat that may come towards the series because Kidman, 57, played a character of the same name, Celeste, in HBO’s Big Little Lies.

Bizarrely, every episode of the new Netflix murder mystery features a 30-second sequence showing the cast locked in a choreographed dance number set to Meghan Trainor’s song Criminals.

Fans have taken to social media to share their confusion over the sequence, with one user writing: “Can’t stop thinking about how the new Nicole Kidman series on Netflix opens with the entire cast doing a synchronised dance to a Meghan Trainor song.”

“They open EVERY episode with this. and then at the end they do it again and the DIRECTOR joins in,” another shared.

Originally published as ‘Awful’: Kidman forced to stop mid-interview